Water infrastructure in Alberta and Georgia– nay, North America– nay, the entire *world*- is under serious strain from unchecked urban growth, neglect in investment over at least half a century, and, of course, climate change.
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Advocates, volunteers, and municipal officials came together to unanimously push back on a proposal by the Michigan Department of Transportation to widen a section of US-23 between Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti. The agency finally backed down and says it is exploring alternatives that do not involve widening the roadway. Success.
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Hardly a week goes by these days without some sort of disastrous news about climate change, whether domestic or abroad,
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Gather round, children, for Handbuilt story hour. A few years ago at the Michigan Transportation Bonanza, an all-day forum in
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Norfolk Southern shareholders are angry that the company not only blew up a train in rural Ohio, but also that it bragged about its profitability and paid out lavish CEO bonuses just months before the catastrophic derailment.
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What if it were possible for us to have our cake, eat it too, AND save 80% or more on infrastructure costs? No, this isn’t the opening to a late night infomercial– it’s the introduction to a neat little idea called Dig Once!
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The power went out. Then the ice melted. A few days later, the snow came, and the power went out– again. Now that the snow is gone, what’s next?
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To be fair, there’s a lot of weird stuff going on these days. The wealthiest man in the world, with
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In June, my partner took a three-day business trip– her first since before the pandemic hit- to Chicago. I threw
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New streetscaping improvements have turned portions of Grand River Avenue, on Detroit’s West Side, from a street-level freeway into something more closely resembling a real city street that people might be able to safely hang out and shop on.
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