David Gifford
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Eastpointe bravely says “screw it. We don’t need a Main Street.” Apparently it would be horrible to turn into another Ferndale, with their walkability, independent businesses & highly sought after real estate. “We prefer to be a pass through, strip mall of a city.”
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Eastpointe City Council rejects controversial 9 Mile Road diet plan
Eastpointe City Council members voted 4-1 Tuesday night against a controversial proposal to narrow part of 9 Mile Road from five lanes to three between Tuscany Avenue and Kelly Road.
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November 21, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Eastpointe bravely says “screw it. We don’t need a Main Street.” Apparently it would be horrible to turn into another Ferndale, with their walkability, independent businesses & highly sought after real estate. “We prefer to be a pass through, strip mall of a city.”
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Reposted by David Gifford
It's not the job of public service ads to sugar-coat the truth and protect drivers' feelings. buff.ly/JySnSF8
Tuesday's Headlines: Soft Focus Edition - Streetsblog New York City
The DOT unveils its latest effort to get car drivers to stop killing us. Plus other news.
nyc.streetsblog.org
November 18, 2025 at 1:05 PM
It's not the job of public service ads to sugar-coat the truth and protect drivers' feelings. buff.ly/JySnSF8
Happy to see that this route would run all the way downtown. Depending on the frequency & schedule it might be faster for me than taking 9 to Woodward to downtown.
NEW ROUTE 100: Hamtramck. Connect Hamtramck to Downtown and area hospitals.
November 18, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Happy to see that this route would run all the way downtown. Depending on the frequency & schedule it might be faster for me than taking 9 to Woodward to downtown.
list 10 random things you like:
🌌 Public Transit
🌌 Hammond B3 Organ
🌌 Cleaning Gutters
🌌 Pizza
🌌 Cats
🌌 Coffee
🌌 Tacos
🌌 Libraries
🌌 Hydrology
🌌 Storms
🌌 Public Transit
🌌 Hammond B3 Organ
🌌 Cleaning Gutters
🌌 Pizza
🌌 Cats
🌌 Coffee
🌌 Tacos
🌌 Libraries
🌌 Hydrology
🌌 Storms
list 10 random things you like:
🌌 mythology
🌌 headphones
🌌 60-70F weather
🌌 ice cream
🌌 zoos
🌌 museums
🌌 popcorn
🌌 fantasy/sci-fi art
🌌 eating out by myself
🌌 lemonade
🌌 mythology
🌌 headphones
🌌 60-70F weather
🌌 ice cream
🌌 zoos
🌌 museums
🌌 popcorn
🌌 fantasy/sci-fi art
🌌 eating out by myself
🌌 lemonade
list 10 random things you like:
🌌 hanging out with online friends
🌌 reading
🌌 writing
🌌 playing games with partner
🌌 music
🌌 winter storms with heavy rain
🌌 timtams
🌌 swordfighting
🌌 collecting rocks
🌌 my friends being happy
🌌 hanging out with online friends
🌌 reading
🌌 writing
🌌 playing games with partner
🌌 music
🌌 winter storms with heavy rain
🌌 timtams
🌌 swordfighting
🌌 collecting rocks
🌌 my friends being happy
November 16, 2025 at 5:28 AM
list 10 random things you like:
🌌 Public Transit
🌌 Hammond B3 Organ
🌌 Cleaning Gutters
🌌 Pizza
🌌 Cats
🌌 Coffee
🌌 Tacos
🌌 Libraries
🌌 Hydrology
🌌 Storms
🌌 Public Transit
🌌 Hammond B3 Organ
🌌 Cleaning Gutters
🌌 Pizza
🌌 Cats
🌌 Coffee
🌌 Tacos
🌌 Libraries
🌌 Hydrology
🌌 Storms
From west riverfront rail yard to Ralph Wilson Park, it’s been quite a glow up.
October 27, 2025 at 1:32 AM
From west riverfront rail yard to Ralph Wilson Park, it’s been quite a glow up.
Concept vs. Reality ✅ The Ralph C. Wilson Centennial Park opens this weekend with a Harvest Fest Celebration (10/25-26). Where to park? There's on street parking along Jefferson & Fort, the former Joe Louis Garage or take DDOT#19, MoGo or People Mover! detroitriverfront.org/plan-your-vi...
