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Michigan links trains and bikes
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Strategies include new ways to store bicycles on trains and encouraging more intersections of bike trails with train routes.
Great Lakes Echo (http://greatlakesecho.org/tag/mass-transit/)
Strategies include new ways to store bicycles on trains and encouraging more intersections of bike trails with train routes.
Southeast Michigan author Niel Lehto digs through old case files and newspapers to deliver a book detailing the rise and fall of Detroit’s streetcar industry and its impact on the city’s historical development.
Testing begins next year to support 110 miles an hour along Amtrak’s route between Detroit and Chicago. It could shave 30 minutes from the trip.
The Michigan Land Use Institute is exploring the possibility of creating new passenger train service between Ann Arbor and Traverse City, as a way to take some cars off the roads.
The physical remnants of this era are gone, but author Aaron Isaacs got his hands on an impressive wealth of research materials rich in interesting details, stories and images.