CM Price again AWOL as public meeting addresses 3rd district transportation needs.

Here's a Wednesday morning reminder from Randy Smith:

"Big parts of the presentation (from last night's public meeting) will be available for public viewing at Destinations Booksellers for the next several days. Those who were unable to attend the presentation by ACE are welcome to examine the data-filled aerial photographs during regular business hours."

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On Tuesday evening there was an illuminating public meeting on the topic of New Albany’s Inner-City Grid Transportation Study, which is an examination of the usefulness of “traffic calming,” including considerations of traffic flow, one- vs. two-way streets, speeding and accidents in the context of street design. Roughly 30 people attended, and many excellent questions were asked, and answers provided.

As the Tribune noted in its preview (New Albany downtown traffic forum set for Tuesday):

One-way traffic serves parts of Oak, Elm, Spring and Market streets as well as some north-south streets between West 10th and East 10th. Converting some or all of those to two-way traffic “is one of the alternatives we would expect to consider,” said Scott Wood, the city’s chief planner.

The study area’s boundaries are Oak Street to the north, Main Street to the south, Scribner Drive to the west, and Vincennes Street to the east. Perceptive readers will immediately see that the majority of this area falls within the domain of the city’s 3rd city council district.

The 3rd district’s incumbent councilman, Steve Price, who once commissioned his blogging ghostwriter to bloviate, “I have communicated my principles, stood by my fundamental values, and remained true to my core beliefs consistently and constantly,” once again was observed doing exactly that: Spitting vividly into the eye of his district’s neglected core neighborhoods by failing to attend. Will he now whine before the council that the crucial information about the street grid was not forthcoming?

In fact, neither CM Price nor any of his eight colleagues on the city council were to be seen last night, but both Charlie Harshfield and Maury Goldberg, CM Price’s opponents in the May primary, were there, as was Mayor James Garner. 4th district candidate Pat McLaughlin and at-large candidate John Gonder also were spotted.

Okay, that's all. Having made the sadly necessary point that certain of our "leaders" are entirely unfit for anything remotely approximating leadership, we’ll happily defer to Wednesday’s Tribune coverage of the public meeting for the nuts and bolts. It will be linked here when the time comes.