Last week in Lansing: HB 5969 would allow transit providers access to MDOT carpool lots. Plus: The reintroduction of peer-to-peer car sharing regulations, and emergency funds for road and bridge repairs. Buses in Carpool Lots, Car Sharing | #MILegTransitcoreyrowe.me/2024/09/26/m...

The final SMARTer Mobility input session (for now) is tonight at 6pm on Zoom. Register here. www.smarter-mobility.org/events/scena...

Scenario Review Online Public Meeting — SMARTer Mobility

see tracks think (more passenger) train(s)

At the September MARP meeting, Mark Buckley shared his experiences as an Amtrak station agent in Ohio and Michigan. Plus: An update on the status of various rail improvement projects across the state. 🎩 The Life of a Station Agent | The Café Car coreyrowe.me/2024/09/07/marp-membership-meeting

It's really been a year this week since I joined this butterfly app?

My blog is one year old – and it has a fresh coat of paint to celebrate. The NEW Café Car is open and serving! Thanks to Ivy (@ivyrze on GitHub) for rebuilding the site's foundation from scratch and designing the new UI. The transit adventures will return this fall 🚆 coreyrowe.me

🚨 CALL TO ACTION: MDOT is holding an open house for the Michigan Avenue redesign in Corktown, which is facing opposition from local businesses. We need transit riders to show up and support the bus lanes! Thurs. 9/12 4:30p-7p, Gaelic League. Presentation at 5:30. www.detroittransit.org/MichiganAve/

Save the Bus Lanes: Support a Multimodal Michigan Ave! - Transportation Riders United

Written by Mitchell Mantey, a Detroiter, bus rider, TRU volunteer, and member of TRU’s Board of Directors.  What is more important – the safe and convenient movement of people or pavement type and sto...

PSA: If anyone ordered a Pluslife reader that came with a Type C power adapter manufactured in June or July (pictured), check your email. The supplier identified a defect that may result in power instability and free replacements are being issued. In the meantime, use USB power.

New from me: Out of control COVID means permanent segregation for many disabled people "Immunocompromised people are under constant siege, with levels of disease unseen in modern times being normalized in all public spaces." Read here: t.co/3LtA3YECyG

Out of control COVID means permanent segregation for many disabled people

Millions of people cannot afford a(nother) COVID infection. Forever waves of COVID means permanent isolation for us