Transit infrastructure

Mobility Transit infrastructure Urban Planning 

Transportation Bonanza 11: The Rural, The Urban, And The MDOT

February 17, 2020February 20, 2020 Nat Zorach 0 Comments conferences, field trips, green stormwater infrastructure, lansing, mdot, michigan, mobility, planning, stormwater, transit, transportation, transportation engineering, transportation planning, Urban planning

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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Michigan Transit infrastructure 

It’s Not Infrastructure If It’s Just Roads

February 14, 2020February 14, 2020 Nat Zorach 0 Comments brian calley, Bridge Magazine, gas tax, Gretchen Whitmer, HOV lanes, infrastructure, lee chatfield, matt maddock, michigan, mike shirkey, NUMTOT, public finance, road funding, roads, Sprawl, tolls, transit, transit infrastructure, UN Agenda 21 Globalist Conspiracy, user fees, VMT tax

I spoke with Brian Calley on proposals to fix the damn roads– and to understand whether Republicans might consider transit a good complement.

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Public transit Transit infrastructure Urban Planning 

Lessons from Tampa: How Transit Funding Works

February 12, 2020February 10, 2020 Nat Zorach 0 Comments capital expenditures, gas tax, local option sales tax, millage, property tax, sales tax, transit, transit funding

Transit funding is a messy topic. This article is a brief primer exploring benefits and drawbacks of various sources.

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Michigan Public transit Transit infrastructure 

RTA Bus vs. a Train Between Ann Arbor and Detroit? (Part 2)

February 11, 2020February 11, 2020 Nat Zorach 0 Comments amtrak, ann arbor, canadian national, canadian pacific, class i railroads, conrail, DDOT, Detroit, farebox recovery ratio, hiawatha, I-75, m-10, marc magliari, mike hicks, milwaukee, rail, RTA, southeast michigan, university of michigan

One of my readers observed that she was a bit bummed out by the “yeah, but it simply can’t work

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Public transit Transit infrastructure Urban Planning 

RTA: Intercity Bus Service between Detroit and Ann Arbor, Coming To A Southeast Michigan Near You

January 9, 2020January 13, 2020 Nat Zorach 1 Comment ann arbor, BRT, Detroit, intercity bus, LRT, michigan connector, michigan flyer, public transit, public-private partnership, RTA, SMART, southeast michigan, southeast michigan area rapid transit

Often discussed in conversations about regional transit expansion in Southeast Michigan is the idea of a high-speed rail connection between

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Public transit Transit infrastructure Urban Planning 

State Lawmaker Asks, “Why Can’t People Just Take Uber Instead?” Let’s Explain Why.

December 20, 2019December 20, 2019 Nat Zorach 0 Comments congestion, GOP, highway widening, I-75, I-94, induced demand, lyft, matt maddock, michigan legislature, public transit, regional transit authority, republican party, rideshare, RTA, TNC, transit spending, Uber

There are a few names that often get thrown around in Southeast Michigan when one discusses the fight for infrastructure.

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Public transit Transit infrastructure Urban Planning 

The New Mobility Requires A New Workforce

December 9, 2019December 9, 2019 Nat Zorach 0 Comments 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

This morning I attended “Driving Our AV Future,” an event produced by the Michigan Mobility Institute (MMI) and the Partnership for

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Business & Economics Public transit Transit infrastructure Urban Planning 

All Aboard, RTA 2020: The Business Case For Transit

December 5, 2019December 5, 2019 Nat Zorach 0 Comments 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

I’m moving into the end of the year with an announcement about some exciting upcoming goings-on. RTA 2020: The Business

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Transit infrastructure Urban Planning 

Happy Birthday, Ambassador Bridge!

November 11, 2019November 11, 2019 Nat Zorach 0 Comments ambassador bridge, border crossing, Detroit, detroit international bridge company, detroit river, gordie howe bridge, international trade, matassa, matty moroun, windsor

The Ambassador Bridge, or, Moroun’s Folly, as I call her, is 90 years young today. We commemorate this iconic landmark–

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Transit infrastructure Urban Planning 

New Mobility Needs Old Mobility, Too!

October 30, 2019November 5, 2019 Nat Zorach 0 Comments 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

I admit that I often approach discussions of “new mobility” with trepidation. Many mobility-themed events in Detroit are launched with

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