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Uber Scheduled Rides: Make Advanced Reservations


The private car ride company has been hugely popular with providing a driver when you’re on the street and need an immediate ride. Now, with its expanded service, Uber will send a car when you call for future needs from 30 minutes to 30 days.

So far, the new service is limited to several cities. As it becomes available in more locations, riders can make contact thru the app UberX. At the time of the rider’s call, a fee estimate will be quoted. However, as usual, rates will depend on time of day, location, major city events and other factors that may influence prices. For more info, go to uber.com

Detroit MI: Zombie Amusement Park Proposed PDF Print E-mail


Detroit has many attractions, including the Henry Ford Museum, Motown Museum, Zoo, Detroit Institute of the Arts and several upscale casino-hotels. But, with the downturn of the economy, the city has not been high on the list of vacation destinations.

Now, someone in Detroit has come up with an idea to build something that could resemble a haunted Disney amusement park. Tentatively called Z World, it would be inhabited by spooky features and creatures from currently-popular films and TV programs featuring zombies. 

The most interesting and oddest part of the proposal is that the theme park’s setting will be based on stark reality. It would be built on what is now the most blighted, rundown area of the financially- and socially-troubled city. The zombie theme will fit right in with what has become a poverty-haunted war zone. The promoters believe Z World will bring jobs, repairs, new construction, visitor money and many other benefits into an area that badly needs as much help as it can get.

For more information, go to zworlddetroit.com

 
 
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