Transit

Splitting her time between the Motor City suburbs and the Mile High City, Metromode's Tanya Muzumdar sees ideas and innovations ripe for importation. Maybe instead of going it alone, Metro Detroit should consider going West for some urban inspiration. (more >)

Cheap Ways To Revitalize Your Downtown

By: Jon Zemke, 7/30/2009

From households to businesses to city government, everyone is in belt-tightening mode. But if there's one thing Metromode believes, it's that necessity is the mother of invention. A few Metro Detroit communities have come up with innovative and inexpensive ways to revitalize their downtowns. Time to take notes! (more >)

Metro Mass Transit - What It Needs

By: Michelle Martinez, 6/11/2009

Regional cooperation. Which, unfortunately, Metro Detroit doesn't have a very good track record with. If light rail and enhanced express buses are to succeed, suburbanites and city slickers are going to have to learn to sit thigh to thigh - physically and metaphorically. (more >)

Young Guns In Metro Politics

By: Daniel Johnson, 4/2/2009

They're under 35 and they got elected. Meet a trio of young Metro Detroit politicians, all determined to bring new ideas and new perspectives to their communities. Can they facilitate the changes SE Michigan so desperately needs? (more >)

Metromode Radio: Mass Transit Now

By: Chris McCarus, 1/29/2009

Interest in transit for Southeast Michigan is gaining ground but no ground has been broken. Even with plans for easy on and off trains from Detroit to Pontiac and Ann Arbor to Detroit no one seems to be able to close the deal. Michigan Now�s Chris McCarus compares Michigan's lack of action with Boston's investment in rail and its $16 billion big dig. (more >)

Blog/Chris Ramos & Jennifer Harlan

Chris Ramos decided to buy a bus. He wanted to get people from the suburbs into Detroit. Then he got the idea to run the bus on biodiesel; might as well help save the planet, right? So he quit his job, hired Jennifer Harlan and started The Night Move. It wasn't as simple as it sounds. Chris and Jennifer will be blogging about starting a business in a recession, the obstacles they face and what they've learned so far. (more >)

Video/Ann Arbor's Veggie Fueled Party Bus

Ann Arbor's B2B Party Bus is everything sustainable new urbanist hipsters ever dreamed of: An entrepreneurial enterprise that runs small scale private transit on secondhand cooking oil in order to transport young party-goers around downtown. (more >)