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AUGUST 6, 2025 • Vol. 23, No. 18
City Commission chooses new parking system for downtown Royal Oak BY TAYLOR CHRISTENSEN tchristensen@candgnews.com
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Cars drive down Woodward while spectators watch last year. File photos by Donna Dalziel
Woodward Dream Cruise to celebrate 30 years BY TAYLOR CHRISTENSEN
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Cars will be on display at the Performance Park Classic Car Show at Memorial Park at 13 Mile Road and Woodward Avenue.
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ROYAL OAK — The Woodward Dream Cruise is celebrating 30 years of showcasing classic and new cars. The Dream Cruise will take place from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Aug. 16 on a 16-mile stretch of Woodward Avenue involving nine suburban communities. Lee Collick, operations manager for the Department of Public Services for the city of Royal Oak and a Cruise Committee member, said that he will be See CRUISE on page 15A
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ROYAL OAK — The Royal Oak City Commission approved a new metered parking system in a unanimous vote July 14. Flowbird, the new system, will be installed within the next six months. The new system will include 150 solar-powered pay stations from Flowbird, and the mobile payment application ParkMobile. The cost of this project is approximately $888,672, and the city had budgeted $1 million for it. The pay stations will be installed throughout both onstreet and off-street parking locations that will be chosen by city staff. According to the agenda packet, each pay station has an annual service fee of $696, and the ParkMobile app does not require an upfront payment from the city. Instead, users will pay a 35-cent transaction fee, which is reduced to 20 cents when using the ParkMobile wallet. The process of deciding on a new parking system was guided by the Parking System Steering Committee, which included representatives from the City Commission, the