infrastructure

Climate Policy Transit infrastructure 

Climate Leadership Conference: Decarbonizing Transportation, One Electric SUV At A Time?

March 10, 2020March 11, 2020 Nat Zorach 0 Comments autonomous vehicles, climate leadership conference, connected vehicles, decarbonization, electric vehicles, electrical generation, Ford, GM, infrastructure, market transformation, mobility, single-occupant vehicles, transit, transit infrastructure

One recurring theme at last week’s Climate Leadership Conference was the topic of decarbonizing the transportation sector. Transportation accounts for

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Michigan Transit infrastructure 

It’s Not Infrastructure If It’s Just Roads

February 14, 2020February 14, 2020 Nat Zorach 0 Comments brian calley, Bridge Magazine, gas tax, Gretchen Whitmer, HOV lanes, infrastructure, lee chatfield, matt maddock, michigan, mike shirkey, NUMTOT, public finance, road funding, roads, Sprawl, tolls, transit, transit infrastructure, UN Agenda 21 Globalist Conspiracy, user fees, VMT tax

I spoke with Brian Calley on proposals to fix the damn roads– and to understand whether Republicans might consider transit a good complement.

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Urban Planning 

Alleys: The Back Road To Sustainable Development

January 13, 2020February 10, 2020 Nat Zorach 0 Comments Accessory dwelling unit, ADU, affordable housing, alleys, Cadillac Escalade, combined sewer overflow, CUBA, currently unsubsidized but affordable, Density, Ford F150, garages, green stormwater infrastructure, GSI, infrastructure, naturally occurring affordable housing, NOAH, residential construction, southwest detroit, stormwater infrastructure, stormwater management, stormwater retention

Alleys, an oft-forgotten component of the urban fabric, have transformative potential for infrastructure and real estate.

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Urban Planning 

A Literal Train Wreck Makes A Case For Resilient Infrastructure

December 13, 2019December 13, 2019 Nat Zorach 0 Comments climate adaptation, climate change, climate resilience, infrastructure, investor-owned utilities, rail, resilience, utility infrastructure

A train derailment yesterday morning in Southwest Detroit knocked down a power line, leaving about a thousand residential and commercial

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Business & Economics 

Mood: “It’s The Austerity, Stupid!” or, “Are We Ever Gonna Straight Up Call Out The Failings Of Neoliberal Economic Policy?”

November 14, 2019November 15, 2019 Nat Zorach 0 Comments american enterprise institute, austerity, bowling alone, dan gilbert, discourse, infrastructure, jonathan rauch, public infrastructure, reaganomics, republican party, robert putnam, ryan streeter, social capital, transit, trickle-down economics

Loneliness. Failures of civic engagement. A lacking sense of place. These are things that are often not discussed together. They’re

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Finance Public transit Urban Planning 

Bad Ideas And Bad Companies Do Not Need Your Defense

August 23, 2019August 23, 2019 Nat Zorach 0 Comments aaata, aecom, auto bailout, auto industry, autonomous vehicles, AVs, big three, chrysler, corporate debt, cruise automation, electric vehicles, electrification, finance, Ford, general motors, hntb, infrastructure, lyft, pedestrian safety, stock market, Tesla, trucks

I was out for happy hour the other night with a transportation group. In spite of its legendarily bad public

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Cycling Public transit Transit infrastructure Urban Planning 

Whomst Should Bear The Cost? Mobility and the Workplace

October 8, 2018 admin 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

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