Background Information

Washtenaw Avenue is the primary transportation corridor linking the region's job and education centers. The City of Ann Arbor, Pittsfield Township, Ypsilanti Township and the City of Ypsilanti recognize that Washtenaw Avenue can potentially be transformed using smart growth and transit oriented development (TOD) principles. 

To explore this potential, leaders from local government, business, public interest groups, community service associations and residents have evaluated the potential of the regional corridor to be redeveloped from an auto-oriented suburban commercial throughway to a compact, mixed use transit corridor.

Documents

• Golfside/Washtenaw Target Market Analysis, 2015

• ReImagine Washtenaw Corridor Improvement Study, 2014

• Washtenaw Avenue Design Guidelines, 2014

• Washtenaw Avenue Green Infrastructure Visioning: A Summary of Opportunities, 2012

• Let's Roll: Reimagining Transit on Washtenaw Avenue, 2012

• Corridor Redevelopment Strategy, 2010

• Reimagining Washtenaw Technical Report, 2009

• Washtenaw Avenue Access Management Plan, 2008

Presentations

• Washtenaw Avenue Corridor Green Infrastructure Assessment 

• Michigan Association of Planning Student Conference, 2023

Transit

• The Ride 2045 Long-Range Plan, 2022

• The Ride Draft Washtenaw Bus Rapid Transit Conceptual Operations & Design, 2018

• The Ride Draft Transit Signal Priority (TSP) Evaluation and Recommendations, 2018

• Queue Jump Lane Operation