One-way streets are a road to nowhere
New Albany civic planners of a previous, benighted generation transformed downtown streets like Elm and Spring into one-way arteries suitable only for encouraging vehicular speed and abetting the misbehavior of dullards, and accordingly, that’s exactly the way most drivers treat them, impeded by speed traps that are little more than cynical Band-Aids.
New Albany is a state of mind … but whose? Since 2004, we’ve been observing the contemporary scene in this slowly awakening old river town. If it’s true that a pre-digital stopped clock is right twice a day, when will New Albany learn to tell time?
Thursday, September 06, 2012
My letter in today's newspaper? Read it to your councilperson.
It's a reworked version of a piece that appeared here, just the other day. Thanks to the 'Bune's Shea Van Hoy for giving me a bit of extra space. Councilman CeeSaw, make these streets two-way!
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