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Category Archives: Transit infrastructure
RTA: Intercity Bus Service between Detroit and Ann Arbor, Coming To A Southeast Michigan Near You
Often discussed in conversations about regional transit expansion in Southeast Michigan is the idea of a high-speed rail connection between Ann Arbor and Detroit. At face value, it seems like a slam dunk: Ann Arbor has over 120,000 residents and … Continue reading
State Lawmaker Asks, “Why Can’t People Just Take Uber Instead?” Let’s Explain Why.
There are a few names that often get thrown around in Southeast Michigan when one discusses the fight for infrastructure. The late Oakland County Executive L. Brooks Patterson, for example, was a staunch opponent of transit expansion. Many longtime observers … Continue reading
The New Mobility Requires A New Workforce
This morning I attended “Driving Our AV Future,” an event produced by the Michigan Mobility Institute (MMI) and the Partnership for Transportation Innovation and Opportunity (PTIO). The event took place at the Industry Innovation Center (formerly just NextEnergy) across from TechTown. … Continue reading
Posted in Public transit, Transit infrastructure, Urban Planning
Tagged amazon, amazon bid, amazon hq2, autonomous vehicles, bay area, cass corridor, economic development, Ford, garlin gilchrist, Gretchen Whitmer, jeff bezos, Midtown Detroit, mobility, nissan, smart city, sustainable mobility, talent attraction, talent retention, techtown, transit, transportation, wayne state university
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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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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
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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Canada Trip I – Via Rail to Toronto
I’m in Montreal and Toronto this week for a program through Kogod. The topic is marketing in a cross-cultural setting, and it’s been the first class whose content I’ve actually really enjoyed. One article– definitely the most conceptually interesting I’ve … Continue reading
Autonomous Vehicles And The City Of To-Morrow
No, it’s not a Potemkin Village in which erstwhile Governor Rick Snyder staged his great Austerity March for propaganda films. It’s the MCity Test Facility at the University of Michigan’s North Campus in Ann Arbor. The site, designed to test … Continue reading
Posted in Transit infrastructure, Urban Planning
Tagged autonomous vehicles, AVs, Cruise, cruise automation, dedicated short range communications, DSCR, Ford, general motors, intelligent transportation systems, mobility, public transit, sustainable mobility, Tesla, transit, transportation, urban mobility, Waymo
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On The Banks of the Mighty Maumee
In anticipation of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s imminent assumption of her role as supreme socialist ruler of the cosmos, in which she orders the immediate seizure of all public and private assets and the destruction of all commercial aircraft, I decided to … Continue reading
Posted in Climate adaptation, Climate Resilience, Environment, Stormwater, Transit infrastructure, Urban Planning
Tagged amtrak, economic development, gary, green stormwater infrastructure, GSI, habitat loss, habitat restoration, johnstown, manifest destiny, maumee river, native landscaping, ohio, parks, prairie grasses, public space, rail infrastructure, stormwater management, tallgrass prairie, toledo, trains, youngstown
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