Burgerbanism No. 3: Take Indy’s BRT to Delectable Southern Cuisine at Root & Bone
In town for a long weekend that involved a multi-part wedding extravaganza, I headed down south, as it were, to
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transit infrastructure
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.
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What If We Can’t Wait? Public-Private Partnership Solutions for Infrastructure
The RTA is planning on returning in 2022– again- to revisit a ballot measure to fund regional infrastructure investment in Southeast Michigan. Can we wait for 2022? Should we explore alternatives in the meantime?
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A Biden Presidency: Full Speed Ahead On Transit?
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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Gretchen Whitmer: When We Say “Mobility,” We Really Mean “Cars”
Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer’s Council on Future Mobility is not about mobility, it’s about cars. That’s got to change if we’re serious about decarbonizing transportation– or building an equitable future of any kind.
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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.
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Tour of Ford’s Michigan Central Station Project
Michigan Central Station, the iconic, hulking, centenarian structure that has sat vacant for decades, is perhaps the flagship redevelopment project
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Climate Leadership Conference: Decarbonizing Transportation, One Electric SUV At A Time?
One recurring theme at last week’s Climate Leadership Conference was the topic of decarbonizing the transportation sector. Transportation accounts for
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It’s Not Infrastructure If It’s Just Roads
I spoke with Brian Calley on proposals to fix the damn roads– and to understand whether Republicans might consider transit a good complement.
Read MoreBridging The Transit Gulf: APTA Conference in Tampa
I just wrapped up a few days in Tampa for APTA’s Transit Initiatives workshop. The mini-conference, produced by the DC-based
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