Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Detroit

Detroit Breaks Ground on First Protected Bike Lane Project

By Angie Schmitt | Apr 3, 2015 | 4 Comments

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. The bike lane is part of a road diet for Jefferson Avenue in the historic Jefferson-Chalmers business district. […]

Parking Madness 2015 Elite Eight: Detroit vs. Camden

By Angie Schmitt | Mar 25, 2015 | 21 Comments

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. Detroit The above image, submitted by reader Luke Klipp, […]

Parking Madness 2015: Detroit vs. Walnut Creek

By Angie Schmitt | Mar 19, 2015 | 34 Comments

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. We have two doozies to feast your eyes on today. The Detroit waterfront is taking on the Bay Area suburb of Walnut Creek, California. Detroit […]

Man Walks 21 Miles to Commute Each Day Because of Detroit’s Awful Transit

By Angie Schmitt | Feb 3, 2015 | 32 Comments

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. Robertson’s total commute is actually a 46-mile round-trip, split between different […]

Michigan Gas Tax Hike Could Provide Some Relief for Detroit Transit Riders

By Angie Schmitt | Nov 17, 2014 | 13 Comments

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. A provision of the bill would allow […]

To Destabilize Detroit’s Fragile Renaissance, Go Ahead and Widen I-94

By Phineas Baxandall and Jeff Inglis | Sep 30, 2014 | 9 Comments

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. Michigan highway planners want to spend […]

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