May 2, 2008
Grand Vision: Where Red and Blue Meet
Next week, The Grand Vision, the Traverse area’s popular citizen-based planning project, takes a major step toward it’s
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May 1, 2008
Bus Rapid Transit Plan Draws Downtown Dollars
Despite Michigan's many maladies, developer Jonathan Bradford is confidently pushing forward with plans for a multi-million-dollar project
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December 7, 2007
Report Offers Route to Cut Petoskey Traffic
Five years after a large group of area residents force the state to drop its proposal to build a highway bypass around this northern
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November 28, 2007
‘Build It and They’ll Come’
Will the streetcar make a comeback in Grand Rapids? That is the question that local developer Guy Bazzani is considering as civic leaders
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October 26, 2007
BATA? You Bet!
I’ve always loved riding public transportation—the buses and trains that took me to work or conferences in big cities, the
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October 22, 2007
‘Very Small Start,’ Very Big Deal
Grand Rapids is not only poised to build the state’s first rapid transit line in half a century, it is also on the verge of opening
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September 10, 2007
Growth Boundaries for Petoskey?
If Petoskey wants to solve its traffic woes, it should sharply limit where it allows development, according to the consultant who conducted
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August 8, 2007
Regional Study Could Boost Safe Travel
Penny Morris still can’t believe that her daughter Adrian is gone. Adrian lost her life at a busy intersection that lacks a traffic
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July 31, 2007
Survey Finds Little Support for New Roads
Nearly five years after Emmet County residents convinced the state to cancel construction of a highway bypass around Petoskey, a new survey
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June 13, 2007
From Trolley Talk to Rail Reality?
Rick Gustafson once helped General Motors with automotive research, but today he helps communities build streetcar systems. He comes to
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May 4, 2007
Riding Rails to Big Rewards
Transit advocates looking for rapid rail success stories can find quite a few of them in the American West, including here in Murray City,
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April 22, 2007
Forum Tells Michigan: Cuts Won’t Cut It
Mark P. Haas, a top Michigan financial official, has thousands of statistics recounting this state’s woeful economic condition. But
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February 20, 2007
Petoskey Looks beyond Bypass
Five years ago, a meeting in Petoskey about roads would have packed a room with people adamantly opposed to building a highway bypass
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January 26, 2007
Agency Endorses Grand Rapids Streetcars
Emboldened by rave reviews from a delegation that studied Portland, Oregon's highly successful streetcar system, Grand Rapids’
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January 11, 2007
What Will Go Where?
Local leaders and a group of nationally-prominent companies are close to agreeing on a $1.36 million contract to help residents design what
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December 15, 2006
Sleepless in Michigan, not Seattle
It may not seem like a big deal in Michigan that the fate of an old highway along Seattle’s waterfront pits two former Wolverine
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November 29, 2006
The Little Trolley that Could…and Did
Five years after opening North America’s first modern streetcar system, Portland is a furnace of redevelopment, according to Homer
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October 8, 2006
Don’t Try This at Home
It all started when I got a summer job in the suburbs. I thought biking to work would be great exercise, but it was awful. Semi-trucks.
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September 29, 2006
Health Centers and Heavy Traffic
As officials finalize plans for a big road-widening project around Grand Rapid's booming medical center, public officials in some other
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