So, which do you want first? Good news or bad news. Yeah, probably best to get the negative stuff out of the way first.
Okay, when it comes to walkability, our region is looking pretty bad. We rank 22 out of the 30 biggest metro regions. Buuuut, as this mlive article points out, we are on the path to turning those rankings around.
Excerpt:
"“While Detroit experienced the most substantial and well-publicized economic decline over the past decade, its future for growth in walkable urban development seems promising,” the report says. “Recently, it experienced some of the fastest-growing GDP and job growth among metros, much of it in revived (walkable urban areas), particularly in downtown and Midtown.”
The report notes that a lightrail line, alluding to the M-1 Rail, will connect what it says are three of the metro area’s walkable urban places: downtown, Midtown and New Center."
Read the bad news
here.
Read the better news
here.
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