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Business & Economics Mobility Energy

GM Vision Zero: Joe Biden and Mary Barra, Fiddling While The World Burns

November 18, 2021November 18, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments bbb, building back better, cafe standards, car culture, congestion, electric car, electric hummer, electric vehicle tax credit, ev tax credit, ford f150 electric, ford f150 lightning, ford mach-e, ford mustang mach-e, GM hummer EV, hamtramck, hummer ev, joe biden, mary barra, mdot, mustang mach-e, pedestrian fatalities, pedestrian safety, poletown, rivian, suv, suvs, Tesla, triple zero bottom line, vision zero, vmt, vmt reduction, who killed the electric car

As British Columbia excavates houses, roads, and, tragically, bodies, from the aftermath of catastrophic flooding, the President was in Detroit yesterday to tout the virtues of a 9,000-lb. electric car that, liberals apparently believe, will solve climate change.

Policy Mobility Sustainability Transit infrastructure Government

MDOT: “Making VMT Reduction A Mobility Goal Is Punitive, Combative, And Might Hurt People’s Feelings”

August 27, 2021August 27, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments AASHTO, aashto green book, brad sharlow, carbon footprint, climate change, congestion, department of transportation, green book, highway design standards, infrastructure, judd herzer, level-of-service, LoS, mdot, MEDC, michigan, michigan department of transportation, Michigan DOT, michigan economic development corporation, mobility, niles annelin, public transit, state law, state policy, toll roads, traffic, transit, transportation, transportation engineering, transportation planning, trevor pawl, vehicle hours traveled, vehicle miles traveled, VHT, vmt, vmt reduction

Representatives of Michigan’s Department of Transportation have, at two recent public meetings, firmly pushed back on the proposal that the agency must tie a reduction in vehicle miles traveled (VMT) to funding considerations for new projects– using a dubious rationale.

Public Safety Cities & Urban Planning Transit infrastructure

MSP: Seat Belt Use Drops To Lowest in 17 Years

July 20, 2021July 20, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments congestion, COVID traffic deaths, helmet laws, highway safety, highway safety planning, michigan, michigan OHSP, michigan state police, mitten, mittentimes, rates of traffic death, seat belt laws, seat belt usage, seat belts, seatbelt, seatbelts, traffic, traffic safety, traffic violence

The Michigan State Police released data from a study today that showed that fatalities are on the rise, while seatbelt usage is on the decline. We look at how this plays out across a few jurisdictions.

Urban Planning Mobility Infrastructure Tech

Webinar: Tech To Reduce Guesswork for Safer Streets

April 26, 2021April 26, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments amazon, amazon web service, Amazon Web Services, AWS, big tech, break up big tech, breaking up big tech, CASE, cloud computing, congestion, connected, connected autonomous, connected autonomous shared electric, cycling safety, Detroit, distributed structures, elizabeth warren, intelligent transportation systems, intersections, ITS, jeff bezos, jeff bezos rocket ship, joe biden, mobility, pedestrian safety, public safety, redundancy, roadside unit, rsu, safe streets, sensors, smart transportation, switching costs, tony geara, traffic, traffic management, traffic safety

Traffic technology has improved by leaps and bounds in recent decades. While the ultimate solutions to ending traffic violence must come with better street designs and a reduced reliance on single-occupant automobiles, there are some interesting developments in technology that are allowing better modeling to understand driver behavior, intersection safety, and more. We learned about it from a webinar co-hosted by Canadian tech company Miovision.

California Urban Planning Photography Travel

Los Angeles: Beyond The Supreme Reign of the Motorcar

March 16, 2020March 17, 2020 Nat Zorach 0 Comments bianca barragan, buses, congestion, congestion pricing, Curbed LA, echo park, electric vehicles, elijah chiland, LA Metro, lyft, Mike Davis, Streetcars, TOD, trains, transit-oriented development, Uber, YIMBY

The culture of mobility in Los Angeles is still stuck in the single-passenger automotive mindset. But the infrastructure begs to differ.

Art & Design Urban Planning Burgerbanism Profiles Travel

A Night Out in Jessica Cabot’s Los Angeles

March 2, 2020March 2, 2020 Nat Zorach 0 Comments congestion, fast food, hollywood, jessica cabot, los angeles, Sprawl, sunset boulevard, sunset strip, traffic, walk of fame

Nat tours Hollywood, the Hollywood Hills, Sunset Boulevard, and Griffith Observatory with a native Angeleno, and even manages to eat an obscene amount of chili cheese fries.

Urban Planning Public transit Transit infrastructure

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.

Business & Economics Urban Planning Canada Cycling

Canada Trip III – Leaving Montreal

September 18, 2019November 15, 2019 Nat Zorach 0 Comments anglophone, business, Canada, congestion, francophone, jeune chambre de commerce du quebec, marketing, mobility, montreal, multicultural marketing, publicis, quebec, quebecois, Toronto, urban growth, Urban planning, voxco

We leave Montreal today for Toronto, where we will begin the “extension” portion of our Canada program. Our Montreal trip

Urban Planning Public transit Transit infrastructure Cycling

Whomst Should Bear The Cost? Mobility and the Workplace

October 8, 2018 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments automobile infrastructure, bike commuting, bikes, buses, car insurance, cars, commuting, congestion, DDOT, Detroit, detroit department of transportation, ebikes, infrastructure, MoGo, multimodal, NUMTOTs, public transit, southeast michigan, traffic, transit-oriented teens

I figured I could kick off Detroit Mobility Week with some exploration of a debate currently simmering in my office