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Infrastructure: Think Outside The Smartphone-Driven Profit Motive

July 1, 2022July 1, 2022 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments autonomous vehicles, CASE, chip shortage, connected autonomous shared electric, effects of covid on transit, effects of covid19 on transit, Electric cars, elon musk, farebox recovery ratio, Ford, ford f-150, Ford F150, ford motor company, FRR, future of mobility, general motors, GM, mary barra, MEDC, midwest, new mobility, semiconductor shortage, smart cities, smart city, smartcities, smartcitiesworld, Tesla, transit, trevor pawl, triple zero, zero emissions vehicles

One of Michigan’s most visible mobility spokespeople recently said in a webinar that smartphone ownership and profitable markets were the two hindrances to developing sustainable mobility solutions in the state. It’s a politically horrific, functionally dubious, but baffling thing to say.

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Into Exurban Oblivion: Auburn Hills Mulls Ditching Transit Service

February 21, 2022February 21, 2022 Guest 0 Comments auburn hills, bus, bus ridership, buses, calley wang, chrysler, DaimlerChrysler, DDOT, Detroit, divergent diamond, diverging diamond, editorial, farebox recovery ratio, fca, FCAU, fiat chrysler, Flint MTA, Ford, general motors, great lakes crossing, how is transit funded, mdot, michigan department of road engineering, michigan department of transportation, Nat Zorach, nimbyism, public transit, retrofitting the suburbs, ridership, RTA, rta michigan, SMART, stellantis, suburban transit, the handbuilt city, transit, transit funding, transit millage, transportation, Urban planning

In one of the farthest-north suburbs of Detroit, a municipality’s elected representatives are discussing the possibility of eliminating fixed-route transit, which has the support of an overwhelming percentage of the electorate, to save around $800,000 per year. In this guest co-editorial, Calley Wang and Nat Zorach argue that this is a really, really terrible idea.

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Cato Needs To Re-Toole Their Bad Takes On Infrastructure

February 17, 2021February 17, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments alstom, amtrak, amtrak capex, Amtrak NEC, bad ideas, batman, batman meme, capital expenditures, cato institute, farebox recovery ratio, federal spending, freight, FRR, government bad, government spending, gridlock, high-speed rail, inflation, intermodal, intermodal transit, libertarian, libertarianism, manufacturing, milkshakes, moore's law, multimodal, northeast corridor, northeast corridor tunnel, public transit, randal o'toole, randall o'toole, real clear policy, small government, train, trains, transit

The Cato Institute’s Randal O’Toole has a really terrible take on transportation investment that grossly misrepresents how money and economic efficiency work.

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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