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Recharging the Aquifer Underneath Detroit’s Transit Desert

January 5, 2022January 5, 2022 Martha Connell 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

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

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.

Events

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

June 17, 2021June 17, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 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

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 Urban Planning Transit infrastructure

Detroit Fairgrounds Site: Alternatives to Permanent, Monumentally Bad Decisions

October 6, 2020October 5, 2020 Nat M. Zorach 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

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 Urban Planning Parking

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

January 23, 2020February 10, 2020 Nat Zorach 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

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.

Urban Planning Public transit Transit infrastructure Parking

The Somewhat Unsurprising Struggle of Detroit’s Streetcar

May 3, 2019May 3, 2019 Nat Zorach 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

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