TRU Director Megan Owens will be the featured guest for the Detroit Free Press web chat about transit on Tuesday at noon. We’ll talk about the progress and challenges ahead as Michigan tries to move forward with new projects and maintain services amid budget cuts with Megan, former state Rep. Marie Donigan and Sean Mann, […]

Some interesting reading . . .    Congressman Abraham Lincoln’s speech on the House floor in favor of the federal role in infrastructure spending.  The year: 1848.

Attention TRU members and supporters: TRU is undertaking an in-depth strategic planning process to ensure we have the greatest possible impact on improving public transit in greater Detroit.  Our staff and Board of Directors analyzed our organizational strengths and weaknesses, along with Detroit transit opportunities and challenges.  We developed our Vision Statement, along with the

What are they thinking!?!  Unless they change course soon, City Council’s budget will eliminate the Detroit People Mover! City Council’s budget will gut the little remaining DDOT bus service. And City Council’s budget risks killing the Woodward Light Rail project! To get much needed federal funding to build Woodward Light Rail, the Federal Transit Administration

“Last year, we (the US government) spent more than $40 billion on highways… over Amtrak’s entire 40-year history, it has received just under $38 billion." According to Senator Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) in a May 26 congressional hearing on a proposal to sell Amtrak’s northeast corridor