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Cars, Bus Fares, Parking Rates And Bridges Plus 6 Things To Know

Busy show for you podcast listeners today. Ford is laying off 1,000 employees at the Flat Rock Assembly Plant, but offering them positions in other Ford plants, with about half expected to take jobs at the Livonia Transmission plant. Meanwhile, GM is adding 1,000 jobs at Flint Assembly to make heavy-duty Chevy and GMC trucks. Those jobs will be offered first to workers affected by the looming closure of four plants in the U.S., including two here in the Detroit area.

Elsewhere, Ferndale is doubling rates for all downtown metered parking starting April 1. That's to help pay for the dot, the…

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