Showing posts with label Speck Downtown Street Network Proposal. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Speck Downtown Street Network Proposal. Show all posts
Friday, February 07, 2020

Speck's unfulfilled plan: Intellectually lazy carpetbagging shortcuts from clueless Louisvillians don't make New Albany's streets any safer.

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On Wednesday in LEO   Dead to Me Weekly , there was an extended hymn of praise for New Albany's Jeff Speck-inspired street grid re...
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Monday, July 15, 2019

Jeff Speck: "NA hired a local engineer who un-protected our bike lanes."

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Jeff Speck gave us hope, but Jeff Gahan gave us the same old boilerplate. Recently when Speck returned to New Albany to give Gahan cr...
Friday, June 14, 2019

Gahan's street grid sausage-making: CNA 27 tour attendees, please help us -- New Albany is being held hostage by New Urban Imposters.

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Today's the 14th, and perfect weather for New Albany's leadership cadres to mislead people -- and make no mistake, that's exa...
Friday, May 24, 2019

Gahan, Rosenbarger set to go full frontal Pinocchio about their urbanism credentials when the Congress for the New Urbanism 27 meets in Louisville June 11-15.

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Jeff Speck's coming to the Congress for the New Urbanism's CNU 27 in Louisville. On Wednesday afternoon (June 12) in Louisville h...
Sunday, April 21, 2019

Three years later, it's still the essay Jeff Gahan doesn't want you to read: "Want Community? Build Walkability."

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Originally published on February 4, 2016. There's a compelling argument to be made that by doing as little as humanly possible to bro...
Tuesday, February 26, 2019

ON THE AVENUES: Pretty in pink slips, aren’t they? Those who mutilated Speck need to be cashiered.

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Yes, it's true that I've been indulging in reruns, but hear me out. For the past two weeks I've been using all my spare mom...
Tuesday, January 29, 2019

ON THE AVENUES: How has the 3rd district councilman fared since this question from 2015: "Et tu, Greg Phipps?"

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ON THE AVENUES: How has the 3rd district councilman fared since this question from 2015: "Et tu, Greg Phipps?" A weekly column...
Tuesday, November 28, 2017

Grid Control, Vol. 30: These weird, useless "enhanced" crosswalk gizmos remind us that HWC's and Deaf Gahan's "complete roads" downtown are not "complete streets."

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They've been called "enhanced" crosswalks and "high visibility" crosswalks. They're a prominent feature of do...
Saturday, November 11, 2017

Tractor trailer tradeoff? After all, we want trucks to visit and spend time here in New Albany.

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Thanks again to AG for the photo. Uh oh. " They " are at it again. They have made New Albany where it is almost impossi...
Monday, September 25, 2017

Yes, Virginia, there was a time in 2011 when Dan Coffey insisted on the immediate implementation of two-way streets.

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"Coffey is arguing that it's the pedestrians that are causing trouble for the 'poor' motorist. Poor is a quote. Sub...
Sunday, August 27, 2017

Fearing an auto apocalypse on two-way streets? Why not have a drink, pop a Valium, and relax.

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I asked Jeff Speck the hottest question in town. Roger: Has there ever been credible evidence documenting a tsunami of crashes and ...
Tuesday, August 22, 2017

Grid Control, Vol. 23: City's fuddy-duddies losing their minds as the debut for a two-way Spring Street is pegged at August 29.

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Thirteen years later, it's the end of the beginning. Speaking personally, I think the Spring Street conversion announcement shoul...