Getting There No Longer Just About Highways and Cars
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.
Source:
Michigan Land Use Institute, November 15, 2005
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