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Transportation-needs meeting gathers Beaver Island ideas for BITA study

Also Will there be a New Boat?

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TypeEvent
Date2004-06-30
WithinBeaver Island
ErasModern era
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Event
Date
2004-06-30
Kind
Meeting
Eras
Modern era
Concepts
transportationgovernmentcommunitycommunication
Within
Beaver Island

Summary

On June 30, 2004, two Corradino Group representatives held a public meeting on Beaver Island to gather transportation needs for a BITA study funded by MDOT. The Beacon reported 32 attendees and competing ideas about new service and preserving existing Island transportation.

Evidence limits

The meeting records ideas rather than a final transportation plan, vessel decision, or service change.

Sources

  1. Beaver Beacon, July 2004, "Will there be a New Boat?"
    Reports a June 30 public meeting led by two Corradino Group representatives under a BITA and MDOT-funded transportation-needs study, with 32 attendees and ideas ranging from hovercraft service to preserving existing service. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 2004-07_Beaver-Beacon
  2. The held issue scan confirms the transportation study report.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 2004-07_Beaver-Beacon

Added 7 August 2026. Recent changes

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Beaver Island Archive, “Transportation-needs meeting gathers Beaver Island ideas for BITA study”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-bita-transportation-needs-meeting-2004/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, July 2004, "Will there be a New Boat?" (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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