Washington, DC’s Big Car Tax Is A Novel, Necessary Approach To Traffic Fatalities.
Pedestrian and cyclist safety has a new potential ally in the form of an annual registration tax for huge, heavy cars.
Read morePedestrian and cyclist safety has a new potential ally in the form of an annual registration tax for huge, heavy cars.
Read moreIn 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.
Read moreEvery year, we at Handbuilt Heavy Industries, Incorporated, feel the need to wrap up with a Christmas-y list of everyone who
Read moreAs British Columbia excavates houses, roads, and, tragically, bodies, from the aftermath of catastrophic flooding, the President was in Detroit yesterday to tout the virtues of a 9,000-lb. electric car that, liberals apparently believe, will solve climate change.
Read moreNat is attending the Michigan Association of Planning’s annual conference. It’s going great– especially with regard to figuring out new ways to refashion state agencies that aren’t doing their jobs.
Read moreRepresentatives of Michigan’s Department of Transportation have, at two recent public meetings, firmly pushed back on the proposal that the agency must tie a reduction in vehicle miles traveled (VMT) to funding considerations for new projects– using a dubious rationale.
Read moreIn the aftermath of a catastrophic flooding event a few weeks ago, Detroiters cleaned out their basements of water-damaged and
Read moreAt the Grand Prix, presented by [Car Company] on Belle Isle, we enjoyed pulled pork nachos, sunshine, and a haze of particulate emissions.
Read moreNot quite the Grand Prix yet and we’re already having issues. Can we protect Belle Isle from being clogged by car traffic?
Read moreThe census numbers are in, and we’re unsurprised to learn that population growth is stagnant in parts of the great,
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