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Getting There No Longer Just About Highways and Cars

Posted by: Abhijeet Chavan
Thanks to: Keith Schneider
16 November 2005 - 8:00am

Regional economic transition invites new reckoning with transit.

The great road and highway-building era ended with the 20th century. Five years into the 21st, southeast Michigan's road builders confront a uniquely messy new challenge: Cracked and congested highways and not nearly enough money to either repair or widen them. Gradually public transit alternatives are gaining prominence in the region that helped invent sprawl.

Full Story: Getting There No Longer Just About Highways and Cars in Detroit
Source: Michigan Land Use Institute, November 15, 2005
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