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If you want to be a city of tomorrow, you need to have the building blocks for it. And tomorrow — even today, as Ford and General Motors have acknowledged with their recent investments in mobility — involves many different kinds of transportation options. Keith Crain’s editorial on June 17, "Say goodbye to the Motor City" was emblematic of old Detroit thinking. Detroit …
The city of Detroit has begun work on a one million-dollar project to redesign East Jefferson Avenue. The goal is to make it safer for bicyclists and pedestrians. The project centers on a nearly 5-and-a-half-mile stretch of East Jefferson from Rivard Street downtown to Lakewood Street in the Jefferson-Chalmers neighborhood. There, it will join up with protected bike lanes …
From the bustling heart of Midtown over a couple Faygo pops, this is your Daily Detroit News Byte for Tuesday, May 15, 2018. Here are your stories for today. Jefferson on the east side is getting smaller for cars... and bigger for bikes Detroit’s Bike sharing service gets new adaptive bikes Facebook is funding more software training in Detroit And Highland Park …
Detroit is in many ways becoming more and more of a biking city, along with other modes of transportation than just cars. [smart_track_player url="http://traffic.libsyn.com/dailydetroithappyhour/DD-13-Happy_hour_Todd-Scott_mixdown.mp3" download="true" social_gplus="false" social_linkedin="true" social_email="true" twitter_username="TheDailyDetroit" ] Todd Scott, Executive …
As part of a sweeping plan that reimagines Detroit's riverfront community from Rivard to Grand Boulevard, Jefferson Avenue is going on a "road diet" and getting bike lanes, parking and the actionable traffic lanes are going down from nine to five. The announcement was made at an event revealing the East Riverfront master plan that was created in concert between the city of …
The City of Detroit is conducting a demonstration project on a roughly half-mile stretch of Livernois Avenue to test the idea of calming traffic, installing bike lanes and making other improvements to give a boost to businesses in the city’s so-called “Avenue of Fashion.” Crews have installed orange barrels, temporary signage and rubber crosswalk mats, with lines temporarily …
Shinola has a new-ish commercial out along with Third Man Records set in the Cass Corridor (part of the larger area often referred to as Midtown) and talking about Detroit music, with the aim of pushing Shinola’s new audio line. Three songs featured in the 90 second piece are While You Were Gone by The Combinations, …
