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Oakland County Approves Universal SMART Millage For Fall Ballot

August 15, 2022August 16, 2022 Guest 0 Comments advocacy, auburn hills, brooks patterson, calley wang, dave coulter, DDOT, detroit department of transportation, DTE, GM, kevin mcdaniel, l brooks patterson, livonia, megan owens, metro detroit, michael gingell, mikal goodman, mobility, mobility organizing, motor city freedom riders, opt-out, people mover, quicken, rochester hills, RTA, RTA opt-out, RTA opt-out communities, SMART, suburbia, suburbs, transit, transit justice, transportation riders united, troy michigan, trumplandia, walking man, why is transit in detroit so bad

It’s official: Oakland County will have an opportunity to vote on transit investment in the fall! Such was the determination

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Mike Duggan’s Legacy of Austerity, Corporate Power, and State Violence

November 1, 2021November 2, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments albert cobo, arthur jemison, black lives matter, black lives matter protest, black lives matter protests, BSEED, coleman young, DDOT, dennis archer, Detroit, detroit 2021 election, detroit department of transportation, detroit mayor mike duggan, detroit politics, detroit proposal r, detroit proposal s, detroit towing scandal, gaspar fiore, housing and revitalization department, james craig, jed howbert, jerome kavanagh, kwame kilpatrick, mayoral election detroit, mike duggan, mikel oglesby, politics, related, related companies, ryan friedrichs, stephen ross, tear gas

Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan is inevitably coasting to an easy reëlection tomorrow. His legacy is a complex and a fraught one– that deserves a lot of critical scrutiny, in spite of the big moves that the city has made in the past decade.

the sears tower looms beyond the brutalist campus of the university of illinois chicago, where the summer institute on sustainability and energy (SISE) takes place.

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Best Nerds Podcast No. 2: Innovation and Equity in Transportation

July 14, 2021July 14, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments argonne national lab, best nerds, best nerds on earth, best nerds podcast, bike lanes, bike lanes and gentrification, bike lanes are white lanes, city planning, DDOT, detroit department of transportation, economic justice, equity, ian edward munroe, ian munroe, JCESR, kelsey zlevor, kunal sahasrabuddhe, lisa nuszkowski, Mikki Taylor-Hendrix, mobility, MoGo, mogo detroit, Nat Zorach, public transit, racial justice, summer institute on sustainability and energy, thomas alaan, transit, transit justice, transit organizing, transportation, transportation justice, university of illinois chicago, university of new orleans, Urban planning, wsp

Our second podcast is finally out. I take responsibility for the delay. There were some technical issues I ran into,

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Dreams of Better Transit Signage. How Legible Is Your City?

June 23, 2021June 23, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments advocacy, bus, bus routes, buses, calley wang, camillo sitte, citycraft, dan gilbert, dan gilbert industrial complex, DDOT, detroit department of transportation, jane jacobs, legibility, LRT, martha connell, motor city freedom riders, QLINE, richard sennett, ridership, robert moses, statecraft, transit, transit corridors, transit infrastructure, transit signage, transportation riders united, TRU, urban design, Urban planning

Transit advocacy should necessarily focus on making sure transit systems can be easily accessed. In many cases, that begins with signs to show people where to go.

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