Dennis Kefallinos Owes Half A Million Dollars In Water Bills.
DURING MY BRIEF, 45-MINUTE STINT WORKING IN THE DETROIT BUILDING DEPARTMENT, I remember a day when a slick, older gentleman
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Cities & Urban Planning
Tech Launched A Big Push To Fix Cities. What Happened?
Sidewalk Labs (Google), AirBnB, and Y Combinator all launched ambitious initiatives to build the technologically advanced, equitable, sustainable cities of tomorrow. What happened?
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Mispricing the Chevrolet Bolt, And Other Strange Corporate Decisions
The Chevrolet Bolt originally sold poorly. It’s now selling well, but at an average of a 30% discount off its full MSRP. Maybe that suggests it wasn’t priced right to begin with.
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The “Mobility” Council’s Report: Buy A Car, Peasants
The Michigan Council on Future Mobility and Electrification said that Google’s Cavnue project is “one of the most ambitious mobility initiatives in history.” We looked through the history books and picked our top four competitors.
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Why Do Airports Not Want Us To Have Nice Things?
Detroit’s airport has historically had some problems with accessibility, especially to transit. This is a problem, because of the airport’s reliance on parking revenues. But there are some options!
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Cato Needs To Re-Toole Their Bad Takes On Infrastructure
The Cato Institute’s Randal O’Toole has a really terrible take on transportation investment that grossly misrepresents how money and economic efficiency work.
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In Search Of Cheap, Scalable Solutions For Grid Resiliency
The extreme weather event affecting about two thirds of the United States right now suggests the need for small-scale interventions that can be scaled over an entire market.
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Man and the Motor Car: A Historical Glance
I took a virtual road trip with Man and the Motor Car, a spectacularly awful volume published in 1959 by
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A Common-Sense Rezoning Hits Billionaire Resistance
The billionaire Moroun family’s trucking empire, which also owns the Ambassador Bridge, is pushing for a controversial zoning measure that would allow them to develop a trucking depot in Southwest Detroit. Residents do not favor the effort, and the city has declined to enforce its own ordinances to stop them from starting development. (Guest piece by Dion Thompson-Davoli).
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EV Charging Infrastructure: From Demand To Reality
One of our readers asked us to write a piece about how electric vehicle chargers even get installed at scale.
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