The Ann Arbor City Council is expected to vote tonight to direct staff to explore pedestrian crossing improvements on Washtenaw Avenue and Plymouth Road. The resolution is being sponsored by Mayor John Hieftje, who is pushing for new pedestrian-activated crossing signals to help improve safety conditions on busy city streets.
The scene alongside Plymouth Road northeast of Maiden Lane in Ann Arbor remains an eyesore more than a month after a massive rainstorm caused an embankment failure that buckled the railroad tracks parallel to the road and left the landscape a mess. The tracks have been repaired, and the embankment ...
(Update: City officials announced that Plymouth Road is open again as of early Friday afternoon. See the story here.) Plymouth Road between Barton Drive and Broadway Street is not expected to reopen until midnight as crews continue to clean up from a mudslide Wednesday night in Ann Arbor, authorities said. ...
A former employee is accused of committing a total of four break-ins at two Jimmy John's restaurants between May 10 and Monday, Ann Arbor police said. Mark Hunter, 19, of Pittsfield Township is charged with four counts of breaking and entering at a business, police said.
Ann Arbor Transportation Authority officials held a ceremonial ribbon cutting today, officially marking the grand opening of the agency's fifth commuter park-and-ride lot. Existing AATA park-and-ride facilities already take nearly 1,000 vehicles off the road each year. And with the opening of the new lot on Plymouth Road at US-23, ...
Mo Farha, co-owner and manager of Great Plains Burgers, stands in front of the kitchen during an invitation-only meal Wednesday. | Photo by Dan Meisler To Mo Farha, the fare at his new restaurant Great Plains Burgers is the epitome of Americana."I have a great passion for the American hamburger. ...
Ann Arbor police are investigating a robbery Monday morning at the CVS Pharmacy in the 3500 block of Plymouth Road, a police report said. A man walked in, asked for a carton of cigarettes, then walked around the counter and pushed a female clerk against a cigarette display area, the ...