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Category Archives: Urban Planning
All Aboard, RTA 2020: The Business Case For Transit
I’m moving into the end of the year with an announcement about some exciting upcoming goings-on. RTA 2020: The Business Case For Transit will be a multifaceted initiative to study, analyze, and educate Southeast Michigan about the implications of a … Continue reading
Posted in Business & Economics, Public transit, Transit infrastructure, Urban Planning
Tagged DDOT, detroit department of transportation, macomb county, mdot, regional transit authority, RTA, SEMCOG, southeast michigan, southeast michigan area rapid transit, thehub, Those Macomb County Types
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Challenging The Automotive Paradigm in Reagan Democrat Country
I found out the other night that there are people in Macomb County who actually refer to the Gratiot FAST bus as the “Heroin Express.” Yea, it were 3am, and I couldn’t sleep. So I delved into a Facebook rabbit … Continue reading
Posted in Business & Economics, Public transit, Urban Planning
Tagged 8 mile, ballot initiative, classism, gratiot, leon drolet, macomb county, mark hackel, mass transit, property tax, public transit, racism, regional transit, regional transit authority, RTA, SEMCOG, SMART, transit, transit corridors, transit millage, xenophobia
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Detroit Park City #3: Dog Walks In Morounville
The other day (awhile ago, sorry about the delay), I deviated from my morning routine and took the hound down by the river. I greeted a parishioner entering the prosperity theology church, outside which a Challenger and a Caravan with … Continue reading
Posted in Real Estate, Urban Planning
Tagged delray, detroit international bridge company, detroit park city, detroit river, Detroit riverfront, fort street, gordie howe bridge, jefferson avenue, matty moroun, mexicantown, parking lots, real estate development, southwest detroit, surface parking, underground parking
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Happy Birthday, Ambassador Bridge!
The Ambassador Bridge, or, Moroun’s Folly, as I call her, is 90 years young today. We commemorate this iconic landmark– and textbook example of the treachery of monopoly- on the tail end of two other great lakes tragedies including the … Continue reading
Wake Up And Smell The Dirty Air!
I’ve had a persistent respiratory something or other for a solid two and a half weeks now. I’m a healthy adult with no history of respiratory problems, and yet– this persistent, relatively unproductive cough. I can’t help but wonder if … Continue reading
Posted in Urban Planning
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A Mayor Should Create Value, Not Refinance The Lack Of It
Mike Duggan’s latest proposal to “eliminate blight” includes a proposed $250 million bond issue to finance his ongoing demolition program, which has run out of HUD Hardest-Hit funds. At issue is not the feasibility of the issue itself, but whether … Continue reading
New Mobility Needs Old Mobility, Too!
I admit that I often approach discussions of “new mobility” with trepidation. Many mobility-themed events in Detroit are launched with much fanfare but end up just talking about, duly-hashtagged, #design and #autonomous. For the most part, autonomous vehicles are, as … Continue reading
Posted in Transit infrastructure, Urban Planning
Tagged AAA, bikeshare, Bird, Detroit, lime, limebike, lisa nuszkowski, lyft, MoGo, net impact, ni19, nico probst, prashanth gururaja, public transit, scooters, shared use mobility center, Spin, TNC, transit, transportation, Transportation Network Companies, Uber, USDoT
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Gilbert’s Bedrock Is Beginning To Think Outside The Automobile
I attended an event last night hosted by Transportation Riders United in One Woodward. The second floor conference room has some great views of the city at sunset, thanks to Michigan legend Minoru Yamasaki‘s affinity for floor-to-ceiling windows. (Oh, I … Continue reading
Posted in Public transit, Transit infrastructure, Urban Planning
Tagged autonomous vehicles, bedrock, bedrock detroit, dan gilbert, Detroit, kevin bopp, minoru yamasaki, mobility, motor city freedom riders, new mobility, prasanth gururaja, Quicken Loans, royal transportation, shared use mobility center, transportation riders united, TRU
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Saturday Night Parking Fever
En route to the Green Task Force meeting at Walker-Miller Energy Services in New Center, I stopped at 550 W. Fort St., site of a protest against the proposed demolition of the vacant, Detroit Saturday Night building at that address. … Continue reading
Posted in Historic preservation, Parking, Urban Planning
Tagged coleman young, demolition, Detroit, detroit saturday night building, detroiters for parking reform, emmett moten, fort street, francis grunow, green task force, ilitch, michigan, Mike Ilitch, olympia development, parking, surface parking
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