What To Know And Where To Go In Southeast Michigan
A pilot program in the city of Detroit might show the way of the future, combining mass transit with on-demand ride sharing services. The program, called “Woodward 2 Work,” will offer a $7 Lyft credit to Detroit Department of Transportation (DDOT) riders who use select bus stops along the 53 Woodward route on weekdays, between the hours of midnight and 5 a.m. It starts …
This is your Daily Detroit News Byte for Tuesday, May 1. Here's what we're talking about today. New data shows struggles for the QLINE (LINK: Bridge Michigan). The team talks about the missed opportunities, how it should have ran down the center lane and a winter story of beating the streetcar in the snow. 18 New Townhouses are coming to Corktown May the Fourth be …
Here’s your Daily Detroit News Byte For Tuesday, April 24th, 2018. 13 Truckers do a good deed on a metro Detroit area freeway Royal Oak denies a boozy Taco Bell Cantina Homes in our region are selling faster You might be able to get your next Amazon order delivered to your car Detroit’s bike share service is offering classes And the Detroit Grand Prix is …
Here’s your Daily Detroit News Byte For Monday, April 23, 2018 recorded in beautiful Grand Circus Park. A video game set in Detroit, "Detroit: Become Human" is about to launch. A playable demo comes out Tuesday. The largest robotics competition in the world is coming to Detroit this week Detroit’s harnessing some flower power A Cass Corridor jazz club relaunches …
An earthquake hits Detroit and we have the details... Our feature conversation is with author and journalist Nathan Bomey who has a book coming out, "After The Fact: The Erosion of Truth and the Inevitable Rise of Donald Trump." If you're interested, here's an Amazon link for you to pick up a copy. The FAST service by SMART Bus finds early success... Lyft is …
This is your Daily Detroit News Byte podcast for Monday, April 2. Here are our stories: Wayne County is among the most affordable places in the nation to buy a home. Detroit Bus Service changes are coming Fuel economy standards may be changing Detroiters line up for free pizza…. and the pizza bots are coming A locally based company is going to be front and …
This is your Daily Detroit News Byte Podcast for Tuesday, March 27th, 2018. Macomb County's Clerk is out the door, thanks to a judge's ruling Governor Rick Snyder talks transit and roads with Sven Belle Isle might get a public boat launch and is studying it Wayne State University is expanding the footprint of a theatre and moving a historic building …
This is your Daily Detroit News Byte For Wednesday, March 21st, 2018. The State Fairgrounds site is to be bought by the city and could become a regional transit hub and job-focused development. We have words from Detroit mayor Mike Duggan and break it down. The Conner Assembly Plant will find new life as a museum and meeting space. Contractors for Little Caesars …
On this week's Daily Detroit Happy Hour with Sven Gustafson, we talk mass transit. A new plan called "Connect Southeast Michigan" has been put forth by Wayne County Executive Warren Evans (more here)... but does it even have a chance? Does any plan have a chance? The Daily Detroit team walked through some of the speech Evans gave to a Regional Transit Authority Board …
This is your Daily Detroit News Byte For Thursday, March 15th, 2018. Wayne County Exec Warren Evans has a new plan to improve regional transit March Madness comes to Detroit GM invests in autonomous vehicle production in Michigan Detroit businesses will get grants to improve their facades Zingerman’s is Michigan’s only James Beard Award finalist A Detroit …
Wayne County Executive Warren Evans unveiled a new plan today to improve regional transit. The draft plan is called “Connect Southeast Michigan.” It comes as the region’s leaders struggle to advance a transit plan in the wake of Detroit’s failed Amazon bid and the narrow defeat by voters of the Regional Transit Authority proposal in 2016. It calls for 15 bus routes …
If you listened to our recent episode on Amazon’s snub of Detroit (and you totally should), you’ll recall that the inclusion of Indianapolis among the 20 finalists for its HQ2 project was the topic of some surprise. Well, one of the reasons they made it was their efforts to develop 50 miles of Bus Rapid Transit and other improvements. So we sent our correspondent Shianne …
Biking sharing programs have become popular across the country since they started popping up in 2010. Detroit's own bike sharing program, MoGo, has just made it in the top 10 for Most Affordable Bike Share Programs in the United States. The website Instamotor looked at 55 bike sharing programs across the country to see who had the most affordable rates. The rankings …
What is the state of Metro Detroit's transit system? Where do we go from here? Will there be a ballot proposal in 2018? What about universal fare cards? What improvements have been made? That was all covered at the Transit Riders United Annual Meeting which had a program about the State of Transit. There are a lot of questions around something that's pretty critical topic …
Royal Oak plans to survey residents and organizations to gauge interest in funding a city-operated transit system to connect residents who aren’t served by SMART buses to downtown and other attractions. Proponents also hope such a system would ease chronic parking shortages. Talks are in an early stage to design a system that would complement but not eliminate SMART, the …
