The State Street Area of Ann Arbor has a spiffy new website at a2state.com

One of the great things about the site is that it talks about all of the ways you can get to State Street including parking, busing, walking, and biking.

Thanks to Tom Heywood for letting me help with these sections of the website.

The Green Eco Services Website just caught my eye.  One reason is that it lists the getDowntown blog as a green eco blog in Michigan, which is cool.  It also lists a lot of other green eco blogs and resources in Michigan.

What would you do with $50 million dollars?  Yesterday, the Mayor of Ann Arbor and other important folks announced Ann Arbor’s proposal for the 2010 Campaign for Active Transportation.

Ann Arbor was selected as one of more than 40 communties across the country that are in the running for $50 of federal funds to increase active transportation.  Active Transportation is defined as walking or biking to work instead of driving a car.

The Rails to Trails Conservancy is the organization that will be trying to get these federal funds as part of the next Transportation Reauthorization bill.  If Rails to Trails can secure the money, prospects look good for Ann Arbor to get a least a little of the goods for active transportation projects.

You can read Ann Arbor’s 2010 case statement here along with the statements of other communities.

Some of the things Ann Arbor would like to do with this money include providing better pedestrian and bike paths around highway entrances into Ann Arbor, creating a more complete bike system, and creating a greenway so that people can get downtown by walking or biking on a dedicated pathway.

getDowntown was one of the partners that helped provide feedback on this case statement.

For those of you wondering if and when we will get the $50 mil, well, that’s kind of up in the air.  But if we do get the money, I’ll be sure to let you know on this blog.