SWDetroit.com is currenting hosting two websites in their development phase: How to edit websites and Milwaukee Interurban.
How to edit websites is a primer on the various aspects of designing, editing, or maintenance of websites. Milwaukee Interurban deals with Milwaukee's experience of its local, suburban, and intercity rapid transit that endured for a bit more than a half century that ended during the early 1960s. Milwaukee Interurban primarily deals with its mostly local rapid-transit version instead of the North Shore Line that operated between the downtowns of Milwaukee and Chicago.
Both websites are only partially completed, but in time, they will both become more functional.
Around the time of the advent of the interurban railroads—the late 1890s or early 1900s—both Milwaukee and Detroit were essentially tied in population, twelfth nationally. Detroit's population nearly quadrupled Milwaukee’s during the time that Detroit scrapped its interurbans, whereas Milwaukee kept the very last of its interurbans running until 1963.
I make mention of this in order to partially dispel the myth that rapid or mass transit is vitally important for a municipal economy to succeed. Milwaukee’s interurbans, like those in Detroit, were not really missed as being necessary after their departures, as many mass-transit proponents would want their local taxpayers to believe. Even Detroit with its huge population boom after 1900—unofficially pegged at two million during 1928 or 1929, at the very height of its boom period—could not keep its interurbans financially profitable before 1910, when Detroit’s interurbans started to be shuttered, with its last holdout dying at the height of the Great Depression in 1934.