According to the Detroit News and Associated Press: General Motors recently announced that it is more than doubling the number of its diesel-electric hybrid municipal buses on the roads, winning orders for 1,700 hybrid buses from Washington, D.C. (952 buses), Philadelphia (480 buses) and Minneapolis-St. Paul (up to 300 buses). Last month, Daimler announced it […]
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People in southeast Michigan now have a transit option to link metro Detroit to Port Huron. Effective Monday, January 28, Blue Water Area Transit (serving Port Huron) will connect with SMART. Blue Water Transit will begin new peak hour bus service from Port Huron to Macomb County (23 Mile and Gratiot), operating express Route 94
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"In the next 20 years if you don’t have it, game over." That’s what Rick Weddle, the president and CEO of North Carolina’s Research Triangle Park (RTP) said about mass transit during a recent speech at the headquarters of NextEnergy in Detroit’s TechTown. According to metromode, the speech focused on how RTP became the enormous new economy
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Check out these interesting videos about getting parking right, with world-regarded parking policy expert, UCLA Urban Planning Professor Dr. Donald Shoup, the author of The High Cost of Free Parking: – Parking Illustrated: Toy Cars And Stop-Motion Animation Show How Parking Reform Can Work – Dr. Shoup – Open Planning Project interview According to Dr.
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FYI – SMART is experiencing record ridership…numbers not seen since 1982. With the extra passengers on board, SMART drivers are asking people to exit from the rear of the bus which helps keep the buses moving. This is a change from past policy, in which SMART drivers encouraged passengers to exit from the front door.
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