Showing posts with label auto-centrism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label auto-centrism. Show all posts
Wednesday, July 25, 2018

Windmill dunk by Richard Florida: "America devotes far too many of its precious resources to parking."

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Outside, it's New Albany, and in this map prepared a few years back by Jeff Gillenwater, parking areas in downtown are colored red. G...
Saturday, July 21, 2018

Richard Florida: "Today, the car plays a central role in worsening America’s social, political, and economic divides."

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"I’m not trying to blame the car for everything that’s wrong in America. But it is increasingly clear that in addition to wasted tim...
Saturday, May 12, 2018

Summers announces plan to "Walk the Walk" by enhancing car-centrism via the Market Street medians. We advocate nuking them to outer space.

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As the photos show, reducing the sidewalk width of the north side of Market between Pearl and State means having to cut even more tree...
Wednesday, April 25, 2018

In New Albany, Jeff Gahan still is "cowering before the demands of drivers," but "more and more cities are deciding to wrest control of their streets back from the tyranny of the automobile."

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Thanks, B. Jeff Speck devised a plan for downtown street grid reform. It was emasculated by Deaf Gahan's anointed and indemnified c...
Friday, February 09, 2018

Auto-centrism: "A reminder, one we don’t often consider, of the enormous temporal, financial and societal sacrifices we make to ensure that we live where we want and encounter only who we want, when we want."

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I went for a walk last night around 7:00 p.m., using the south sidewalk on Spring, where traffic was moving fast. At least the police w...
Thursday, November 09, 2017

"The negative consequences of car dependency."

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Idea credit: Bluegill. The conclusion first: Car-centric towns are isolating, discriminatory, expensive, harmful to small businesses...
Wednesday, November 01, 2017

Strong Towns Week: A hat trick by Marohn (autocentrism's cost, invasive semi-trailers and insidious Wal-Mart).

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I'm a member of Strong Towns , and suggest you take advantage of this week's "greatest hits" output ... This week, w...
Wednesday, October 11, 2017

"Pedestrians, who are supposed to have the right-of-way, are required to press a button at an intersection in order to get a walk signal, which should happen automatically."

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And while we're on the topic of our spanking new beg buttons ... ABOUT THOSE PESKY PEDESTRIAN CROSSING BUTTONS ... , by Rachel Q...
Monday, September 04, 2017

When humans outrank anchors 'n' autos: "It’s not about making all cities like Amsterdam. It’s about making them better versions of themselves.”

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Well, at least the hue and cry over Spring Street bike lanes recently repainted   ( they've actually been there since 2009 ) has less...
Friday, August 25, 2017

On the errant notion of bicycle licenses.

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"I'll be working on the assumption that policy-making is a rational tool to create a better society, not a punishment for percei...
Friday, August 04, 2017

"Congratulations, Honolulu, for battling a surge in pedestrian deaths by punishing prospective victims."

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The following words summarize the scandal-plagued Gahan administration's approach (more accurately, its absence) in using Jeff Speck...
Wednesday, August 02, 2017

Now, if he'd ever think to use that anchor on speeding cars ... then we might be slowing somewhere.

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But here are a few words that rhyme with anchor: banker, canker, chancre, danker, flanker, hanker, manker, planker, rancor, rancour, rank...

Autocentrism: Isn't it time to free ourselves from the chokehold of the car?

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The underlined passage might as well refer directly to the colossal missed opportunity of New Albany's Downtown Grid Modernization Pr...
Friday, July 28, 2017

Parking terror! "Mexico City just made it easier for real estate developers to avoid building parking."

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Only recently, we surveyed alleged radicalism that isn't radical at all. Chatting on Fb about the street grid in NA: "The push...
Sunday, July 09, 2017

Chatting on Fb about the street grid in NA: "The push to start reclaiming some of our streets and spaces for users and uses other than cars isn't a radical change."

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My friend and colleague Jeff Gillenwater posted the following to New Albany Indiana , a Facebook group that functions somewhat like the d...
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Saturday, July 08, 2017

Leotards, brimstone and "How Amsterdam became the bicycle capital of the world."

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Dan Coffey in Hell. I'm reminded of former council person Larry Kochert's enduring obsession with biking shorts. Leotards ...
Wednesday, June 21, 2017

The Arnhem-Nijmegen Cycle Superhighway, and fighting climate change by battling autocentrism.

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This video makes me want to cry with joy (it's been far too long), then lash out with anger. You go over there and see what's ...
Monday, June 19, 2017

Traffic congestion: "The real solution is convincing fewer people in town to own cars, and convincing people who do own cars to use them less to get around town."

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Let's get congested -- not the Ohio Valley muck, but the words of Jeff Speck: “Were it not for traffic congestion, we would drive eno...
Thursday, May 11, 2017

Driver jailed for three years for ramming cyclist, though nowhere near here -- but that's okay, because bikes will win in the end ... nowhere near here.

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Wait -- is this a glimmer amid the riverbank anchor's mud? Here's a refreshing headline, one seen about as often in metro Louis...
Friday, May 05, 2017

As "Berlin's Streetcars Go West," we've been going south.

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Photo credit. It's what we're missing in this desolate, auto-centric idiocracy . Except that once upon a time, we had it. Enj...