How A Community Sacked A Bypass

28 January 2003 - 12:00pm

A bypass demise yields unique transportation partnership.

Kelly Thayer explains how citizens in Petoskey, Michigan are moving forward with their plans to find a better way to move traffic and goods through theirgrowing region. Four months ago, after 15 years of civic strife, the MichiganDepartment of Transportation cancelled the proposed $90 million PetsokeyBypass and promised to finance a citizen-led alternative transportationplan... A local planning committee is now drawing the broad outlines of a unique land use and transportation study as well as a civic partnership to carry it out.

Source: Michigan Land Use Institute, January 28, 2003
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