ABOVE Russ Soyring retired a year ago from his 35-year career as Traverse City Planner. We walked with Russ around town and asked him to reflect on, among other things, the joy (and resilience value) of a good sidewalk. Photo by Jeff Smith. Russ Soyring guided the...
I started riding BATA’s Bayline bus route recently, and I’m hooked! I love it, and I think you may too. After a year plus of working from home and spotty internet at my new house, I needed a change of scenery and started going into the downtown office a couple of...
Want to get involved in bringing more transportation options to Emmet County? There’s a big push underway to create a new authority that would provide transit services to communities all over Emmet County. I recently moved to northern Michigan, and I’ve often wondered...
As the pandemic ebbs and people around the planet resurrect their back-burnered travel plans, our transportation team at Groundwork is putting fresh energy into the Ann Arbor to Traverse City passenger rail project. For extra assistance, we invited college senior and...
In case you haven’t already heard, Northern Michigan is in desperate need of more housing, specifically housing that is priced to be more affordable. A recent Housing North study found that the 10-county region in Northwest Lower Michigan could use at least 3,000 new...
This forum first ran in the Traverse City Record-Eagle. Above photo by Beth Price. As the pandemic eases and downtown Traverse City reopens to locals, workers and visitors — and traffic and parking demand rise in response — the coming years present an ideal time...