Tag Archives: transportation planning

Just imagine how awesome of a wall we’d have around Ann Arbor if, of the past 40 years, we’d invested in bricks instead of the AATA

By Mark | April 14, 2014

I should know better than to try to make sense of the arguments being offered by the rag tag band anti-tax activists who have come together to fight the AAATA millage we’ll be voting on next month, but, when I heard that they’d launched a website, I thought that I’d check it out, and see […]

Posted in Ann Arbor, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged Ann Arbor Public Library, anti-tax, Better Transit Now, buses, Carolyn Grawi, commuter rail, elections, go!pass, Keep Ypsi Rollin', Lou Glorie, Martha Valadez, mass transit, millage, More Buses, Murph, n-word, NightRide, parking, poverty, public transportation, race and poverty, racism, Richard Murphy, tea party, the growing gap between rich and poor, trains, transit, transportation funding, unfounded accusations, University of Michigan, WALLY, Ypsi bus routes, Ypsilanti Township | 73 Comments

More Buses vs. Better Transit Now: the two sides square off in preparation for the May 6 vote on the future of mass transit in Ypsi/Arbor

By Mark | February 26, 2014

On May 6, the citizens of Ann Arbor, Ypsilanti and Ypsilanti Township are going to have an opportunity to go to their local polling places and weigh in on whether or not they want to enact a milage that would allow the Ann Arbor Area Transit Authority (AAATA) to plan to dramatically expand services. The […]

Posted in Ann Arbor, Rail, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged AAATA, AATA, AirRide, Alexis Blizman, Ann Arbor - Detroit rail, Ann Arbor Area Transit Authority, Ann Arbor Center for Independent Living, Ann Arbor Public Library, anti-tax, Better Transit Now, buses, Carolyn Grawi, commuter rail, elections, go!pass, Keep Ypsi Rollin', Lou Glorie, Martha Valadez, mass transit, millage, More Buses, Murph, NightRide, parking, public transportation, Richard Murphy, tea party, trains, transit, transportation funding, unfounded accusations, University of Michigan, WALLY, Ypsi bus routes, Ypsilanti Township | 48 Comments

The car dilemma… What do you think that I should do?

By Mark | January 27, 2013

In September of 2002, I purchased my first, and only, brand new car. I’d always told myself that I’d never buy a new car… as new cars, as we all know, are for suckers… but my old Jeep, which was built from salvaged parts by the kids in a rural Kentucky auto shop class, was […]

Posted in Mark's Life, Uncategorized | Also tagged cars, David Cross, Honda Civic Hybrid, personal transportation, SUVs, Tauntaun | 53 Comments

The future of bus service in Ypsilanti

By Mark | September 10, 2009

On Tuesday, as a cost savings measure, our City Council voted 5-1 to cut AATA route #5, and to reduce service hours on Routes #10 and #11. After trying unsuccessfully for two days to write something meaningful on the subject myself, I decided to outsource the job to someone with a much greater understanding of […]