Climate Leadership Conference: Decarbonizing Transportation, One Electric SUV At A Time?
One recurring theme at last week’s Climate Leadership Conference was the topic of decarbonizing the transportation sector. Transportation accounts for
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Cities & Urban Planning
A Night Out in Jessica Cabot’s Los Angeles
Nat tours Hollywood, the Hollywood Hills, Sunset Boulevard, and Griffith Observatory with a native Angeleno, and even manages to eat an obscene amount of chili cheese fries.
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Los Angeles Trip: In the Popular Imagination
It’s always interesting to trace the origins of our first imagined memories of unfamiliar places. Stereotypes abound– often unfortunate and
Read MoreYouLam No. 3 – Combat Midwinter Malaise With Good Journalism!
After a long stretch of tepid gloom, winter has hit like the gabbagool. It’s the latest YouLam. Here’s the news:
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Transportation Bonanza 11: The Rural, The Urban, And The MDOT
Nat takes a snowy Thursday trip to the capital to attend the Transportation Bonanza in Lansing with other planners, engineers, and nerds.
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It’s Not Infrastructure If It’s Just Roads
I spoke with Brian Calley on proposals to fix the damn roads– and to understand whether Republicans might consider transit a good complement.
Read MoreLessons from Tampa: How Transit Funding Works
Transit funding is a messy topic. This article is a brief primer exploring benefits and drawbacks of various sources.
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RTA Bus vs. a Train Between Ann Arbor and Detroit? (Part 2)
One of my readers observed that she was a bit bummed out by the “yeah, but it simply can’t work
Read MoreCompanies Have Spent $16 Billion On Autonomous Vehicles
Handbuilt co-conspirator Tom Van Heeke (GM) shared this with me via a tweet on the subject this morning– that companies
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Travel Writing: Density, Mobility, and Dreams of a Better New York
I spent the long MLK weekend in New York City for some family visits, friend visits, professional prospecting, and some
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