Ralph C. Wilson, Jr. Centennial Park - Parks & Greenways | Detroit Riverfront Conservancy
Opening Fall 2025, Ralph C. Wilson, Jr. Centennial Park is a 22-acre destination on the Detroit Riverfront featuring play areas, a water garden, a Sport House, and scenic, tree-lined paths.
detroitriverfront.org
October 22, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Concept vs. Reality ✅ The Ralph C. Wilson Centennial Park opens this weekend with a Harvest Fest Celebration (10/25-26). Where to park? There's on street parking along Jefferson & Fort, the former Joe Louis Garage or take DDOT#19, MoGo or People Mover! detroitriverfront.org/plan-your-vi...
Speaking of restaurants on Woodward, I wonder what's happening with the old Pasquale's site on Woodward? Its been 1.5 years since they announce a Big Boy on the site.
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October 20, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Speaking of restaurants on Woodward, I wonder what's happening with the old Pasquale's site on Woodward? Its been 1.5 years since they announce a Big Boy on the site.
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I appreciate the symbolism of the GM sign in Detroit but moving from the entire RenCen to the top few floors of the new Hudson Building isn't the power move they think it is. Besides, everyone knows that GM is really headquartered in Warren.
October 17, 2025 at 2:38 PM
I appreciate the symbolism of the GM sign in Detroit but moving from the entire RenCen to the top few floors of the new Hudson Building isn't the power move they think it is. Besides, everyone knows that GM is really headquartered in Warren.
Despite being gone for decades, you can still see some remnants of the old round house in Milwaukee Junction, Detroit.
September 30, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Despite being gone for decades, you can still see some remnants of the old round house in Milwaukee Junction, Detroit.
Cap project over I-75 could reconnect key parts of downtown: One parking lot district to another... Seriously though, outside of a game or concert, #DistrictDetroit
is a dead zone. Empty parking lots, a few bars & no outward facing businesses. 💀🏟️🅿️💀 @axios.com axios.com/local/detroi... #axiosdetroit
is a dead zone. Empty parking lots, a few bars & no outward facing businesses. 💀🏟️🅿️💀 @axios.com axios.com/local/detroi... #axiosdetroit
Cap project over I-75 could reconnect key parts of downtown
The Detroit road cover plan would reconnect neighborhoods split by I-75.
axios.com
September 26, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Cap project over I-75 could reconnect key parts of downtown: One parking lot district to another... Seriously though, outside of a game or concert, #DistrictDetroit
is a dead zone. Empty parking lots, a few bars & no outward facing businesses. 💀🏟️🅿️💀 @axios.com axios.com/local/detroi... #axiosdetroit
is a dead zone. Empty parking lots, a few bars & no outward facing businesses. 💀🏟️🅿️💀 @axios.com axios.com/local/detroi... #axiosdetroit
Last night a new concept for Belle Isle was revealed. The idea is to turn the area around the Aquarium & Conservatory into a commons where people are encouraged to stay & explore more of the area. You can learn more & take a survey on their website. belleisleconservancy.org
September 16, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Last night a new concept for Belle Isle was revealed. The idea is to turn the area around the Aquarium & Conservatory into a commons where people are encouraged to stay & explore more of the area. You can learn more & take a survey on their website. belleisleconservancy.org
Looks like the answer was 2
Today, Ford will announce their "Model T moment." Curious which part they will emphasize?
1. All factory workers will go back to $5 a day.
2. Their new EV will cost 1/2 of their current EVs.
3. They plan to produce them in Highland Park, MI.
4. None of the above.
1. All factory workers will go back to $5 a day.
2. Their new EV will cost 1/2 of their current EVs.
3. They plan to produce them in Highland Park, MI.
4. None of the above.
a black and white photo of a row of old cars parked in front of a building
ALT: a black and white photo of a row of old cars parked in front of a building
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September 5, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Looks like the answer was 2
Today, Ford will announce their "Model T moment." Curious which part they will emphasize?
