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BATA Riders: More Village Service Means More Customers Doug commutes weekdays from Omena to his Traverse City job, but he hasn’t driven to work in months. Instead, he rides the...more Comments | Leave a comment
Grand Rapids: Gateway to Michigan’s Transit Success A promising plan for light rail transit in downtown Detroit is hogging attention, but Grand Rapid’s Bus Rapid Transit proposal is the...more Comments | Leave a comment
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...more Comments | Leave a comment
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...more Comments | Leave a comment
Feds OK Grand Rapids’ ‘New Start’ Transit Funds Just when it seemed Michigan was hitting a dead end on transit, one of the state’s top bus systems got a hot lead on a New Start:...more Comments | Leave a comment
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...more Comments | Leave a comment
‘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...more Comments | Leave a comment
 Oct 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...more Comments | Leave a comment
‘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...more Comments | Leave a comment
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...more Comments | Leave a comment
 Aug 31, 2007 Up North, Rising Costs Threaten ‘The Good Life’ With a nice home, two healthy children, an inviting small town to call home, and good jobs, Bonnie and Jim Szydlowski enjoy life in...more Comments | Leave a comment
Aug 08, 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...more Comments | Leave a comment
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...more Comments | Leave a comment
 Jun 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...more Comments | Leave a comment
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,...more Comments | Leave a comment
Apr 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...more Comments | Leave a comment
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...more Comments | Leave a comment
Agency Endorses Grand Rapids Streetcars Emboldened by rave reviews from a delegation that studied Portland, Oregon's highly successful streetcar system, Grand Rapids’...more Comments | Leave a comment
Jan 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...more Comments | Leave a comment
Dec 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...more Comments | Leave a comment
Dec 11, 2006 For Successful Planning, It’s the More, the Merrier In metropolitan Salt Lake City, citizens stacked poker chip on enormous maps. In Chattanooga and Knoxville they stuck multicolored dots...more Comments | Leave a comment
Nov 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...more Comments | Leave a comment
Nov 22, 2006 Will State Leaders Heed Election Message? Michigan’s most important economic development story—and to some extent, the nation’s—is not about what is...more Comments | Leave a comment
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....more Comments | Leave a comment
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...more Comments | Leave a comment |
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