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Last summer, the mayor described investments that might create attractive neighborhoods in the city where residents could walk no more than 20 minutes and find stories and amenities. This announcement describe the future expenditure of about $1.6 million to start planning for 20 minute neighborhoods in five areas. This certainly fits with the philosophy of the New Urbanism movement. Will it be successful in Detroit?
This is a great initiative. Absolutely it willl help, but as always, it's up to the people living in these areas to really make a difference and decide which direction the neighborhood will go.
Interesting related article in this week's Crains...
Analysis: Detroit's new mobility chief must be a prime mover
Veteran executive's hiring brings fresh perspective on transportation to Detroit
http://www.crainsdetroit.com/article...-a-prime-moverQuote:
In Detroit, 108,000, or 61 percent of employed Detroit residents, travel outside the city for their jobs, according to the Corporation for a Skilled Workforce study. Roughly 46 percent of those travel more than 10 miles from home, the study said. Unreliable transportation options for the city's residents precludes many from finding those jobs in the suburbs.
More than a quarter of Detroit households don't own an automobile, ranking eighth among the 30 largest cities in the U.S., and behind only cities with robust mass transit systems, such as Chicago, New York City and Washington, D.C., according to a 2014 study by the University of Michigan's Transportation Research Institute.
The city's mass transit options are terrible, even if it's gaining a new rail line in the QLine. In the November election, the Regional Transit Authority's transit tax was narrowly defeated.