MDOT just announced that Amtrak set new ridership record in Michigan: Amtrak trains in Michigan have set new ridership records for the fiscal year ending Sept. 30, . . . evidence that passengers consider train travel in the Great Lakes State a convenient travel option. For the 2009-2010 fiscal year, 479,782 passengers rode Amtrak Wolverine […]

Check out this great little video from our friends west of the lake at One Wisconsin NOW: The time is now for High Speed Rail to come to Wisconsin and bring us into a new era of economic prosperity. High speed rail will bring thousands of much needed skilled jobs to Wisconsin as well as

From our friends at For the second time in a month, President Obama has put the national spotlight on transportation.  In a speech Monday that made national headlines, the President released a report from his key economic advisers making a strong case for transportation: Now is the time to make a transformational investment that will

According to the Washington Post, Failing U.S. transportation system will imperil prosperity, report finds: The United States is saddled with a rapidly decaying and woefully underfunded transportation system that . . . will lead to "a steady erosion of the social and economic foundations for American prosperity in the long run." That is a central

A professor at our very own University of Detroit Mercy has found even more proof of the enormous economic benefits of transit: Transit spending increases income in a region because it provides transportation alternatives to poorer workers, it promotes development, and white collar workers do not waste time a in car but can get work