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A screenshot of a tweet of a Local WDIV Channel 4 news van blocking the two-way bike lanes on Bagley Avenue in Southwest Detroit near the MIchigan Central Station project on a chilly and overcast fall evening.

What, Me Block A Bike Lane? Trouble at Ford’s Ziggurat of Mobility

November 21, 2022November 21, 2022 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments bagley st., bike lane, bike lanes, detroit police, detroit police department, economic development, Ford, ford motor company, liberty sheet metal, mannik smith, mcs, michigan central, Michigan Central Station, protected bike lanes, public safety, safe streets, sharrow, sharrows, street safety, traffic control devices, traffic enforcement

The Blue Oval scores another kind of big, fat, blue oval, rotated 90°, for its commitment to walkability and bikeability in the new Michigan Central Station project.

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Sustainability Mobility Energy Tech

Move Over, Trucks: It’s Time For Smaller Delivery Solutions

October 14, 2022October 14, 2022 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments bike infrastructure, carbon footprint, cargo bikes, decarbonizing transportation, drayage, drone, drone delivery, drones, ebike, ebikes, electric bicycle, electric bikes, electric cargo bikes, electric mobility, electric trucks, electric vehicles, emobility, EVs, fleet electrification, green transportation, mobility, mobility innovation, mobiltiy, quadricopter, tech bros

Delivery drones, we are told, will change everything. There are some hurdles, but according to recent research, drones might just be the best bet for most– but not all- local delivery.

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Mobility Public Health Public Safety

NTSB: Breathalyzers in All Cars?

September 21, 2022 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments 2020 roadway fatalities, 2021 roadway fatalities, 2022 roadway fatalities, alcohol, alcohol abuse, breathalyzer, cafe standards, car culture, car safety, cars, decreased vmt and increased fatalities, defensive driving, dot, drinking, driving fatalities, drunk driving, jackie walorski, los angeles travel nurse crash, national transportation safety board, safe driving, safety, substance abuse, USDoT, vmt

A recent release from the National Transportation Safety Board is suggesting that the federal government is considering developing new requirements

Policy Urban Planning Mobility Parking Government

Ann Arbor Axes Parking Minimums. In Michigan, That’s Huge.

August 17, 2022August 17, 2022 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments ann arbor, Density, detroiters for parking reform, donald shoup, far, parking, parking garage, parking lots, parking policy, parking policy reform, parking policy reform network, parking pricing, parking space, parking spaces, parking structures, property tax revenue, shoupista, street parking, strongtowns, tax revenue, the high cost of free parking, urban heat island, which cities have eliminated parking minimums

The city of Ann Arbor officially abolished parking minimums yesterday with the passage of an amendment to the city’s development

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Urban Planning Mobility Michigan Midwest

Infrastructure: Think Outside The Smartphone-Driven Profit Motive

July 1, 2022July 1, 2022 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments autonomous vehicles, CASE, chip shortage, connected autonomous shared electric, effects of covid on transit, effects of covid19 on transit, Electric cars, elon musk, farebox recovery ratio, Ford, ford f-150, Ford F150, ford motor company, FRR, future of mobility, general motors, GM, mary barra, MEDC, midwest, new mobility, semiconductor shortage, smart cities, smart city, smartcities, smartcitiesworld, Tesla, transit, trevor pawl, triple zero, zero emissions vehicles

One of Michigan’s most visible mobility spokespeople recently said in a webinar that smartphone ownership and profitable markets were the two hindrances to developing sustainable mobility solutions in the state. It’s a politically horrific, functionally dubious, but baffling thing to say.

Urban Planning Mobility Public Safety

Washington, DC’s Big Car Tax Is A Novel, Necessary Approach To Traffic Fatalities.

June 7, 2022June 7, 2022 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments angie schmitt, automobiles, bloomberg, cars, complete streets, cyclist fatalities, david zipper, dc vision zero, department of transportation, district of columbia, dmv, dot, florida, high and mighty, keith bradsher, mdot, muriel bowser, pedestrian fatalities, public safety, rate of pedestrian fatalities, right of way, safe streets, street safety, streets, vision zero, warshington, warshington dc, Washington DC, we've got a delegation, why is food in dc so expensive

Pedestrian and cyclist safety has a new potential ally in the form of an annual registration tax for huge, heavy cars.

Detroit Book Reviews Mobility Sustainability Climate Michigan

Book Review: Women Driven Mobility by Katelyn Davis and Kristin Shaw

April 26, 2022April 25, 2022 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments climate change, decarbonization, Detroit, Electric cars, electric vehicles, electrification, emily wasley, fisker, Gretchen Whitmer, jessica robinson, karma, katelyn davis, kristin shaw, lordstown, michigan, mobility, nikola, Tesla, transportation decarbonization, transportation electrification, TSLA, women-driven mobility, wsp

Nat looks at a new book by Katelyn Davis and Kristin Shaw about women in the mobility and transportation space, and asks whether a politics of benevolent incrementalism is going to help us solve the climate crisis.

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Urban Planning Mobility Public Safety

“Bike Lanes Are Against My Morals,” Says Ohio Woman

February 9, 2022February 9, 2022 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments bexley, bexley ohio, bike, bike lanes, columbus, columbus ohio, livability, ohio, protected bike lanes, retrofitting the suburbs, roads, sharrow, sharrows, street, streets, suburban sprawl, suburbs, the profoundly disappointing gesturalism of the sharrow, walkability

The economics of parking are simple. Convincing community members, though? Sometimes not so much.

Business & Economics Mobility Energy

GM Vision Zero: Joe Biden and Mary Barra, Fiddling While The World Burns

November 18, 2021November 18, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments bbb, building back better, cafe standards, car culture, congestion, electric car, electric hummer, electric vehicle tax credit, ev tax credit, ford f150 electric, ford f150 lightning, ford mach-e, ford mustang mach-e, GM hummer EV, hamtramck, hummer ev, joe biden, mary barra, mdot, mustang mach-e, pedestrian fatalities, pedestrian safety, poletown, rivian, suv, suvs, Tesla, triple zero bottom line, vision zero, vmt, vmt reduction, who killed the electric car

As British Columbia excavates houses, roads, and, tragically, bodies, from the aftermath of catastrophic flooding, the President was in Detroit yesterday to tout the virtues of a 9,000-lb. electric car that, liberals apparently believe, will solve climate change.

Mobility Public Safety

“We’ve Got A Delegation, Bro”: Exemptions to DC Law, If You’ve Got The Money

November 12, 2021November 12, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments cadillac, Cadillac Escalade, cager, cagers, car culture, cars, cycling, cycling infrastructure, cycling safety, dc pedestrian fatalities, dc vision zero, driver, drivers, escalade, four seasons hotel dc, four seasons total landscaping, general motors, georgetown, georgetown dc, pedestrian safety, safe streets, sidewalks, suv, suvs, vision zero, vision zero dc, walkability, walking

Car culture sucks. Even in the nation’s capital, where the city doesn’t seem able to prevent cars from parking all over sidewalks, at bus stops, and its drivers from telling you that they’re allowed to, because.

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