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Google Maps Needs To Do A Better Job Showing Pedestrian Infrastructure.

September 1, 2021September 1, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments bicycle, bike, bike infrastructure, brookland, cycling infrastructure, cyclist fatalities, dc metro, dc metropolitan branch trail, edgewood, jeff speck, mobility, nonmotorized transportation infrastructure, pedestrian bridges, pedestrian fatalities, pedestrian infrastructure, rhode island, safe streets, walkability, walking, Washington DC, wmata

Cars take center stage on Google Maps, even when you’re not looking for a driving route. It raises some interesting questions about how maps depict nonmotorized transportation infrastructure.

Mobility Cycling

Strava’s Heat Map Makes The Case For Safer Streets.

March 26, 2021March 26, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments Detroit, GPS tracking, grosse pointe, location data, nonmotorized infrastructure, safe mobility, safe streets, safer streets, safety, strava, strava cycling, strava heat map, strava running

Dion Thompson-Davoli showed us his Strava Heat Map of Detroit. It’s exactly as you would expect– showing a gaping hole of activity in most of the city proper.

Mobility Public Health Public Safety Cities & Urban Planning Cycling

Right of Way: Race, Class, and the Silent Epidemic of Pedestrian Deaths in America

January 25, 2021January 25, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments accessibility, automobile fatalities, automotive infrastructure, autonomous vehicle, autonomous vehicles, car fatalities, car infrastructure, cars, class, cycling, cycling safety, cyclist, cyclists, death, driving, elaine herzberg, elaine herzberg death, elaine herzberg uber, environmental racism, mobility, pedestrian, pedestrian deaths, pedestrian safety, pedestrianization, pedestrians, pedestrians killed, public health, public safety, race, safe mobility, safe streets, self-driving car, single-occupant vehicles, street design, streetscaping, walkability

Angie Schmitt’s Right of Way: Race, Class, and the Silent Epidemic of Pedestrian Deaths in America (2020) is a must-read

Cycling Environment

Don’t Sleep On Electric Bikes

April 24, 2020April 24, 2020 Guest 0 Comments bike commuting, bikes, commuting, cycling, cycling infrastructure, decarbonization, e-bikes, ebikes, electric bikes, electrification, energy, NHTS, policy, radrunner, sustainability

Electric bicycles are a fun, affordable alternative to the motorcar– for commuting

Business & Economics Urban Planning Canada Cycling

Canada Trip III – Leaving Montreal

September 18, 2019November 15, 2019 Nat Zorach 0 Comments anglophone, business, Canada, congestion, francophone, jeune chambre de commerce du quebec, marketing, mobility, montreal, multicultural marketing, publicis, quebec, quebecois, Toronto, urban growth, Urban planning, voxco

We leave Montreal today for Toronto, where we will begin the “extension” portion of our Canada program. Our Montreal trip

Urban Planning Public transit Transit infrastructure Cycling

Whomst Should Bear The Cost? Mobility and the Workplace

October 8, 2018 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments automobile infrastructure, bike commuting, bikes, buses, car insurance, cars, commuting, congestion, DDOT, Detroit, detroit department of transportation, ebikes, infrastructure, MoGo, multimodal, NUMTOTs, public transit, southeast michigan, traffic, transit-oriented teens

I figured I could kick off Detroit Mobility Week with some exploration of a debate currently simmering in my office

Detroit Ontario Windsor Urban Planning Public transit Michigan Transit infrastructure Cycling

Bike The Bridge: Fleeting Dreams of International Bike Transit

October 24, 2017 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments ambassador bridge, bike rides, bikeability, bikes, caesar's windsor, cbp, cbsa, customs and border patrol, Detroit, detroit international bridge company, detroit river, international trade, international transit, matty moroun, transit, transit windsor, walkability, windsor

On Sunday, for the first and possibly the last time, I rode my bike across the Detroit River on the

RAGBRAI 2017!

July 24, 2017 Nat Zorach 0 Comments cycling, iowa, ragbrai

This week, I am riding RAGBRAI, Register’s Annual Great Bike Ride Across Iowa, after talking about doing it for the

Urban Planning Transit infrastructure Cycling

Infrastructure Would Be Nice

June 22, 2017 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments bike infrastructure, cycling infrastructure, Detroit, drew dilkens, highway spending, highways, ontario, walkability, windsor

Last night, in hono(u)r of the solstice, I made a pilgrimage to the Land of the Rising Maple Leaf for