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What Would Ann Arbor Transportation Look Like if We Really Implemented A2Zero?

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 It's pretty clear at this point (January 2022) that Council, and mostly staff, have no intention to actually attempt to get to A2Zero with regard to transportation.  If they were at all serious, they'd at least have the relevant commissions not pointing fingers at each other saying it's someone else's responsibility.  I've been to the three 'candidate' commissions at this point, trying to get them to see the scale of the problem and to start moving us there.    The Environmental Commission, which has a council mandate to deal with the environmental aspects of transportation (I know, because I was a founding member, put there to help deal with that - separate story) has pretty much washed it's hands of the topic.  They've got enough to do dealing with PFAS, the Gelman plume, and a couple other important topics.   They suggested I go and talk to the Energy Commission. The Energy Commission has always been an interesting story.  It was really Dave Konk
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Introduction, part 1

I really don't expect this blog to go anywhere (kind of channeling MJ here - if you don't expect things to go well, you at least won't be disappointed either way.) But I noticed others in my rough position out there - Scott Trudeau, Bruce Fields (hi Bruce!), and others have done blogs for a while, off and on, about planning/transportation. Since the city seems to be talking out of both sides of its mouth about climate change and transportation, I think I should at least point some things out somewhere. This is a reasonable long-format for it, so what the hell? (You might not want to read this, though, it's bound to be a lot of self-aggrandizing codswallop.)  I was born in Michigan, and raised mostly in Westland and Canton. Suburbia. I decided two important things as a teen - I was very interested in biking, and I was very interested in getting out of Suburbia. I naively assumed that smart kids in Michigan should apply to go to U of M, and back before people appli
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