OMG -- it's a pre-Harvest Homecoming sidewalk trip hazard removal miracle!

The southeast side of 10th & Elm ↑ and northeast ↓ on Tuesday, 26 September 2017.

The same views in June of this year, showing the perennial trip hazards in these two spots.

In June, NAC recalled the countless years of inaction.

Covering and uncovering trip hazards at Elm and 10th without bothering to fix the problem? Why, that's #gahansafe!

It's been almost two years since NAC somewhat belatedly pointed to pedestrian trip hazards on two corners of Elm and 10th, these having gone unaddressed for so many years that even long-term residents couldn't recall the exact duration.

How many years to remove two hunks of trio-hazard metal and fill in the holes?

#HisNA #WhatATrip

Covering and uncovering trip hazards at Elm and 10th without bothering to fix the problem? Why, that's #gahansafe!

It's been almost two years since NAC somewhat belatedly pointed to pedestrian trip hazards on two corners of Elm and 10th, these having gone unaddressed for so many years that even long-term residents couldn't recall the exact duration.

July 30, 2015

Photo essay: Only one of these things is a liability concern for the Board of Public Works and Safety.

You guessed it: The board's big liability concern is a street piano/public art project.

Brought in 2015 to the attention of the Bored of Works and Public Safety, junta coordinator Warren Nash yawned and returned to the task of re-electing a mayor with no aptitude for detail amid grandiose TIF-laden boondoggles.

Then, without warning, someone decided to give a damn.

January 9, 2017


18 months later, lip service for the trip hazards at 10th and Elm.

We might express curiosity at the number of years required to address the trip hazard issue with the least conceivable effort, but at least someone noticed and something was done to warn walkers, if not resolve the problem.

In early June, when Elm Street milling and paving commenced, MAC's crack ... team shrugged and moved the orange traffic pylons out of the way of shaded areas where workers congregate as their machinery operates.

This week on Thursday prior to the onset of rain, I was walking and noticed that after two weeks, the pylons still hadn't been moved back to their positions guarding trip hazards that the city refuses to mitigate over a period of years, and so I replaced them.

To whom should I send my civic mindedness invoice? I'm guessing the addressee isn't Warren Nash, who no doubt will yawn and return to the task of re-electing a mayor with no aptitude for detail amid grandiose TIF-laden boondoggles.

June 22, 2017

Thinking in Nawbany? It's always anchored firmly into place, right there on the mud flats, where the Ohio River meets the end of possibilities.

ASK THE BORED: At the corner of 7th & Market, BOW celebrates two weeks of non-access for handicapped sidewalk users.

No, it isn't the sort of celebration we'd like to see, but BOW as yet has made no effort to wrap its institutional arms around modernity. It's merely procedural, Warren. You must develop good habits, and to develop them, you must acknowledge you have a problem.

Instead of this: "How will (a proposal) affect parking/traffic/cars?"

You ask this: "How will (a proposal) affect handicapped users without cars?"

In practically all annual cases, just tiny bits of forethought designed to remove two-week blockages will have no ultimate effect on the Holy Writ of Autocentrism. However, these instances will immeasurably assist the disabled in getting back and forth.

It's cultural, Warren. You're in charge. Think you might get to the task of changing the culture -- or must Jeff Gahan present it first?

When you arrive at an answer, can you have the Democratic Party ring us?

Meanwhile, here are a few highlights from the BOW meeting of Tuesday, May 30. Leading off, MAC Construction once again wins a low paving bid, although even the chairman seemed surprised at the numbers.

If $49,999 is divvied up between the Gahan for Life Fund and consulting firms owned by the mayor's minions, can someone call the Justice Department?

Better yet, observe the two instances of public reassurance with respect to tightened paving quality standards.

Could it be that those stacks of Main Street Beautification Project complaints directed against MAC finally have Team Gahan's heads turning with regard to perennially low performance standards?

Now a bit about the downtown street modernization rumor.

Market Street is next to be repaved, as slated for a June 12 start. Finally, $200K™ came forward to tackle Parking Problem #214.

The unasked and unanswered question: Does ordinance enforcement begin or end with this block?

Don't hold your breath waiting for $200K™ to answer.