Weekend Hot Links: Transportation Odyssey Edition

Week of April 8-14: How Detroit’s consent agreement affects bicyclists; what it’s like getting around Michigan sans car; a recreation of the Titanic; Mackinac Island shakes off winter; and Detroit as the new tech hub.

• Why Americans are part of the health care problem (CBS MoneyWatch)
• Digital Renaissance: 3 Signs Detroit Is the Next Tech Hub (Black Enterprise)
• A cycling perspective on the Detroit Consent Agreement (m-bike.org)
• A three-hour tour? Not if you’re using public transportation (Second Wave)
• Titanic Exhibit Docks At The Henry Ford (Great Lakes Gazette)
• Spring Cleaning (Mackinac Island Gal)

And from the “to each his own” category, meet the guy who lives — legally — in Detroit’s abandoned Packard Plant:

Photo by amtrak_russ