More great transit in the news in the past week: The Detroit Free Press’s Rochelle Riley named Atanas Ilitch one of the Heroes of Detroit’s Renaissance, explaining that he "is the one leading the charge to bring mass transit to southeast Michigan." It started with the extremely popular Foxtown Tiger Train (see the July 28 blog or Tiger press release), "but he […]
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2006 was quite an exciting year on the Detroit transit front, with momentum building and support growing – 2007 looks like it will be even better. Read our year in review and plans for 2007.
Detroit Transit 2006 – the year in review Read More »
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Interested in transit-oriented development, biking, public-private partnerships, parking management, car sharing, freight trains, smart growth, streetcars, corridor planning, new starts, or just about anything related to transit? Power Point presentations from Rail~volution, one of the nation’s top transit conferences, are now available online. Also, a number of reports were released at the 2006 Rail~Volution Conference and
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The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported recently on Illinois’ recent investment in rail transit: "Earlier this year, the Illinois Legislature nearly doubled state funding for passenger rail service, to $24 million. The money allowed Amtrak to add two daily round trips to the previous three between St. Louis and Chicago, and to offer one additional daily
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