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Windsor prepares for May Day; living museum remains a main attraction
Windsorites are uniting in celebration of the international labour movement with performance pieces on May Day....
Image • courtesy M-1 Rail
Grabbing Detroit by the rails
Little else evokes Detroit’s status as the Motor City than the annual Woodward Dream Cruise showcasing classic cars down America’s first highway....
Detroit Cargo's Jefferson handlebar bag • photo Marc Bay
Less car, more cargo
Following a year-and-a-half of research and development, Detroit Cargo launched its debut line of leather bicycle bags this spring. ...
• courtesy BioLogic
Digital cycling with BikeBrain
BikeBrain, the iPhone cycling app by developer BioLogic, turns a phone into a bicycle computer for the nerdiest of cyclists....
• photo courtesy Huntco Supply, LLC
Bike racks replace parking spots on Woodward
Cyclists in Detroit will soon be able to park their bikes on Woodward, literally. The first of many bike racks to placed right on the roadway of Woodward Avenue is soon to be installed in Detroit suburb Ferndale in what’s now a parking place in front of Howe’s Bayou restaurant....
• map courtesy City of Windsor
City goes all in on buses and bike lanes with 2013 budget
With a 2013 City budget centered around buses and bikes, many changes are on the way for Transit Windsor’s plans to increase services and a bicycle master plan that’s peddling along....
image courtesy Denver B-Cycle
Wheels in motion for campus/community bike share
With the support of city officials, some environmentally minded students hope to bring a little bit of Copenhagen’s cycle chic to Windsor....
Rideshare: The trend of digital hitchhiking on the cheap
Rideshare has become one of the emerging trends to save gas, money and time, not just for travelling students but Canadians at large....
Port Detroit, the proposed dock for the Windsor-Detroit
Ferry ‘cross the Detroit river?
Plans are underway to create a ferry route between the downtowns of Windsor and Detroit to increase tourism for the region and further integrate the two cities economically....
Stickers challenging the purpose of parking meters have appeared on the devices downtown • photo Jay Verspeelt
New parking mechanism aims to improve the system
Outdated parking enforcement practices finds local government in a neverending cycle of ticketing, fine payments and parking enforcement, reads official-looking guerrilla stickers plastered on some downtown parking meters....
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