Imagine Detroit in the year 2025.
Do you picture a desolate wasteland of broken-down cars and dilapidated buildings?
Or can you see vibrant, successful neighborhoods linked by convenient, high-quality rapid transit?
If you envision the latter, the Transportation Riders United design contest – Detroit in Transit: Visions of a Region on the Move – is for you. We’re seeking exciting designs of Detroit’s future transit and transit-oriented neighborhoods.
Given the value of effective visuals in sparking public imagination, these designs will help to launch a broad regional dialogue and build public understanding of the role of rapid transit in urban revitalization and the creation of vibrant walkable communities.
For National Transportation Week, we invite artists, designers, urban planners, architects, students and others to submit designs of what Detroit’s transit and transit-oriented neighborhoods could look like in 2025. There are three contest categories:
– Designs of transit vehicles on a streetscape
– Architectural designs of transit stations in a streetscape
– Urban planning designs of vibrant neighborhoods or intersections around transit stations or stops
Designs are due to Transportation Riders United by April 30. Finalists in each category will be selected and displayed at a gala event during National Transportation Week, May 13-18.
For design parameters and contest details, register for the contest. You will receive an email within 3 days with contest details.