I am also very passionate about #Engineering and #Manufacturing#Education - as such, I am working on a personal project called ManufacturingOpen which I hope to reveal soon.
@adamjcook
Zweimal links den Gang runter findest du die Teeküche. Natürlich auch Kaffee, Kekse und alle sonstigen Getränke inklusive alkoholfreiem Weißbier. Da kannst du auch Lunch bestellen.
Wichtig: Finger weg von der Spülmaschine, da darf nur Louise dran! @MaJ1
I live in Downtown Detroit which helps to go #CarFree quite a bit since, for the time being, the city is cut up by highways (although there are serious plans moving forward to deal with that).
I work from home which helps quite a bit too.
Grocery shopping is a bit of trek still, as the nearest full-line grocery store is about a 1-1/2 mile walk. I do not mind it at all personally since I like the exercise.
Still, we could use a grocery store in the core downtown area.
@jeremiak Sadly, regional rail is not a thing in #Detroit - instead, there is an extensive network of buses (perhaps unsurprisingly for The Motor City).
@adamjcook I'm actually in A2 for a graduation and took the bus right from the Detroit airport to the city and it was just as easy and as quick as BART from SFO!
@jeremiak The Q-Line, an inter-city light rail line, was recently launched. That helps connect the Downtown #Detroit area to the northern areas of Midtown and New Center.
That is a free service and I take that often.
We also have an elevated, "People Mover" automated train that loops around the core downtown area. Unfortunately, though, the People Mover fare system is perplexingly not integrated into the other Detroit-based transit options - relying on coins and tokens.
@jeremiak I was thinking about getting a bike, but for the time being, I feel strongly that I can walk pretty comfortably to just about everything.
That said, #Detroit seems to be investing significantly in bike-dedicated greenways and trails that should further connect the core downtown area to other neighborhoods in the north.
@jeremiak All the entertainment and restaurants one could want are in walking distance of downtown, as well as, every major #Detroit-area sports venue.
All of this was quite impractical or simply unavailable when I lived in Downtown #Dallas - and I was forced to get a car.
@adamjcook Thanks for sharing all of this! I too hate driving (though I think I hate the consequences of automobile supremacy more than being behind the wheel) and am excited to check out the active/public transit options in Detroit. I'll be there on Monday actually. Might just ride the Q-Line for the heck of it
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