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A screenshot of a tweet of a Local WDIV Channel 4 news van blocking the two-way bike lanes on Bagley Avenue in Southwest Detroit near the MIchigan Central Station project on a chilly and overcast fall evening.

Mobility Parking

What, Me Block A Bike Lane? Trouble at Ford’s Ziggurat of Mobility

November 21, 2022November 21, 2022 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments bagley st., bike lane, bike lanes, detroit police, detroit police department, economic development, Ford, ford motor company, liberty sheet metal, mannik smith, mcs, michigan central, Michigan Central Station, protected bike lanes, public safety, safe streets, sharrow, sharrows, street safety, traffic control devices, traffic enforcement

The Blue Oval scores another kind of big, fat, blue oval, rotated 90°, for its commitment to walkability and bikeability in the new Michigan Central Station project.

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How To Find Nonpartisan Consensus in Sustainable Urbanism

November 1, 2022October 31, 2022 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments andy wells-bean, bike grid, bike infrastructure, bike lane, bike lanes, bike pathways, florida, induced demand, infrastructure, mobility, naples florida, naples pathways coalition, nonmotorized infrastructure, oak & stone, paradise coast, public safety, reflection isles, ron desantis, safe streets, safety, sharrow, southwest florida, sunshine state, swf, swfl, traffic jams, transportation infrastructure

In an era when political discourse seems so fragmented, polarized, and toxic, is it possible to find consensus on any issue? A recent trip to Southwest Florida featured an interesting conversation on the subject– around transportation infrastructure that can make South Florida’s cities safer and more attractive for the large number of tourists and residents alike.

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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.

Urban Planning Mobility Public Safety

Washington, DC’s Big Car Tax Is A Novel, Necessary Approach To Traffic Fatalities.

June 7, 2022June 7, 2022 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments angie schmitt, automobiles, bloomberg, cars, complete streets, cyclist fatalities, david zipper, dc vision zero, department of transportation, district of columbia, dmv, dot, florida, high and mighty, keith bradsher, mdot, muriel bowser, pedestrian fatalities, public safety, rate of pedestrian fatalities, right of way, safe streets, street safety, streets, vision zero, warshington, warshington dc, Washington DC, we've got a delegation, why is food in dc so expensive

Pedestrian and cyclist safety has a new potential ally in the form of an annual registration tax for huge, heavy cars.

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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.

Urban Planning Mobility Cycling

Google Maps Needs To Do A Better Job Showing Pedestrian Infrastructure.

September 1, 2021September 1, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments bicycle, bike, bike infrastructure, brookland, cycling infrastructure, cyclist fatalities, dc metro, dc metropolitan branch trail, edgewood, jeff speck, mobility, nonmotorized transportation infrastructure, pedestrian bridges, pedestrian fatalities, pedestrian infrastructure, rhode island, safe streets, walkability, walking, Washington DC, wmata

Cars take center stage on Google Maps, even when you’re not looking for a driving route. It raises some interesting questions about how maps depict nonmotorized transportation infrastructure.

Business & Economics Mobility Consumer Products

Libert-e-bikes: Marketing Mobility As Freedom

August 25, 2021August 25, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments behavioral economics, bicycle, bicycles, bike infrastructure, bikes, cars, CAYMC, cycling, cycling infrastructure, e-bikes, ebikes, economics, electric bicycles, electric bikes, electrification, entfremdung, freedom, liberty, liberty machines, marketing, marx theory of alienation, michael robertson, perceived value, safe streets

Michael Robertson, who founded a peer platform of the ill-fated Napster in 1997, once referred to cars as “liberty machines.” It’s a dominant belief among many car owners. Are eBike companies challenging that assumption in their marketing material?

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Greener Streets, Safer Streets: Less Flooding Through Better Transportation Infrastructure

July 27, 2021July 27, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments albedo, bioretention, bioswale, black locust, buffer, climate, climate adaptation, climate change, climate resilience, detroit flooding, detroit street grid, flooding, floodwater, floodwaters, green stormwater infrastructure, GSI, hardscaping, impervious, mdot, MDOT engineers, pervious, rain, rainwater, rainwater detention, rainwater retention, resilient, resilient infrastructure, riparian buffer, road engineering, safe streets, shade trees, storms, street grid, street grids, street trees, streets, traffic calming, urban heat island, vision zero, water infiltration, water treatment, weather, woonerf

In the aftermath of a catastrophic flooding event a few weeks ago, Detroiters cleaned out their basements of water-damaged and

Real Estate Urban Planning Mobility Housing

Greenways, The Ultimate High-Density Corridor Development Tool?

May 21, 2021May 21, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments active living, adaptive reuse, affordable housing, AMI, bde maka ska, corridor, corridor development, cycling infrastructure, Density, density bonus, Detroit, displacement, Gentrification, high-density development, housing, housing development, inclusionary zoning, industrial corridors, industrial redevelopment, joe louis greenway, lake calhoun, lake harriet, low-density, luxury rentals, market rate rentals, mid-density, midtown greenway, minneapolis, minneapolis midtown greenway, mixed-income, mixed-use, new construction, nonmotorized infrastructure, nonmotorized transportation, pedestrian infrastructure, real estate, real estate development, recreation, rental housing, safe streets, the out-of-doors, transit corridors, YIMBY

Nat compares the Midtown Greenway in Minneapolis to the Joe Louis Greenway in Detroit, which broke ground this past week.

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.

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