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Severe bus driver shortage plagues metro Detroit’s public transit, study finds
Public transit riders are waiting an excessive amount of time for DDOT, SMART rides
By Steve Neavling
Tags: Metro Detroit News, News, Transportation, Detroit, metro Detroit, public transit, SMART, DDOT, Transportation Riders United
Rick Haglund: Michigan Dems offer a refreshing change to a people-based economic growth strategy
Michigan has a golden opportunity to become a much stronger competitor for residents and workers
By Rick Haglund, Michigan Advance
Tags: Michigan News, Views & Opinions, Michigan, Whitmer, economy, population, transportation
Michigan dishes out $85M in tax money to fund QLine streetcars as costs increase
Fares and private boosters were supposed to fund the streetcars — not taxpayers
Tags: Metro Detroit News, News, Transportation, QLine, streetcars, Detroit, Gov. Whitmer, tax subsidies, transportation
Lime offers free e-scooter rides to vote in Detroit
The offer includes two free rides for up to $15 each way to and from the polls and is already available for early voting
Tags: Politics & Elections, Politics & Elections, Election, Detroit, Lime, e-scooter, Transportation
Mask mandates lifted for local transit authorities in metro Detroit
The decision comes after a Trump-appointed judge overturned the mask mandate in Florida
Tags: Metro Detroit News, President Biden, COVID-19, public transit, QLINE, Smart, DDOT, mask mandate, health, transportation
Report: EV technology, manufacturing to create job growth in Michigan
By Lily Bohlke, Michigan News Connection
Tags: Michigan, electric vehicles, EV, jobs, growth, transportation
The 2021 Detroit Metro Times Fiction Issue
Edited by Drew Philp and Nandi Comer
Tags: The Fiction Issue, Detroit, Metro Times, Fiction Issue, 2021, Kresge Arts, The Kresge Foundation, Cover Story
DDOT shuts down bus services after drivers refuse to work amid coronavirus fears
Tags: DDOT, buses, Detroit, transportation, coronavirus, SMART
Detroit and Michigan lead the nation with the highest auto insurance rates
Tags: News Hits, auto insurance, Michigan, Detroit, cars, Lansing, transportation
Proposed Michigan House budget slashes public transit
By Suzanne Potter, Michigan News Connection
Tags: News Hits, public transit, Michigan, Detroit, bus
Dan Gilbert, private interests steered QLine plans, study finds
By Lee DeVito
Tags: News Hits, QLine, Detroit, public transit, Dan Gilbert
Metro Detroit will never have regional public transit as long as L. Brooks Patterson is in power
Tags: News Hits, Detroit, Michigan, Oakland County, L. Brooks Patterson, public transit
Collision sparks debate about the efficiency of Detroit's QLine
Tags: News Hits, QLine, Detroit, safety, car crashes, public transit, streetcar, midtown
How I learned to stop worrying and love Detroit's buses
By Sarah Cox
Tags: Local News, Detroit, public transit, DDOT, SMART, cars
QLINE updates service hours; still behind the times
By Colin Maloney
Tags: News Hits, public transit, transportation, QLINE, nightlife
QLine testing is off to a great start
By Alexandra Fluegel
Tags: News Hits, M-1 rail, QLine, public transit, oops, umm, LOL
Welp, it's official: this November you can vote on regional transportation
By Metro Times editorial staff
Tags: Metro Detroit, News, RTA, Transit, Patterson, idiot, connecting, buses, equity, Oakland County, Macomb County
Detroit bike share system to launch in spring 2017
By Dustin Blitchok
Tags: News Hits, Detroit, biking, public transit
RTA plan is heading to the November ballots ... so we hear
By Allie Gross
Tags: News Hits, RTA, Patterson, Duggan, Hackle, Compromise
$1 billion rebuild of I-75 begins this month, congrats L. Brooks Patterson!
By Ryan Felton
Tags: News Hits, brooks patterson, freeway, regional transit, public transit, i75
Now that it’s lit up, people seem to like Detroit’s new I-94 sign
Pot-friendly Michigan music venue scales back programming
What’s happening in Detroit on 4/20?
By Layla McMurtrie