On Monday, top transit leaders from the Obama Administration and from Portland, Denver, Dallas, Atlanta, and Salt Lake City came to Detroit to share their experience and offer tips for developing a successful transit system.  The invitation-only audience included city, suburban, county, state, and congressional officials, M-1 Rail funders, a few media and transit advocates […]

In a discussion with the Detroit Free Press, Detroit Mayor Dave Bing said GM, DTE, and Blue Cross may be joining in investing in the Woodward Light Rail project. In response to concerns that the M-1 investors still haven’t given full commitment to fund the project as planned, Mayor Bing said, "I think there are

On August 2, Michigan voters passed five of the six public transit ballot measures up for a vote. These approvals come in the wake of a similar vote on May 3, when five other Michigan communities also voted “yes” on transit – approving every measure proposed.  These measures will keep buses running in rural and

A recent Brookings report found that just 22% of metro Detroit area jobs were accessible within a 90 minute transit ride, leaving far too many people without any real economic opportunity.  In this regard, Metro Detroit ranks 73rd of the top 100 metropolitan areas. Also, just 60% of working-age people within metro Detroit live near

As of 3pm on Friday, July 22, the People Mover has returned to normal loop operations.  Four train cars will travel in their normal clockwise loop around downtown, arriving at stations roughly every 5 minutes.   For about a week, the People Mover ran two-train shuttles after bricks from the 18-story David Whitney Building gave