At tonight’s meeting of the Oakland County Commission, a great deal of time and debate focused on SMART transit. Unfortunately Commissioner Schwartz failed in his effort to force a vote on making the SMART millage and service countywide.  The decision went down on purely party lines. The Commission voted instead to maintain the status quo […]

The public can submit comments until Friday, Dec 11, on the Michigan Department of Transportation’s plans for major roadwork statewide through 2014. Each year, MDOT puts out its latest 5-year roadwork plan, updating projects for the final year of each plan.  A draft of the current plan is at www.michigan.gov/mdot5yearplan. It includes engineering reports advancing

Important reminder – In September, the SMART Board of Directors voted to increase some bus fares as a way to minimize any cuts in service and address decreasing revenues due to the local economy (see the press release for details).  Those fare increases go into effect today! So starting today (December 1): Regular bus fares

The Oakland County Commission’s General Government Committee voted today on a measure that would have allowed all of Oakland County to vote on a countywide SMART bus millage and countywide service.  Unfortunately the vote was tied 6-6 which was not enough to advance it to the full Commission.  Sponsors Steve Schwartz (D-Farmington) and Dave Potts

Detroit Mayor Dave Bing was interviewed by the Free Press and had some interesting things to say about transit: Q:  Negotiations between Detroit and Wayne, Oakland and Macomb counties on a Regional Transit Authority have reportedly been bumpy. Will the Big Four be able to resolve their differences this year? A: We are on board.