Recent News
- World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims
The Detroit Greenways Coalition is joining communities around the world in observing the World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims, taking place on November 17th, 2024. This annual observance serves as an opportunity to honor the lives lost and affected by road traffic crashes, raise awareness about road safety, and… Read more: World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims - Our MDOT Five-Year Transportation Plan comments
We submitted the below comments on MDOT’s 2025-2029 Five-Year Transportation Plan. This year we did not have any comments specific to Detroit projects within the plan. However, we did ask how this plan supports and helps meet MDOT’s Toward Zero Deaths goal and Governor Gretchen Whitmer’s Carbon Neutrality… Read more: Our MDOT Five-Year Transportation Plan comments - Making Michigan Ave a Complete Street
CALL TO ACTION! Add you voice at MDOT’s community meeting on Thursday, September 12th, 4:30-7pm at the Gaelic League of Detroit, 2068 Michigan Ave in Corktown. A presentation is scheduled for 5:30pm. PEL Study From 2019 to 2022, MDOT completed a Planning and Environmental Linkages study for redesigning… Read more: Making Michigan Ave a Complete Street - APBP comes to Detroit
By our reckoning, the last national bicycle conference in Detroit was in 1891 with the League of American Wheelmen. We weren’t overlooked; we just never applied for these conferences. So, last year we submitted an application to bring the Association of Pedestrian and Bicycle Professionals conference to Motown.… Read more: APBP comes to Detroit - Detroit Trails Excluded
Back in 2017, we were made aware that trails within the city of Detroit were not included in the Michigan Trails Magazine — both the print publication and the website — which claims to include “more than 180 of Michigan’s best non-motorized biking, hiking, cross-country skiing, and water… Read more: Detroit Trails Excluded - Right Turns and Bike Lanes
There’s been some misinformation being shared on social media from bicyclists saying that motorists should be “adjacent to the curb, and sometimes that means entering what’s been striped as the ‘bike lane’”. That’s not correct. The cite Michigan Motor Vehicle Code, which says: (1) The driver of a… Read more: Right Turns and Bike Lanes