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Our Top Ten Scariest Things In Urbanism This Halloween

October 31, 2022October 31, 2022 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments accessibility, amy coney barrett, angie schmitt, brett kavanaugh, clarence thomas, climate change, dave staudt, department of transportation, dot, emergency management, epa, epa ruling on carbon dioxide, fossil fuel crunch, fossil fuels, Gretchen Whitmer, halloween, halloween party, itaetwon, itaetwon tragedy, jeff bezos, matt maddock, media platforms, meshawn maddock, michigan proposal 3, neil gorsuch, noah balanda, oakland county gop, pedestrian fatalities, pedestrian safety, safe streets, safety, seoul, shane trejo, smart millage, supreme court, twitter, white supremacists

Halloween is a spooky time of year. Know what else is spooky? Well, we have a list of ten things– which we meticulously compiled while wearing our costumes in the war room of Handbuilt Heavy Industries, Ltd.

Business & Economics Mobility Energy

GM Vision Zero: Joe Biden and Mary Barra, Fiddling While The World Burns

November 18, 2021November 18, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments bbb, building back better, cafe standards, car culture, congestion, electric car, electric hummer, electric vehicle tax credit, ev tax credit, ford f150 electric, ford f150 lightning, ford mach-e, ford mustang mach-e, GM hummer EV, hamtramck, hummer ev, joe biden, mary barra, mdot, mustang mach-e, pedestrian fatalities, pedestrian safety, poletown, rivian, suv, suvs, Tesla, triple zero bottom line, vision zero, vmt, vmt reduction, who killed the electric car

As 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.

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Mobility Public Safety

“We’ve Got A Delegation, Bro”: Exemptions to DC Law, If You’ve Got The Money

November 12, 2021November 12, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments cadillac, Cadillac Escalade, cager, cagers, car culture, cars, cycling, cycling infrastructure, cycling safety, dc pedestrian fatalities, dc vision zero, driver, drivers, escalade, four seasons hotel dc, four seasons total landscaping, general motors, georgetown, georgetown dc, pedestrian safety, safe streets, sidewalks, suv, suvs, vision zero, vision zero dc, walkability, walking

Car culture sucks. Even in the nation’s capital, where the city doesn’t seem able to prevent cars from parking all over sidewalks, at bus stops, and its drivers from telling you that they’re allowed to, because.

Public Safety Infrastructure Small Business Streetscaping

New Grand River Streetscaping: Safer, Slower, Greener

May 4, 2021May 4, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments bike lanes, black-owned business, crosswalk, crosswalks, Detroit, effect of streetscaping on public safety, garden stores, gardening, gardening store, gilmour garden tools, grand army of the republic building detroit, grand river, grand river avenue, grandmont-rosedale, highland park, home depot, local business, maumee lake region, native plants, neighborhood investment, north rosedale park, pages bookshop, pedestrian safety, public safety, raised crosswalks, street safety, streetscaping and public safety, tina castleberry, traffic violence

New streetscaping improvements have turned portions of Grand River Avenue, on Detroit’s West Side, from a street-level freeway into something more closely resembling a real city street that people might be able to safely hang out and shop on.

Public Safety Transit infrastructure

Morning Coffee, Detroit Traffic: The Post-COVID Craze Is About To Be Wild

May 3, 2021May 3, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments ambassador bridge, bicycle safety, bike safety, car culture, cars, cycling infrastructure, cycling safety, Detroit, detroit police, detroit river, detroit traffic, dodge challenger, dodge charger, dodge durango, driving, gratiot, hi-riser, infrastructure, jeep, Mikki Taylor-Hendrix, nonmotorized infrastructure, pedestrian safety, riverfront park, traffic violence, west riverfront park, why do people always rev their dodge charger

Yesterday, Detroit was a whole traffic jam, as an increasingly vaccinated cross-section of, well, everyone, emerged from the cocoons of Michigan winter and lockdowns.

Urban Planning Mobility Infrastructure Tech

Webinar: Tech To Reduce Guesswork for Safer Streets

April 26, 2021April 26, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments amazon, amazon web service, Amazon Web Services, AWS, big tech, break up big tech, breaking up big tech, CASE, cloud computing, congestion, connected, connected autonomous, connected autonomous shared electric, cycling safety, Detroit, distributed structures, elizabeth warren, intelligent transportation systems, intersections, ITS, jeff bezos, jeff bezos rocket ship, joe biden, mobility, pedestrian safety, public safety, redundancy, roadside unit, rsu, safe streets, sensors, smart transportation, switching costs, tony geara, traffic, traffic management, traffic safety

Traffic technology has improved by leaps and bounds in recent decades. While the ultimate solutions to ending traffic violence must come with better street designs and a reduced reliance on single-occupant automobiles, there are some interesting developments in technology that are allowing better modeling to understand driver behavior, intersection safety, and more. We learned about it from a webinar co-hosted by Canadian tech company Miovision.

Policy Public Safety

Police Reform: Imagining New Roles For A Safer, More Functional Society

April 23, 2021April 23, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments 1312, abolish the police, acab, angie schmitt, austerity, black lives matter, BSEED, budgets, building department, building inspections, building inspector, building officials, community engagement, community meetings, cycling, cycling safety, dave bell, defund the police, democracy, Detroit, detroit police chief james craig, detroit police department, detroit will breathe, fuck the police, james craig, jessica parker, legal aid, municipal budgets, municipal government, nonmotorized transportation, pedestrian fatalities, pedestrian safety, police, police abolition, police brutality, police brutality lawsuits, police departments, police reform, policing in the united states, prison abolition, prison reform, public funding, reform the police, safe mobility, safe streets, social justice, social safety net, social welfare, social work, social worker, social workers, traffic safety, traffic violence

We expect police to respond to, well, everything. And they’re not suited for it. Rethinking policing in the United States will require us to figure out alternatives for who is responding to what issue.

Mobility Public Health Public Safety Cities & Urban Planning Cycling

Right of Way: Race, Class, and the Silent Epidemic of Pedestrian Deaths in America

January 25, 2021January 25, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments accessibility, automobile fatalities, automotive infrastructure, autonomous vehicle, autonomous vehicles, car fatalities, car infrastructure, cars, class, cycling, cycling safety, cyclist, cyclists, death, driving, elaine herzberg, elaine herzberg death, elaine herzberg uber, environmental racism, mobility, pedestrian, pedestrian deaths, pedestrian safety, pedestrianization, pedestrians, pedestrians killed, public health, public safety, race, safe mobility, safe streets, self-driving car, single-occupant vehicles, street design, streetscaping, walkability

Angie Schmitt’s Right of Way: Race, Class, and the Silent Epidemic of Pedestrian Deaths in America (2020) is a must-read

Urban Planning Finance Public transit

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