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	June 11, 2008 Grand Rapids: Gateway to Michigan’s Transit Success A promising plan for light rail transit in downtown Detroit is hogging attention, but Grand Rapid’s Bus Rapid Transit proposal is the most important ...more
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	May 2, 2008 Grand Vision: Where Red and Blue Meet Next week, The Grand Vision, the Traverse area’s popular citizen-based planning project, takes a major step toward it’s ultimate goal: building a ...more
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	May 1, 2008 Bus Rapid Transit Plan Draws Downtown Dollars Despite Michigan's many maladies, developer Jonathan Bradford is confidently pushing forward with plans for a multi-million-dollar project in a gritty part of ...more
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	February 4, 2008 Feds OK Grand Rapids’ ‘New Start’ Transit Funds Just when it seemed Michigan was hitting a dead end on transit, one of the state’s top bus systems got a hot lead on a New Start: Grand Rapids won as ...more
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	December 7, 2007 Report Offers Route to Cut Petoskey Traffic Five years after a large group of area residents force the state to drop its proposal to build a highway bypass around this northern Michigan city, a new study ...more
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	November 28, 2007 ‘Build It and They’ll Come’ Will the streetcar make a comeback in Grand Rapids? That is the question that local developer Guy Bazzani is considering as civic leaders here investigate the ...more
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	October 26, 2007 BATA? You Bet! I’ve always loved riding public transportation—the buses and trains that took me to work or conferences in big cities, the people watching, the ...more
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	October 22, 2007 ‘Very Small Start,’ Very Big Deal Grand Rapids is not only poised to build the state’s first rapid transit line in half a century, it is also on the verge of opening the door for the rest ...more
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	September 10, 2007 Growth Boundaries for Petoskey? If Petoskey wants to solve its traffic woes, it should sharply limit where it allows development, according to the consultant who conducted a yearlong ...more
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	August 31, 2007 Up North, Rising Costs Threaten ‘The Good Life’ With a nice home, two healthy children, an inviting small town to call home, and good jobs, Bonnie and Jim Szydlowski enjoy life in northern Michigan. But like ...more
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	August 8, 2007 Regional Study Could Boost Safe Travel Penny Morris still can’t believe that her daughter Adrian is gone. Adrian lost her life at a busy intersection that lacks a traffic signal, along a ...more
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	July 31, 2007 Survey Finds Little Support for New Roads Nearly five years after Emmet County residents convinced the state to cancel construction of a highway bypass around Petoskey, a new survey reveals that most ...more
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	June 13, 2007 From Trolley Talk to Rail Reality? Rick Gustafson once helped General Motors with automotive research, but today he helps communities build streetcar systems. He comes to Grand Rapids tomorrow ...more
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	May 4, 2007 Riding Rails to Big Rewards Transit advocates looking for rapid rail success stories can find quite a few of them in the American West, including here in Murray City, a town of 50,000 ...more
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	April 22, 2007 Forum Tells Michigan: Cuts Won’t Cut It Mark P. Haas, a top Michigan financial official, has thousands of statistics recounting this state’s woeful economic condition. But the one that best ...more
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	February 20, 2007 Petoskey Looks beyond Bypass Five years ago, a meeting in Petoskey about roads would have packed a room with people adamantly opposed to building a highway bypass around their downtown. ...more
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	January 26, 2007 Agency Endorses Grand Rapids Streetcars Emboldened by rave reviews from a delegation that studied Portland, Oregon's highly successful streetcar system, Grand Rapids’ regional public transit ...more
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	January 11, 2007 What Will Go Where? Local leaders and a group of nationally-prominent companies are close to agreeing on a $1.36 million contract to help residents design what six northwest ...more
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	December 15, 2006 Sleepless in Michigan, not Seattle It may not seem like a big deal in Michigan that the fate of an old highway along Seattle’s waterfront pits two former Wolverine State residents against ...more
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	December 11, 2006 For Successful Planning, It’s the More, the Merrier In metropolitan Salt Lake City, citizens stacked poker chip on enormous maps. In Chattanooga and Knoxville they stuck multicolored dots onto big banners ...more
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	November 29, 2006 The Little Trolley that Could…and Did Five years after opening North America’s first modern streetcar system, Portland is a furnace of redevelopment, according to Homer Williams, a leading ...more
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	November 22, 2006 Will State Leaders Heed Election Message? Michigan’s most important economic development story—and to some extent, the nation’s—is not about what is happening in Lansing or ...more
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	October 8, 2006 Don’t Try This at Home It all started when I got a summer job in the suburbs. I thought biking to work would be great exercise, but it was awful. Semi-trucks. Highways. Dead-ends. No ...more
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	September 29, 2006 Health Centers and Heavy Traffic As officials finalize plans for a big road-widening project around Grand Rapid's booming medical center, public officials in some other U.S. cities with ...more
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	August 26, 2006 What’s Healthy for Health Hill? Developers are sparing no expense or creativity to build Health Hill, the biotech hub of Grand Rapids’ 21st-century economy and the center of an ...more
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