It's national "don't run red lights week" (who knew?) and yesterday we learned 3.4 percent of traffic crashes in Ann Arbor between 2007 and 2009 were caused by a driver failing to stop on red. Although that translates into 94 crashes, the percentage is still relatively small when considering the ...
State budget constraints are delaying several Washtenaw County road and construction projects. The Michigan Department of Transportation’s proposed 2010-2014 Five-Year Transportation Program lists 243 statewide road projects. They were scheduled to be completed within the next five years, but will now be postponed indefinitely.
Terri Blackmore says the coming years will be rough for Washtenaw County and its roads, with no identified source of funding for hundreds of needed projects. "There's a lot that we are trying to accomplish, but unfortunately our road system is going to continue to get worse," said Blackmore, executive ...
Single-vehicle crashes are the top crash category in Washtenaw County, making up about 34% of all crashes, according to Washtenaw Area Transportation Study data. That's followed by rear end crashes (28.2%) and angle crashes (16.9%), WATS data shows.
Washtenaw County has a thriving bicycling community - some people ride for recreation and others commute to work by bike. There's often discussion of whether certain roads have safe bike lanes, are dangerous to ride on, and whether local communities do enough to support bicycling.
Earlier this week, we brought you a list of the most crash-prone intersections in Washtenaw County. It generated a good conversation about why those intersections made the list. Several commenters wondered whether Carpenter Road and Packard Street was at the top because of the volume of traffic in that area. ...
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