High Speed Rail? Michigan is Moving in Reverse! The State Senate Must Act Now to Get Us Off the Slow Track. Michigan is at a rail crossroad. We could have our trains (and our economy) running at 110 mph, yet they are now running at just 40 mph, literally! Just yesterday (November 30), Norfolk Southern […]

A train from Chicago to Detroit in less than four hours? It could be coming, if the Michigan Senate votes for HB 6484! Michigan will get at least $161 million from the feds to buy and improve railroad track connecting Detroit-Dearborn-Ann Arbor-Kalamazoo, IF the state provides the required $35 million match. HB 6484 provides that match

Why should drivers receive double the tax deduction for parking that transit commuters get? If Congress doesn’t act, that’s what will happen in January.  A provision in the stimulus bill increased the transit benefit from $120 to $230, finally putting it on equal footing with the $230 parking benefit. But that provision is about to

The Woodward Avenue Action Association (WA3) has commissioned a transit task force of elected officials, key employers, and institutional partners from Berkley, Birmingham, Ferndale, Huntington Woods, and Royal Oak to develop a unified transit vision for South Oakland Woodward communities and to partner with regional, state, and federal authorities on major initiatives like expanding the

Mark your calendar – TRU’s 2011 Annual Meeting will be on Tuesday evening, January 25, at the MSU Detroit Center.  You won’t want to miss all the latest on Detroit transit and opportunities to get involved, plus your say into TRU’s long-term strategic plan for solving transit. Details coming soon.  Stay tuned!!