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Martha Connell January 5, 2022January 5, 2022 0 Comments DDOT, ddot cuts, ddot detroit, ddot driver shortage, ddot funding, ddot routes, Detroit, duggan, duggan administration, economic development, labor, metro detroit, michigan, QLINE, regional transit authority, regioonal transit authority, RTA, rta michigan, rta millage, SMART, transit, transit service, wages

Recharging the Aquifer Underneath Detroit’s Transit Desert

Martha Connell looks at some hard questions about the future of Detroit’s transit.

Transit infrastructure Urban Planning

Nat M. Zorach June 23, 2021June 23, 2021 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

Dreams of Better Transit Signage. How Legible Is Your City?

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.

Nat M. Zorach June 17, 2021June 17, 2021 0 Comments beaubien, belle isle, belle isle grand prix, brooks patterson, bud denker, cars, chevrolet, collision course, dave gifford, daytona prototype international, department of natural resources, detroit tigers, DPI, economic development, fast cars, find new roads, grand prix, huski, huski chocolate, indy 500, indy cars, indycar, jay leno, leigh diffey, little caesars, mdot, michigan department of transportation, nascar, particulate emissions, pat morita, people mover, QLINE, race cars, racing, racism, really fast cars, renaissance center, roger penske, suburban racism, sweden, tragedy of the commons, vroom, vroom vroom, vroomvroom

Detroit, The World’s Racetrack: My First Time At The Belle Isle Grand Prix

At the Grand Prix, presented by [Car Company] on Belle Isle, we enjoyed pulled pork nachos, sunshine, and a haze of particulate emissions.

Business & Economics Historic preservation Transit infrastructure Urban Planning

Nat M. Zorach October 6, 2020October 5, 2020 0 Comments 8 mile, adaptive reuse, brooks patterson, brownfield, dave coulter, DDOT, Density, Detroit, duggan, economic development, eight mile, francis grunow, historic preservation, mike duggan, preservation, QLINE, redevelopment, RTA, SMART, state fairgrounds, state fairgrounds site, transit, transit infrastructure, woodward, woodward avenue

Detroit Fairgrounds Site: Alternatives to Permanent, Monumentally Bad Decisions

The State Fairgrounds site is centrally located, and it’s huge. Too huge to make some monumentally bad decisions about permanently turning it into a Shelby Township-style strip mall.

Business & Economics Parking Urban Planning

Nat Zorach January 23, 2020February 10, 2020 0 Comments baumann consulting, comerica park, detroit red wings, detroit tigers, ecoachievers, economic development, Ilitches, LEED, Little Caesars Arena, Mike Ilitch, olympia development, olympia stadium, palace of auburn hills, QLINE, silverdom, usgbc, woodward avenue

The Billion Dollar Hot-And-Ready: Touring Detroit’s Little Caesars Arena

Detroit’s Little Caesars Arena is impressive. Whether it’s a masterpiece of sustainability of community development, on the other hand, is up for debate.

Parking Public transit Transit infrastructure Urban Planning

Nat Zorach May 3, 2019May 3, 2019 0 Comments dan gilbert, DDOT, Gretchen Whitmer, Ilitches, Little Caesars Arena, M1 Rail, Midtown Detroit, Mike Ilitch, public transit, QLINE, Quicken Loans, RTA, SMART, Streetcars, transit

The Somewhat Unsurprising Struggle of Detroit’s Streetcar

Figures out this week show that Detroit’s QLINE streetcar, once heralded as a bringer of progress to our struggling city,

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