There is currently a task force studying whether or not Royal Oak should create it’s own bus system. Yes, you read that right. Royal Oak Mayor Michael Fournier has appointed a seven person task force to see if Royal Oak should create a stand alone bus service. According to an article on the Daily Tribune there will be a public meeting on Wednesday, January 17 to …
Third Street, a one-way, multi-lane road through the heart of Detroit's Midtown neighborhood, is going to be shut down over I-94. There's not a definite timeline from the Michigan Department of Transportation on when the bridge will be repaired. According to MDOT, during a recent inspection of the overpass, they found structural deterioration in the bridge supports, …
In the heart of the Motor City lies a freeway whose days are numbered. I-375 is a mile-long, sunken freeway serving downtown Detroit. Its construction half a century ago destroyed an historic African-American neighborhood. Today, the freeway and its bridges are literally crumbling. It forms a barrier between Greektown and the Lafayette Park neighborhood. The …
Editor's note: This post has been updated with a new map from SMART as of Nov. 11, 2017. Recently, the suburban bus system (The Suburban Mobility Authority for Regional Transportation or SMART) unveiled a new set of three routes up Woodward, Gratiot, and Michigan avenues with stops every mile or so, Wi-Fi and service lead times as little as every 15 minutes and service 24 …
Metro Detroit's public transportation system is anemic when taken as a whole, but the city proper is making improvements. Investment in transportation in Detroit is a priority as the Motor City is 8th in the nation for households without a car at 26%, just two percentage points behind Chicago. According to a release from the city of Detroit, the Detroit Department of …
Auto insurance reform in the city of Detroit and Michigan will have to wait until another day, if it happens at all. According to a report in Crain's, after intense lobbying a bi-partisan plan spearheaded by Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan failed 45-63. Aligned against the plan were lobbyists from hospitals, medical systems like Henry Ford Health Systems and the Detroit Medical …
Currently the Detroit-Windsor Tunnel has been closed for construction since October 20. The tunnel will is scheduled to reopen at 5:30 a.m. on Monday, October 30. This morning we had the rare opportunity to go inside the tunnel to take photos of the renovation work being done. We thought we would bring you eight quick facts about the tunnel itself and the work being …
A bus service that connects Ann Arbor, Detroit and now Dearborn provided by the University of Michigan is expanding their service first started in 2013 to seven days a week, as well as opening it up to the general public. It's called the Detroit Connector. According to press information, the bus service starting nextw week includes the Central Campus Transit Center (CCTC) …
When the new bike share program serving the city of Detroit launched, MoGo, the criticisms were swift and ranged from “they’re all going to get stolen” to “no one is going to care.” But according to new data put out by MoGo, an affiliate of the Downtown Detroit Partnership, the service has hit some key milestones over the five months since launch. There have been more …
Two abductions of females on bicycles has the community talking and wondering what to do to keep safe on Detroit's streets. Detroit's bicycling community is seeing strong gains, between more bicyclists on the road and they city's focus on bike sharing and protected bike lanes. But two incidents raise questions about being protected from a personal safety perspective. Both …
During the lunch rush Thursday one of the QLINE streetcars hit and a semitruck trailer collided. The streetcar was traveling southbound along Woodward when it was struck by the trailer of a semi-truck hauling a forklift. Detroit Police cited the truck driver. The accident report has not been released yet, so my contact at the QLINE could not give more information about …
The repaving of Pinecrest, which closed the north-south connector street between Nine Mile Road and Pleasant Ridge for most of the summer, has brought an additional benefit besides smoother pavement: semi-protected bike lanes. The bike lanes run curbside on both sides of the street between Nine Mile and West Oakridge Street. They’re separated from traffic lanes by double …
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When it comes to practicality, the QLINE streetcar has been a disappointment. Our team is pretty bike- and walk- friendly, and will take the bus if the timing makes sense. We have contributors who live near the QLINE and the MoGo stations, and others who live near bus lines and use them (in the suburbs, too). When both opened earlier this year, we had multiple debates …
Since 1930, the tunnel between Detroit and Windsor has been serving drivers. This fall the final phaseof $21.9 million in renovations are underway, including replacing the concrete ceiling and other infrastructure improvements. The tunnel goes as far as a mile below the surface of the Detroit River and serves 12,000 people a day. Here's the closure schedule through June of …
A $5.1 million project by the Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) will begin resurfacing 8 Mile Road (M-102) between Woodward Ave. (M-1) and the Southfield Freeway (M-39). The construction kicks off tonight, Monday, August 14 at 7 p.m. and will run through late October. All told, there will be 4.6 miles of 8 Mile Road resurfaced. According …
