Detroit
Detroit Breaks Ground on First Protected Bike Lane Project
The Motor City is getting its first taste of on-street protected bike infrastructure. Work has begun on a street redesign that will bring Detroit its very first bike lane where parked cars will protect riders from motor vehicle traffic.
April 3, 2015
Parking Madness 2015 Elite Eight: Detroit vs. Camden
Today it's on to round two in Parking Madness, our hunt for the worst parking crater in an American town. Our first Elite Eight matchup features two cities struggling to rebuild in the wake of some serious urban disinvestment, and these parking craters certainly aren't helping. It's Camden vs. Detroit.
March 25, 2015
Parking Madness 2015: Detroit vs. Walnut Creek
The Parking Madness competition has never been fiercer. In yesterday's match-up, Parkersburg, West Virginia, edged Boston by a slim 12 votes, and before that, Amarillo beat out Nashville by just six votes. Your ballot counts.
March 19, 2015
Man Walks 21 Miles to Commute Each Day Because of Detroit’s Awful Transit
A piece in the Detroit Free Press about 56-year-old factory worker James Robertson and his 21-mile round-trip walking commute to the Detroit suburbs is going viral this week. It is both an amazing story of individual perseverance and a scathing indictment of a failing transportation system.
February 3, 2015
Michigan Gas Tax Hike Could Provide Some Relief for Detroit Transit Riders
Michigan state senators voted last week to approve a gas tax hike expected to net more than $1 billion annually to fix the state's notoriously potholed roads, reports the Free Press. The measure, if it passes the House intact, could also be good news for Detroit's woefully inadequate transit system.
November 17, 2014
To Destabilize Detroit’s Fragile Renaissance, Go Ahead and Widen I-94
A recent report by U.S. PIRG and the Frontier Group, “Highway Boondoggles: Wasted Money and America’s Transportation Future,” examines 11 of the most wasteful, least justifiable road projects underway in America right now. Here’s the latest installment in our series profiling the various bad decisions that funnel so much money to infrastructure that does no good.
September 30, 2014
Connecting Detroit Neighborhoods With Better Streets and Public Spaces
Can safer streets and livelier public spaces help knit Detroit back together?
July 16, 2014
7 Photos Show How Detroit Hollowed Out During the Highway Age
While searching for images of highway interchanges in urban areas, I came across these historic aerial photos of Detroit on a message board, showing how the city fabric has slowly eroded. It's a remarkable record of a process that has scarred many other American cities.
June 24, 2014
Talking Headways Podcast: A Butterfly Flaps Its Wings In the Metro
The metro is coming to Loudon County, Virginia. Eventually.
June 13, 2014
Detroit Has a $2 Billion Vacancy Crisis But the Region Still Splurges on Roads
On Tuesday, the results of a federal report on Detroit's vacancy crisis made jaws drop: The pricetag for tearing down and cleaning up the city's abandoned properties would be $1.85 billion, the report found.
May 29, 2014