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cycling safety michigan state university

I attended a meeting of this volunteer committee on MSU’s campus that convenes monthly to talk about alternative transportation. Safety

Cycling Law

May 26, 2024 Nat M. Zorach

Detroit Doesn’t Explicitly Prohibit Parking In Bike Lanes. That’s Weird.

Laws and ordinances are important methods of signaling cultural values embodied by the State. In Michigan’s case, a relatively weak enforcement mechanism around bike lane protections and poor municipal ordinances on the subject seem suspect.

Cycling Public Safety

September 7, 2023 Nat M. Zorach

Drivers: Please Don’t Honk At Cyclists. Ever.

Car horns are dangerously loud, and dangerously loud sounds are not only deleterious to health, they’re also scary for cyclists– who are already occupying a precarious position on the streets of American cities.

Mobility Public Safety

November 12, 2021 Nat M. Zorach

“We’ve Got A Delegation, Bro”: Exemptions to DC Law, If You’ve Got The Money

Car culture sucks. Even in the nation’s capital, where the city doesn’t seem able to prevent cars from parking all over sidewalks, at bus stops, and its drivers from telling you that they’re allowed to, because.

Business & Economics Consumer Products Mobility

August 25, 2021 Nat M. Zorach

Libert-e-bikes: Marketing Mobility As Freedom

Michael Robertson, who founded a peer platform of the ill-fated Napster in 1997, once referred to cars as “liberty machines.” It’s a dominant belief among many car owners. Are eBike companies challenging that assumption in their marketing material?

Policy Public Safety

April 23, 2021 Nat M. Zorach

Police Reform: Imagining New Roles For A Safer, More Functional Society

We expect police to respond to, well, everything. And they’re not suited for it. Rethinking policing in the United States will require us to figure out alternatives for who is responding to what issue.

Cities & Urban Planning Cycling Mobility Public Health Public Safety

January 25, 2021 Nat M. Zorach