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A friendly reminder tomorrow’s big summer meeting from Transportation Riders United for anyone who wants to get involved in transit issues in Southeast Michigan such as the commuter rail between Ann Arbor and Detroit or just improving DDOT/SMART bus service. For more details go here.
Tuesday (7/24), TRU will hold our big summer meeting, focused […]
Longtime Ann Arbor-area blogger “Murph” of the Common Monkeyflower has just ended his five post tenure at Metro Mode as the featured guest blogger. Having spent years studying urban planning and using Ann Arbor and the Detroit-area as the subject of his mental canvas I think he has a pretty good idea of […]
The Got Detroit blogger submits himself to experiment to see what happens if one tries to ride public transit from Bloomfield Hills to Detroit every day for a month. Hilarity ensues.
While some of us, although not near the enough of us, are occupied with the thought of future scarcity of fossil fuels there is another natural resource that is destined to become in high demand despite decreasing supply. That is water. Already much of this planet’s population lacks access to potable water, water without arsenic […]
Commuter train rolling for dollars — State boosts Howell-to-Ann …
The state has guaranteed another $1.4 million for a proposed Howell-to-Ann-Arbor commuter train line that supporters say is necessary to combat congestion on U.S. 23.
The new grant from the Michigan Department of Trans-portation was announced Monday at a meeting where supporters were talking about receiving a […]
It’s More Than Meets The Eye For GM And Its 4 ‘Transformers’
“You’re going to see these cars as the heroes. You’re not going to see the other actors,” said Dino Bernacchi, GM’s associate director of branded entertainment. “These cars are the stars, literally, in the movie.”
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The word “Camaro” is mentioned a handful of times by […]
Detroit seizes the moment to rebuild
In a region riven by city-suburban feuds over such issues as Cobo Center, bus routes and water rates, the RiverWalk shows that competing interests can and do cooperate to achieve major goals.
Urban renewal didn’t work, centrally planned large projects (like shopping mall magnate Taubman’s Riverfront Towers, the RenCen) never turn […]
Howell, a place that doesn’t necessarily bring to mind progressive thinking on public transit, has voted to support regional rail that would connect the city to Ann Arbor in the midst of construction along US-23:
The Washtenaw and Livingston Line train, nicknamed WALLY by members of the US-23 Coalition that secured funds for the feasibility study, […]
Motor City Casino to debut 60,000 SF of new gaming space June 7
WSU works with Midtown developers to attract residents to neighborhood
Willys Overland Lofts grand opening set for June 8
Recycled Treasures opens on June 16 in Hamtramck
Michigan Avenue “Downtown to Downtown” collaborative to focus on strengthening corridor
New bar, Pit Stop, occupies ground floor of Broderick […]
The International Metropolis blog which features lots of photos from both the Windsor and Detroit side of the Detroit River has recently had a lot of historical pictures from downtown Windsor from the 1940s and 1950s such as above. Back then Windsor, like Detroit and many other older cities had a lively downtown retail […]
