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Tag Archives: Detroit
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
Detroit Park City No. 5 – Crossing The Post Office Desert of West Fort Street
One of the interesting things about Detroit’s built environment is the hub-and-spoke street layout. There are multiple, conflicting street grids, some working off true north and some following the curvature of the river. This is a product of a city … Continue reading
Lansing Field Trip: Michigan Public Service Commission
Today marked my quarterly pilgrimage to the great center of Mitten-power, that is, Lansing, Michigan. I go up every few months for the Energy Waste Reduction work group meeting. The EWR committee is convened by the Michigan Public Service Commission … Continue reading
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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Net Impact 19!
Thursday, Friday, and Saturday I had the opportunity to attend Net Impact 19 at the TCF Center. I sort of stumbled into the conference at the last minute having no idea was I was getting into, which is always convenient … Continue reading
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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Saturday Night Parking Fever
En route to the Green Task Force meeting at Walker-Miller Energy Services in New Center, I stopped at 550 W. Fort St., site of a protest against the proposed demolition of the vacant, Detroit Saturday Night building at that address. … Continue reading
Posted in Historic preservation, Parking, Urban Planning
Tagged coleman young, demolition, Detroit, detroit saturday night building, detroiters for parking reform, emmett moten, fort street, francis grunow, green task force, ilitch, michigan, Mike Ilitch, olympia development, parking, surface parking
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Greening Sprawl and The Limits of Incrementalism
Often, when I get excited about a discussion about sustainable urbanism or green building, the projects in question turn out to be, well, lackluster. I joke that New Urbanism is about designing sprawling strip malls where the parking lots are … Continue reading
Posted in Density, Sprawl, Urban Planning
Tagged arkansas, CNU, Density, Detroit, greenfield, LEED, municipal revenue, New Urbanism, Oklahoma, rick fedrizzi, Sprawl, straw ban, strip malls, suburbia, suburbs, townships, Urban planning
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