Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Michigan

Parking Madness “Elite Eight”: Kansas City vs. Grand Rapids

By Angie Schmitt | Apr 1, 2014 | 4 Comments

One more round, and we’ll be down to the worst-of-the-worst parking craters in the Parking Madness bracket, our annual search for the worst excesses in urban surface parking. Parking overkill has certainly done a lot of damage to both of today’s competitors — Grand Rapids, Michigan, and Kansas City. We need you to help us decide which city […]

Parking Madness: Grand Rapids vs. Salt Lake City

By Angie Schmitt | Mar 28, 2014 | 33 Comments

The final spot in the “Elite Eight” of parking craters is riding on this match. Either Grand Rapids, Michigan, or Salt Lake City, Utah, will move on to the second round of Parking Madness, Streetsblog’s annual contest for eternal parking infamy. Both cities have their natural strengths. Grand Rapids, of course, is part of the […]

UPDATED: Last Night’s Quiet Transit Victories

By Tanya Snyder | Nov 6, 2013 | 5 Comments

Yesterday was a relatively quiet election day for transportation-related ballot measures, but of the six transit initiatives that came before voters yesterday, five six passed, with a sixth seventh too close to call. That’s in line with last year’s 79 percent success rate — 71 percent since 2000. When asked, voters overwhelmingly choose to raise […]

Imagining a Healthier Transportation System for Michigan

By Angie Schmitt | Nov 6, 2013 | 6 Comments

What would a more sustainable transportation system look like for the Detroit region? Or Michigan at large? Detroit’s regional planning agency didn’t show much foresight when, over the protests of many local jurisdictions, it green-lighted two highway projects totaling $4 billion this summer. But the non-profit Let’s Save Michigan is trying to help Michigan’s leaders envision […]

Flint’s Ingenious Plan to “Right-Size” Its Streets With Road Diets

By Angie Schmitt | Oct 29, 2013 | 3 Comments

Flint, Michigan, is probably best known as the poster child for population loss and de-industrialization, as captured in the Michael Moore movie, “Roger and Me.” Though this town of about 100,000 has never fully recovered from the loss of 30,000 General Motors jobs that was the subject of that film, Flint is becoming known for […]

Parking vs. Everything Else: An Aerial Map of Downtown Detroit

By Angie Schmitt | Aug 14, 2013 | 17 Comments

The above map, produced by Data Driven Detroit, comes to us though the satirical Facebook page Michigan Needs More Parking. It shows downtown Detroit with parking highlighted in orange and red: garages in orange, surface lots in red. “We must do something about all of these non-parking blocks holding back Detroit,” writes Michigan Needs More […]

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