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"This is consistent with an increase that we're seeing in bike riding as we build out buffered, separated bike lanes," one Ann Arbor official said.
> A record-high 10,500-plus trips were clocked along one small stretch of one downtown Ann Arbor bikeway during the month of July, new data shows. > > An online dashboard for the Division Street bikeway just south of Catherine Street shows rider counts there have gone up from 8,681 in May to 10,138 in June, and now 10,502 for July.
I was on vacation recently and Apple Maps gave a weirdly circuitous route from our hotel to a restaurant. I checked Google Maps and it showed the direct route I expected, so I went with that.
Google Maps routed me on to a street that was closed due to construction, Apple Maps was smart enough to route around the construction.
I expect general parity between Apple and Google Maps, I had not expected Apple to have better data.
As Ann Arbor pushes for mixed-use development, ground-floor retail spaces sit empty
When the South Main Market was demolished seven years ago, many Ann Arbor residents mourned the loss of a popular neighborhood retail strip.
The developer redeveloping the South Main Street site vowed to replace what was lost with new retail spaces on the ground floor of an upscale apartment building rising six stories.
Ann Arbor renters left scrambling with months-long construction delays on new apartments
> Months-long construction delays have left would-be tenants of a new Ann Arbor apartment development in limbo and searching for alternative housing arrangements. > > The 286-unit, phase-two building of the Beekman on Broadway project off Broadway Street and Maiden Lane — just down the street from Michigan Medicine and the University of Michigan medical campus — was supposed to begin welcoming tenants before the start of the new school year Aug. 28.
The measures, if passed, not only demand carbon-free energy by 2035, they also help ensure that under-represented communities can enjoy the benefits of solar energy resources.
> Clean energy should not be treated like a privilege. > > Michigan is making impressive strides toward building a clean energy future. Legislators have introduced proposals to cut pollution and grow the economy by investing in 100 percent, carbon-free electricity by 2035. These proposals deserve our full support because they also do something that utilities and policymakers traditionally neglected: help ensure that underserved, under-represented communities also enjoy the benefits of a clean energy future. > > What does this mean? > > It means that lower-income households and communities of color have access to solar energy resources.
The campaign for public power in Ann Arbor continued Sunday with an emergency town hall after recent extended outages
ANN ARBOR, MI — After enduring another days-long power outage, at least the second of the year for many, Ann Arbor residents aired frustrations at an emergency town hall Sunday.
“One thing I’ve discovered in talking to people here is that people from Ann Arbor don’t realize that how often these outages happen is unusual,” said Ann Arbor resident Kieran Hawthorne, who said she grew up in New England and never experienced outages like this until she came to southeast Michigan.
“This does not happen anywhere else,” she said, adding she can count on one hand the number of outages she experienced in 20 years living in New England and can’t recall a time when the power was out there for more than 24 hours.
“We had a hurricane, the power did not go out,” she said. “I think the first step to making a change is recognizing that what’s happening is not OK and it’s not normal.”
Execution is what matters, not ideas. Anyone can half-ass an idea and say “I did it first” but whoever comes along and does it right is who gets remembered.
Detroit has some great suburbs (check out areas like Ferndale and Plymouth/Canton), but don’t write off Detroit based on what you’ve read in the media. A lot of people in Michigan are in the same boat as you and are missing out on what Detroit has to offer because of what they think Detroit is.
It’s really flat here compared to California, you can’t just drive a couple hours to get what you call hills and we call mountains. The Great Lakes are great but they’re not an ocean.
Flights from DTW are more expensive than from big cities. It’s funny that Detroit is 2,000 miles closer to Europe than SFO, but flights to Europe from SFO are cheaper.
We started getting wildfire smoke from Canada this year, but I imagine we’re still doing better than SoCal.
California is still more progressive than Michigan, but we also don’t have as much craziness around ballot initiatives.
I adore Detroit, but it’s no LA or SF. Chicago is about 4 hours away.
A lot of people in Michigan are expecting the state population to boom in the coming decades. No earthquakes or hurricanes, minimal wildfires and tornadoes. Lots of access to fresh water.
We passed a ballot initiative in 2018 that made an independent committee draw up congressional districts and wouldn’t you know it, the state suddenly went blue when no one could gerrymander anymore! Legal recreational weed, legal abortion, free school lunches, the progressives are moving fast with the new majority.
