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The newly constructed community center in the Jefferson-Chalmers neighborhood and who knows how many millions in improvements are now fenced off because some consultant managed to excavate some...

I assume even nonprofits pay some sort of rent which is probably better than having the space vacant.

All parking structures, but especially the ones downtown should be required to have active retail or office spaces on the perimeter walls. The dead zones created on the street by these blank expanses...

Correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems that if the State had not stepped in to take over the building after GM abandoned it, it might be a ruin today. I have no idea how much of the building is...

As much as I would like to see it, Detroit, much less the metro area doesn't have the density to support decent mass transit. Many cities in Europe that are smaller than Detroit have good systems...

20 years of deferred maintenance later it probably doesn't look quite this good anymore. If it is demolished I hope the good parts of it can be salvaged.

I had not realized the huge cost of maintaining traffic lights. Multiply that by the number of intersections that could be replaced with roundabouts and you get a pretty significant savings. That...

It would be incredibly sad to lose yet another piece of Detroit's history, but let's face it, there is only so much money to go around. There are other buildings on Belle Isle in better shape that...

Of course people should be able to have private cars, but they should not be a requirement for everyday living. In the beginning cars were used as RVs for vacation and excursions, but we have evolved...

Like I said there is no easy way to fix this, especially with attitudes like the trolling response above.

Well not to denigrate it, because it certainly is pretty as a lovely relic of the 19th century, but as an aquarium I'm not sure it should be labeled the "best" by other than historic preservationists.

Yep, the metro area had many nice old downtowns and it is a pity that they couldn't have retained that walkable character with rail links to Detroit. Unfortunately we chose to create an automobile...

That's not quite fair since the Q-Line was financed privately. Reaching 8 Mile would also bring in Highland Park complicating it further. Besides there is arguably not enough traffic on that corridor...

I have not been to Edmonton and would like to see how they have done it, but I suspect that just being in Canada they are better at this stuff. I would also guess that the history of animosity...

This brings up the question of how were the alphabetic prefixes determined as there could have been several possibilities for the number combinations on the dial. I'm guessing they were officially...

"This Eurojunk is responsible for thousands of people not dying in crashes around the United States each year...if you get in a crash in a roundabout, you're almost certainly going to walk away."
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Metro Detroit will never have the density to support decent mass transit, especially if all money is spent widening highways, building more sprawl, and generally making it easier to drive everywhere.

On the lower East Side our number was EDgewater 18904, my neighbor down the street was VAlley 27281, when we moved to Grosse Pointe it was TUxedo 57182 and when I lived in Ferndale it was LIncoln...

I don't think the thing has ever worked as it was supposed to. It is way too complicated and subject to malfunctions. I would like to see it moved to another location and replaced with something more...

I would like to see the East Jefferson bike lanes redesigned to be like the two way ones on Kercheval that put both directions on the same side of the street. The two one-ways on Jefferson are...

The Piquette Plant, home on Henry Ford's first factory, is also a terrific place to visit there. The large warehouse next to it is currently undergoing conversion into lofts, but the Fisher Plant is...

Talk of movie theaters causes me to think about how few there are in the city compared to when I was born in 1946. By the mid 50s when I was permitted to go to neighborhood theaters by myself or with...

"I guess that is the most puzzling part,why is it that some cities can provide a full range of services to the taxpayers at a affordable rate while others struggle to do so at double or triple that...

I was on the 9 Jefferson yesterday and noted that the robotic stop announcer seemed to mispronounce some of the street names. He [[are they always a male voice?) pronounced Joseph Compau "Com-pow"...

OK, here's another example: 215 Burns. Almost 3 riverfront acres with a $3000 annual tax bill [[delinquent) which is $1K less than I pay for my 1200 sq ft. house. Owner listed as Phoenix...