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The transportation funding increase that Snyder passed last year includes increases in fuel taxes, increases in registration fees, homestead property tax credits, and [[wait for it) pledges of funding...

The issue is more general than that. Macomb and Oakland Counties want guarantees that 85% of money generated from any millage would be spent in the county that generated the money.

Press release...

The rail cars are available.

The junction yard bypass has been completed to improve reliability.

There is an agreement with the rail owner to allow a certain number of trains on the trackage.
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The West Detroit Junction bypass wrapped up not too long ago.
http://www.progressiverailroading.com/amtrak/news/New-rail-line-helps-Amtrak-trains-bypass-Detroit-bottleneck--46840

Has the Metro Times actually talked to anyone at the RTA in the past several months?



The RTA has moved on from budgeted FTEs to real-live employees [[yes, more than one) since Ford signed his...

If you are going to go to one RTA Board meeting this year, today's should be the one.

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University of Detroit Mercy has been working on a comprehensive report of transit in the region. They compared our region to several peer regions. There is a lot to chew on...

A Study of Factors...

Have you been downtown in the past 3 or 4 weeks? You can't shake a stick without hitting a utility relocation crew.

* The intersection of CM and Michigan was reduced to 1 lane for ~a week.
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No, not really.

Bridges have huge costs for mobilization, abutments, and piers. The average cost of building a pedestrian bridge is typically 50 to 70 percent higher per square foot of deck area...

Absolutely, just expect those corridors to get a thumbs-up/thumbs-down before other corridors are added to the mix.

In addition to the corridors listed above, I'm sure the Washtenaw County folks...

The corridors are written into the RTA legislation.


http://legislature.mi.gov/doc.aspx?mcl-124-547