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Michigan Population Numbers: How Long Before We Just Admit That This Strategy Isn’t Working?

April 27, 2021April 27, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments 1837 border war, add lane miles, aging population, big two and a half, chaldeans, chrysler, Congress, congressional seats, fca, fiat chrysler, Ford, ford motor company, funding infrastructure, general motors, GM, Gretchen Whitmer, growth, infrastructure, infrastructure and economic growth, infrastructure investment, japan, level-of-service, matt maddock, mdot, meshawn maddock, michigan, michigan legislature, ohio, population decline, population growth, rail, rail infrastructure, refugees, rightsizing, rightsizing cities, rightsizing infrastructure, shrinking cities, stellantis, tokyo, toledo border war, transit, trucks, trump, US Congress, vmt, vmt reduction, whitmer

The census numbers are in, and we’re unsurprised to learn that population growth is stagnant in parts of the great,

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A Biden Presidency: Full Speed Ahead On Transit?

November 9, 2020November 8, 2020 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments amtrak, high-speed rail, infrastructure, infrastructure funding, mass transit, midwest high-speed rail, public transit, rail, rail infrastructure, trains, transit, transit infrastructure

Republicans have tried time and again to defund Amtrak, which receives about a tenth of one percent of the funding directed to car infrastructure every year. Will a new Democratic administration be able to (finally) push for modernizing our transit infrastructure?

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RTA Bus vs. a Train Between Ann Arbor and Detroit? (Part 2)

February 11, 2020February 11, 2020 Nat Zorach 0 Comments amtrak, ann arbor, canadian national, canadian pacific, class i railroads, conrail, DDOT, Detroit, farebox recovery ratio, hiawatha, I-75, m-10, marc magliari, mike hicks, milwaukee, rail, RTA, southeast michigan, university of michigan

One of my readers observed that she was a bit bummed out by the “yeah, but it simply can’t work

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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.

A Literal Train Wreck Makes A Case For Resilient Infrastructure

December 13, 2019December 13, 2019 Nat Zorach 0 Comments climate adaptation, climate change, climate resilience, infrastructure, investor-owned utilities, rail, resilience, utility infrastructure

A train derailment yesterday morning in Southwest Detroit knocked down a power line, leaving about a thousand residential and commercial

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