A proposal to fund the construction of a light rail system in Kansas City was voted down last November. Frustrated that people did not really understand what light rail would do for the city, a local design agency created this video for Kansas City Public Television to try to make it very clear visually. This […]

Detroit Mayor Dave Bing brought up Woodward Light Rail in several recent interviews.  MLive quoted an interview on WDET: Bing identified several developments he said point toward a brighter future, including the Woodward Avenue Light Rail Project.  With funding in place and a federally-required environmental impact study underway, construction on the 9.3-mile light rail line

  A Detroit Free Press editorial explains it well:  Gov.-elect Rick Snyder will find the road to a 21st Century transportation system bumpy — with plenty of detours and dead-ends. He made the trip a little smoother this week by retaining respected transportation professional Kirk Steudle as director of the Michigan Department of Transportation. A

Michigan will soon have important new tools to support transit-oriented development, thanks to the work of transit champion and outgoing state Rep. Marie Donigan. She pushed through a key package that makes sure Michigan’s economic development tools work for transit-oriented development, such as using brownfield tax credits to build a new mixed use development at

First the bad news – the Michigan Senate failed to act on the rail bonding bill. With just three days on the schedule and hundreds of issues pressing for their attention, the Michigan Senate did not vote on HB 6484. That means it dies, along with every other incomplete bill this year. One of the