Two-Way State Street Tweaks Coming
By Bill O'Brien | Aug. 22, 2026
A month after Traverse City commissioners narrowly approved permanent two-way traffic flow on State Street downtown, the city’s Downtown Development Authority will try and make it work better.
The DDA Board on Friday unanimously approved a contract of up to $20,000 with Progressive Companies “to identify and prioritize some of the first-phase modifications needed to support the continued two-way configuration,” according to a board memo from DDA Executive Director Harry Burkholder.
The city commission’s 4-3 vote in July to approve permanent two-way traffic on State and Pine streets and part of Boardman Ave. followed a 3-year pilot project administered by the DDA that ended decades of one-way, west-to-east traffic flow …
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