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NTSB: Breathalyzers in All Cars?

September 21, 2022 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments 2020 roadway fatalities, 2021 roadway fatalities, 2022 roadway fatalities, alcohol, alcohol abuse, breathalyzer, cafe standards, car culture, car safety, cars, decreased vmt and increased fatalities, defensive driving, dot, drinking, driving fatalities, drunk driving, jackie walorski, los angeles travel nurse crash, national transportation safety board, safe driving, safety, substance abuse, USDoT, vmt

A recent release from the National Transportation Safety Board is suggesting that the federal government is considering developing new requirements

Business & Economics Mobility Energy

GM Vision Zero: Joe Biden and Mary Barra, Fiddling While The World Burns

November 18, 2021November 18, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments bbb, building back better, cafe standards, car culture, congestion, electric car, electric hummer, electric vehicle tax credit, ev tax credit, ford f150 electric, ford f150 lightning, ford mach-e, ford mustang mach-e, GM hummer EV, hamtramck, hummer ev, joe biden, mary barra, mdot, mustang mach-e, pedestrian fatalities, pedestrian safety, poletown, rivian, suv, suvs, Tesla, triple zero bottom line, vision zero, vmt, vmt reduction, who killed the electric car

As British Columbia excavates houses, roads, and, tragically, bodies, from the aftermath of catastrophic flooding, the President was in Detroit yesterday to tout the virtues of a 9,000-lb. electric car that, liberals apparently believe, will solve climate change.

Mobility Public transit Michigan Transit infrastructure Government

MDOT: Rebrand And Replace. Some Ideas From The MAP Conference.

October 28, 2021October 28, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments aicp, ambassador bridge, american planning association, auto industry, automotive, car culture, cars, chrysler, dan gilbert, dan gilbert industrial complex, EGLE, f150 super duty state of mind, Ford, ford motor company, fossil fuel subsidies, fossil fuels, green stormwater infrastructure, GSI, highways, land of the rising f150 super duty, mami, MAP, matty moroun, MDEQ, mdot, MEDC, MEGA tax breaks, michigan, michigan association of planning, mike duggan, moroun, public transit, rick snyder, road, stellantis, transit, vehicle miles traveled, vmt, vmt reduction, wendy rampson

Nat is attending the Michigan Association of Planning’s annual conference. It’s going great– especially with regard to figuring out new ways to refashion state agencies that aren’t doing their jobs.

Policy Mobility Sustainability Transit infrastructure Government

MDOT: “Making VMT Reduction A Mobility Goal Is Punitive, Combative, And Might Hurt People’s Feelings”

August 27, 2021August 27, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments AASHTO, aashto green book, brad sharlow, carbon footprint, climate change, congestion, department of transportation, green book, highway design standards, infrastructure, judd herzer, level-of-service, LoS, mdot, MEDC, michigan, michigan department of transportation, Michigan DOT, michigan economic development corporation, mobility, niles annelin, public transit, state law, state policy, toll roads, traffic, transit, transportation, transportation engineering, transportation planning, trevor pawl, vehicle hours traveled, vehicle miles traveled, VHT, vmt, vmt reduction

Representatives of Michigan’s Department of Transportation have, at two recent public meetings, firmly pushed back on the proposal that the agency must tie a reduction in vehicle miles traveled (VMT) to funding considerations for new projects– using a dubious rationale.

Mobility Transit infrastructure

Decarbonizing Transportation With… More Fossil Fuels?

May 13, 2021May 12, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments biodiesel, canadian oil, car, clean cities, CMAQ, colonial pipeline, community multiscale air quality modeling system, congestion mitigation and air quality, corn ethanol, diesel, diesel fuel, driving, enbridge line 5, environment great lakes and energy, ethanol, F-150 Super Duty State of Mind, Gretchen Whitmer, judd herzer, matt galbraith, michigan, Michigan DNR, Michigan EGLE, office of future cars, panicum, panicum at the disco, petroleum, switchgrass, trevor pawl, vmt, vmt reduction

I just want clean air and buses. Is that so much to ask?

Business & Economics Urban Planning Transit infrastructure Infrastructure

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,