Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Detroit

Highway Revolts Break Out Across the Midwest

By Angie Schmitt | Jun 28, 2013 | No Comments

The evolution of state and regional transportation agencies is painfully slow in places like Missouri and Ohio, where officials are plowing ahead with pricey highway projects conceived of decades ago. But plenty of Midwesterners have different ideas for the future of their communities, and they aren’t shy about speaking up. One after another, residents of […]

Can the Feds Fix Detroit’s Uniquely Terrible Transit System?

By Angie Schmitt | Sep 21, 2011 | No Comments

There is no better evidence of the sharp social divisions that continue to haunt metro Detroit than the appalling state of its transit system. When it comes to public transportation, residents of the city of Detroit and suburbanites live in a state of government sanctioned apartheid. They ride fully separate systems, with fully separate sets […]

Feds Call “All Hands On Deck” For Detroit Transit

By Tanya Snyder | Aug 10, 2011 | No Comments

For the last two days, transit experts from around the country have been hunkered down in Detroit to devote their collective expertise to making the Motor City a better city for transit. The Federal Transit Administration convened the panel, which included current and former transit agency leaders from Salt lake City, Denver, Portland, Atlanta and […]

Compromise Over Detroit Light Rail Gets Thumbs Up from Advocates

By Angie Schmitt | Jun 30, 2011 | No Comments

A wrestling match between private investors and the transit community in Detroit has ended in compromise. Detroit leaders have moved to run the city’s Woodward Light Rail along the center of the street throughout most of its nine-mile course. The line will be oriented along the curb, with more frequent stops, beginning when it enters […]

Detroit: The Return of the Repressed (Bicycling Culture)

By Chris Carlsson | Jun 29, 2010 | 21 Comments

Detroit’s once bustling streets are a bicyclist’s paradise now, wide open and empty. Visiting the ghostly motor city these days is an eye-opening and surprisingly inspiring experience. The city has fallen from more than 2 million residents a generation ago to around 800,000 today. A great deal of the land area where homes and factories […]