What area all depends on how much winter you can take. Detroit-Ann Arbor area is probably the mildest, followed by Grand Rapids-Kalamazoo (great cities, lake effect snow storms), Up North (even worse snow) and da UP (Marquette is amazing but if you don’t like snow sports you’ll go insane).
$500k will but you a great house in some suburbs or a decent house in a hot market.
The Michigan Department of Insurance and Financial Services (DIFS) will now require insurance companies based within the state to report their climate-related risks and mitigation strategies to the national climate risk disclosure survey. Michigan will join 26 other states who require providers to ...
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Oxford will partner with Saline landscaping company A&H Lawn Services to invest in equipment serving one-third of Oxford's commercial portfolio this year, another third next year, and the final third in 2025.
Ann Arbor real estate management company Oxford Companies recently announced a new initiative to use all electric landscaping equipment on all of Oxford's commercial properties by 2025. Oxford will partner with Saline landscaping company A&H Lawn Services to invest in equipment serving one-third of Oxford's commercial portfolio this year, another third next year, and the final third in 2025.
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One of the things I find most interesting about solarpunk is that it embraces technology. Not any technology, mind you; people are very…
To be clear, this creates a separate Pixelfed account, it just uses your Mastodon info for quick profile setup and authentication.
Out of the loop: what’s going on with female disc golfers?
You can tell the moment you get onto Michigan highways. We are building more lanes when we can afford to maintain the ones we have.
Attached: 1 image An Air Quality Action Day is in effect for Sunday July 16th for elevated levels of fine particulate (PM2.5) due to wildfire smoke moving into Michigan. For more info: http://www.deqmiair.org
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Also, the nice thing about libraries, frameworks, and CMSs is that they already have documentation. If it seems like a pain to learn one of those, imagine how much worse it would be for someone to learn custom code that doesn’t have any resources on Google.
As of 2020, the Monroe plant is the 6th dirtiest power plant in the country. I'm glad that they're planning to get off coal. I wish DTE would stop crippling residential solar with their rate structures though.
The utility, which is Michigan’s largest electricity provider, will get off coal by 2032, three years earlier than previously planned. That still lags two years behind the goals set forth in Gov. Whitmer’s climate plan.
- In a settlement announced Wednesday, DTE Energy has agreed to stop using coal-fired power by 2032
- That’s three years earlier than previously planned
- It still doesn’t align with a state goal to ditch coal by 2030.
Mackinac Island is battling e-bike violators with seizures and tickets. Ferry services are warning visitors of the ban.
It would make all states politically irrelevant, which means that a vote in California would be worth the same as a vote in Wyoming. Under the electoral college, a Wyoming vote is worth 3x a California vote.
It also only goes into effect only if it removes other swing states’ influence. It’s not like Michigan is going to give up its status while Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Florida continue to be swing states.
It’s also weird that since 1992, only one Republican presidential candidate has won the national popular vote, and yet 3 have won election (counting W twice). That doesn’t sound like a healthy democracy.
It's already happening: US Internal Refugee Crisis: 130-260k Trans People Have Already Fled
For personal activity logs, !ObsidianMD@lemmy.world with a synced folder. It could probably work for a team too.
An plugin which help you to automatically manage Obsidian. - GitHub - edonyzpc/personal-assistant: An plugin which help you to automatically manage Obsidian.
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A better discussion venue for people living and working in Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
!annarbor@lemmy.world looks pretty active
Tree Town leaders have worked to secure $1 million in funding for the development of a splash pad at Southeast Area Park.
Tree Town leaders have worked to secure $1 million in funding for the development of a splash pad at Southeast Area Park on Ellsworth Road.
The area is being developed as part of the city’s efforts to celebrate its 200th birthday. It was chosen by the Ann Arbor City Council in May to become the city’s Bicentennial Park and is slated to receive upgrades including a universal-access splash pad, a new shelter, sensory trails and a sculpture garden.
Remembering the boom and bust of the Mac platform — and what it means for visionOS.
Keaton Brandt: Remembering the boom and bust of the Mac platform — and what it means for visionOS.
A self-hosted digital asset manager for 3d print files - GitHub - Floppy/van_dam: A self-hosted digital asset manager for 3d print files
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The state’s decision to stop funding driver’s education and high private driver’s education costs may be contributing to many Michigan teens delaying getting their driver’s licenses.
- 56 percent of Michigan teenagers had driver’s licenses in 2021, down from 66 percent in 2000
- Reasons for the decline include being too busy to learn and high car ownership costs
- Cuts in driver’s ed funding may be disproportionately impacting Black and low-income teens