1. All factory workers will go back to $5 a day.
2. Their new EV will cost 1/2 of their current EVs.
3. They plan to produce them in Highland Park, MI.
4. None of the above.
1. All factory workers will go back to $5 a day.
2. Their new EV will cost 1/2 of their current EVs.
3. They plan to produce them in Highland Park, MI.
4. None of the above.
a black and white photo of a row of old cars parked in front of a building
ALT: a black and white photo of a row of old cars parked in front of a building
media.tenor.com
August 11, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Today, Ford will announce their "Model T moment." Curious which part they will emphasize?
1. All factory workers will go back to $5 a day.
2. Their new EV will cost 1/2 of their current EVs.
3. They plan to produce them in Highland Park, MI.
4. None of the above.
1. All factory workers will go back to $5 a day.
2. Their new EV will cost 1/2 of their current EVs.
3. They plan to produce them in Highland Park, MI.
4. None of the above.
We love our surface parking > historic places in Detroit.
May 25, 2025 at 1:09 AM
We love our surface parking > historic places in Detroit.
Not cool SMART. 9 Mile bus turned south at Woodward and ditched us to avoid the train by Hilton. Walking to Warren.
May 24, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Not cool SMART. 9 Mile bus turned south at Woodward and ditched us to avoid the train by Hilton. Walking to Warren.
Our senior chihuahua has been officially diagnosed as an old lady, complete with arthritis.
May 22, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Our senior chihuahua has been officially diagnosed as an old lady, complete with arthritis.
Something Hot! Opening reception Friday May 23 at the Detroit Scarab Club behind the DIA. This exhibition is a celebration of artists that are shaping the now & next of Detroit’s art scene. Sounds like a party! @metrotimes.com www.eventbrite.com/e/something-...
Something Hot - Opening Reception
Turns up the heat with
Something Hot: Curated by Christopher Gene!
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May 22, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Something Hot! Opening reception Friday May 23 at the Detroit Scarab Club behind the DIA. This exhibition is a celebration of artists that are shaping the now & next of Detroit’s art scene. Sounds like a party! @metrotimes.com www.eventbrite.com/e/something-...
Once a smoke belching, industrial shoreline, today the skies of Detroit are clearer & its use more recreational.
May 12, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Once a smoke belching, industrial shoreline, today the skies of Detroit are clearer & its use more recreational.
Historians will scold us for having let Fort Wayne rot for decades. So much history in our backyard gone to seed. If this was in any other state, it would be a national park, meticulously restored & staffed with reenactors. Speaking of my dream retirement job, I’d live onsite & restore buildings.
April 28, 2025 at 4:36 AM
Historians will scold us for having let Fort Wayne rot for decades. So much history in our backyard gone to seed. If this was in any other state, it would be a national park, meticulously restored & staffed with reenactors. Speaking of my dream retirement job, I’d live onsite & restore buildings.
Maybe, just maybe, the answer isn't more lanes. But maybe that's a lesson for a different generation.
Ontario added 134 km of lanes to Highway 401. Its key bottleneck didn’t get better
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Ontario added 134 km of lanes to Highway 401. Its key bottleneck didn’t get better | Globalnews.ca
Travel times on Highway 401's bottleneck in Toronto were around 25 minutes in 2016. They worsened to as much as 32 minutes last year and could hit an hour by 2051.
globalnews.ca
April 24, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Maybe, just maybe, the answer isn't more lanes. But maybe that's a lesson for a different generation.
Feeling all the feels today, listening to Beck's 2002 album, Sea Change.
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April 22, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Feeling all the feels today, listening to Beck's 2002 album, Sea Change.
Haley Stevens joins the race to be the next U.S. Senator from Michigan with a pro-car, pro-worker campaign. youtu.be/3uQKr6NOP-s?...
April 22, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Haley Stevens joins the race to be the next U.S. Senator from Michigan with a pro-car, pro-worker campaign. youtu.be/3uQKr6NOP-s?...
Put this in your calendar! Detroit Regional Transit Fantasy Map Support Group.
April 22, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Put this in your calendar! Detroit Regional Transit Fantasy Map Support Group.
In an attempt at rebranding, Romulus is changing its name to Little Wayne.
April 22, 2025 at 2:31 AM
In an attempt at rebranding, Romulus is changing its name to Little Wayne.