Did you know . . . that China has already spent $42 billion to host the Olympic Games, most of the spending going toward roads, subways and airports. According to Chicago’s Metropolitan Planning Council and the Wall Street Journal: "In order to accommodate the 300 sporting events, 16,000 athletes and coaches, and more […]
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"The World Is Flat" author, Thomas Friedman, wrote a fantastic op-ed piece in the New York Times, the Grand Rapids Press and probably elsewhere. Most powerfully, he said: “When a person is addicted to crack cocaine, his problem is not that the price of crack is going up. His problem is what that crack addiction
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"The World Is Flat" author, Thomas Friedman, wrote a fantastic op-ed piece in the New York Times, the Grand Rapids Press and probably elsewhere. Most powerfully, he said: “When a person is addicted to crack cocaine, his problem is not that the price of crack is going up. His problem is what that crack addiction
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Check out an interesting graphic showing growth in public transit ridership throughout the county!
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NPR’s Day to Day on Monday ran a story about Detroit transit! It quotes TRU Director Megan Owens, RTCC CEO John Hertel, Oakland County Executive Brooks Patterson, and Detroit business leader Matt Cullen. "When you think of Detroit, you think of cars — not trains or buses. Fifty years after Detroit’s last streetcar went out
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