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Recharging the Aquifer Underneath Detroit’s Transit Desert

January 5, 2022January 5, 2022 Martha Connell 0 Comments DDOT, ddot cuts, ddot detroit, ddot driver shortage, ddot funding, ddot routes, Detroit, duggan, duggan administration, economic development, labor, metro detroit, michigan, QLINE, regional transit authority, regioonal transit authority, RTA, rta michigan, rta millage, SMART, transit, transit service, wages

Martha Connell looks at some hard questions about the future of Detroit’s transit.

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“You’re Entitled For Suggesting People Take Public Transportation Instead Of Stranding Themselves On I-95” – Midatlantic Liberals

January 4, 2022January 4, 2022 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments amtrak, Amtrak NEC, blizzard, dc blizzard, disaster capitalism, dominion, dominion energy, Fairfax, Fairfax County, fredericksburg, fredericksburg virginia, i-95, i-95 corridor, i-95 virginia, infrastructure, interstate 95, king george county, national guard, nec, northeast corridor, northern virginia, Prince William County, public transit, snowstorm, Stafford County, transit, transit between dc and fredericksburg, transit between dc and virginia, transportation, twitter, VDOT, Vienna, virginia, virginia blizzard, Virginia Railway Express, VRE, VREx, waffle house index, weather, wmata

A rare, intense blizzard in the Midatlantic US snarled traffic on I-95, leading us to wonder: how is the car obsession even so engrained on the East Coast that people can’t imagine not driving cars?

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MDOT: Rebrand And Replace. Some Ideas From The MAP Conference.

October 28, 2021October 28, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments aicp, ambassador bridge, american planning association, auto industry, automotive, car culture, cars, chrysler, dan gilbert, dan gilbert industrial complex, EGLE, f150 super duty state of mind, Ford, ford motor company, fossil fuel subsidies, fossil fuels, green stormwater infrastructure, GSI, highways, land of the rising f150 super duty, mami, MAP, matty moroun, MDEQ, mdot, MEDC, MEGA tax breaks, michigan, michigan association of planning, mike duggan, moroun, public transit, rick snyder, road, stellantis, transit, vehicle miles traveled, vmt, vmt reduction, wendy rampson

Nat is attending the Michigan Association of Planning’s annual conference. It’s going great– especially with regard to figuring out new ways to refashion state agencies that aren’t doing their jobs.

the sears tower looms beyond the brutalist campus of the university of illinois chicago, where the summer institute on sustainability and energy (SISE) takes place.

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Best Nerds Podcast No. 2: Innovation and Equity in Transportation

July 14, 2021July 14, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments argonne national lab, best nerds, best nerds on earth, best nerds podcast, bike lanes, bike lanes and gentrification, bike lanes are white lanes, city planning, DDOT, detroit department of transportation, economic justice, equity, ian edward munroe, ian munroe, JCESR, kelsey zlevor, kunal sahasrabuddhe, lisa nuszkowski, Mikki Taylor-Hendrix, mobility, MoGo, mogo detroit, Nat Zorach, public transit, racial justice, summer institute on sustainability and energy, thomas alaan, transit, transit justice, transit organizing, transportation, transportation justice, university of illinois chicago, university of new orleans, Urban planning, wsp

Our second podcast is finally out. I take responsibility for the delay. There were some technical issues I ran into,

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Should We Give Up on The QLINE?

May 13, 2021May 13, 2021 Martha Connell 0 Comments cavsdan, corridor, dan gilbert, dan gilbert industrial complex, foxtown, multimodal, public-private partnership, QLINE detroit, quicken, Quicken Loans, quicken's, rock companies, Streetcars, sugar danny, transit, transit corridor, transit corridors, woodward, woodward corridor

As life has changed dramatically for many over the past year, the workers of Detroit have continued to rely upon

Public transit Cities & Urban Planning Michigan Transit infrastructure

New EGLE Workgroup Wants To Decarbonize Transportation… With Cars

April 15, 2021April 15, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments britta gross, decarbonize transportation, DNR, EGLE, electric vehicles, electrification, electrification of transportation, GHG, greenhouse gas emissions, internal combustion engine, judd herzer, la croix, mdot, Michigan DNR, Michigan EGLE, oil and gas, parsons brinckerhoff, RMI, rocky mountain institute, subaru, todd scott, who killed the electric car, whole foods, wsp

A new statewide workgroup convened by the Michigan Department of Energy, Great Lakes, and Environment, or EGLE, kicked off yesterday

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BUILD GREEN Act Charges Forward With Electric Transit. Is It The Right Move?

March 22, 2021March 23, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments alexandria ocasio-cortez, andy levin, AOC, build green act, DC fast charger, decarbonization, decarbonizing transportation, distributed generation, electric buses, electric charging infrastructure, electric vehicles, electrification, electrification of vehicles, electrifying buses, fleet electrification, fleet vehicles, fossil fuels, grid infrastructure, grid modernization, House of Representatives, IOU's, IOUs, michigan, microgrid, modernizing the power grid, power generation, power grid, power grids, public utilities, rashida tlaib, transit, transit electrification, US Congress

Public utilities are apprehensive about vehicle electrification because it’ll require a huge amount of investment in grid infrastructure. A new legislative proposal to electrify transit systems might make this a bit easier by delivering a big economy of scale.

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Why Do Airports Not Want Us To Have Nice Things?

February 25, 2021February 25, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments accessibility, accessible transit, airport parking, airport revenue, airports, autonomous vehicles, big blue deck, buses, Detroit, detroit airport parking, detroit metro airport, detroit michigan, detroit wayne airport, disruptive innovation, donald shoup, DTW, DTW ground transportation, DTW transit options, DTW transportation, high cost of free parking, litigation, louis armstrong airport, MSY, new orleans, new orleans airport, parking and the city, parking revenue, public transit to detroit airport, self-driving cars, signage, tampa, tampa airport, tampa florida, TPA, transit, transit accessibility, transit to DTW, wayne county

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

February 17, 2021February 17, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments alstom, amtrak, amtrak capex, Amtrak NEC, bad ideas, batman, batman meme, capital expenditures, cato institute, farebox recovery ratio, federal spending, freight, FRR, government bad, government spending, gridlock, high-speed rail, inflation, intermodal, intermodal transit, libertarian, libertarianism, manufacturing, milkshakes, moore's law, multimodal, northeast corridor, northeast corridor tunnel, public transit, randal o'toole, randall o'toole, real clear policy, small government, train, trains, transit

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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What If We Can’t Wait? Public-Private Partnership Solutions for Infrastructure

February 2, 2021February 2, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments amtrak, Amtrak NEC, augean stables, austerity, ben stupka, brooks patterson, BRT, bus, chicago parking meters, dave coulter, Detroit, economic development, FRR, l. brooks patterson, macomb county, MBA, mba capstone, megan owens, metro detroit, michigan, mikel oglesby, mobility infrastructure, new york fear city, oakland county, philanthropic capital, PPP, private sector, public sector, public transit, public-private partnership, regional infrastructure, regional planning, regional transit, regional transit authority, robert moses, RTA, ryan friedrichs, stephanie farmer, transit, transit infrastructure, transportation, transportation riders united, TRU, why is macomb county awful

The RTA is planning on returning in 2022– again- to revisit a ballot measure to fund regional infrastructure investment in Southeast Michigan. Can we wait for 2022? Should we explore alternatives in the meantime?

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