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Urban Planning Transit infrastructure

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.

Business & Economics Transit infrastructure Infrastructure

Black Ocean Strategy? Private Firms Are Looking To Cut Themselves A Slice Of The Infrastructure Pie.

March 25, 2021March 25, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments ann arbor, anthony townsend, austerity, autonomous cars, BRT, CASE, cavnue, chicago parking meter deal, chicago parking meters, daley the lesser, diane cross, EVs, fast bus, finance 101, ford mustang mach-e, free market, google, highways, hudson yards, infrastructure, Infrastructure Partners, invisible hand, jeff cranson, LRT, mach-e, mark de la vergne, mdot, michael heller, morgan stanley infrastructure partners, MSIP, mustang mach-e, PAV, privatization, privatization of transportation infrastructure, privatized, richard j. daley, richard m. daley, roadways, Sidewalk, sidewalk labs, SMART, smart city, smart roadways, subways, transportation infrastructure

Wall Street and Silicon Valley are looking for access to infrastructure as they seek out new markets and sources of reliable revenue streams and growth potential. It’s good work … if you can get it.

Urban Planning Public transit Transit infrastructure

RTA: Intercity Bus Service between Detroit and Ann Arbor, Coming To A Southeast Michigan Near You

January 9, 2020January 13, 2020 Nat Zorach 0 Comments ann arbor, BRT, Detroit, intercity bus, LRT, michigan connector, michigan flyer, public transit, public-private partnership, RTA, SMART, southeast michigan, southeast michigan area rapid transit

Often discussed in conversations about regional transit expansion in Southeast Michigan is the idea of a high-speed rail connection between

Public transit Travel

Bridging The Transit Gulf: APTA Conference in Tampa

December 20, 2019December 20, 2019 Nat Zorach 0 Comments APTA, BRT, climate change, conference, ferry, florida, growth management, HART, LRT, public transit, Sprawl, st. petersburg, suburbs, tampa, tampa bay, taxes, transit, transit infrastructure, transit initatives, transportation, travel, urban growth boundary

I just wrapped up a few days in Tampa for APTA’s Transit Initiatives workshop. The mini-conference, produced by the DC-based

Ontario Public transit

Ford: Can’t Fund LRT, Can’t Close Budget Deficits

December 17, 2019December 17, 2019 Nat Zorach 0 Comments andrea horwath, austerity, doug ford, hamilton, kathleen wynne, LRT, ontario, public transit, rail, transit

Ontario Premier Doug Ford has had mixed results riding the Donald Trump pseudo-populist wave that has been sweeping the globe.