Detroit Light Rail

Our friends at Translogic are taking a look at the Motor City's public transit (and lack thereof) this week. Translogic talked to transportation p...

The project looks great on paper, and even better in a computer-generated rendering provided by the project's backers. But life in Detroit is not lived on paper.

After several months hammering out the details, the backers behind a plan to put a 3.4-mile rail track down Woodward Ave. in Detroit submitted a repor...

By David Shepardson Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood is postponing a decision on the proposed M-1 light rail project up Woodward Avenue for at l...

If Detroit wants to stabilize and grow its economy, buses, rapid buses, and light rail must all be included in Detroit's regional transportation system. If Detroit only supports a basic bus system, we will remain a third-class city.

The U.S. Transportation Department told Michigan legislators and advocates of high-speed light rail it has serious concerns about the Woodward project...

Detroit's proposed light rail system -- back from the grave more times than a character on As The World Turns -- would be revived as a shorter, 3.4-mi...

The cancellation of plans for a light rail line running down Detroit's Woodward Avenue may be something of a blessing in disguise for the Motor City, ...

If we stick with the status quo, we are accepting a region without viable transportation. We're accepting that the "brain drain" Governor Snyder laments is part of our lives.

I am fully confident that we will have rail in Detroit. That said, the cancellation of this specific light rail project does not surprise me -- nor does it particularly disappoint me.

The Free Press reports that Detroit will cancel its plans to build a light rail line down Woodward Avenue in favor of beefing up the city's bus system...