Showing posts with label bicycle lanes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bicycle lanes. Show all posts
Sunday, March 29, 2020

You're entitled to my opinion and there's ample time, so here are a few random links.

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I'm always making notes and collecting links with the idea that they might become blog posts. Of course "stuff" happens; ...
Wednesday, August 28, 2019

Pedestrians and bicyclists in Amsterdam -- and Deaf Gahan's Nawbany.

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On Monday I was walking down the sidewalk on the south side of Market when I saw a bicyclist riding down the sidewalk toward me. At this ...
Tuesday, July 09, 2019

Mouth breathers and bicycle lanes: "From congestion to cost, there are many entirely misguided arguments in circulation."

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It would be nice if we had a newspaper. It would be nice if we had a newspaper willing to ask questions of public officials. It would...
Monday, March 18, 2019

Video: "They really enjoy their cars. They think the street belongs to them, and they just don't want to share the road."

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"A new video from Streetfilms assembles the most head-scratching attacks employed by bike-lane foes, such as: Don’t let the terroris...
Sunday, October 14, 2018

City Hall says we have "sufficient" bike lanes to accommodate e-scooters. It's probably a good idea to follow the money before getting excited about the prospect.

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Photo credit. It's difficult to fathom the change. In 2015, New Albany's Board of Works and Public Safety famously dithered f...
Saturday, September 15, 2018

Aside from New Albany, "Designing greener streets starts with finding room for bicycles and trees."

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The pain of missed opportunities. Designing greener streets starts with finding room for bicycles and trees , by Anne Lusk ( The Conve...
Wednesday, August 22, 2018

At Strong Towns: Three reasons drivers should be celebrating and championing bike lanes.

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Every time you see one of these ...  ... think instead of this: The word "sharrow" is a synonym for abject capitulatio...
Wednesday, May 16, 2018

Peak Gahanism: $5 million for a single mile's road work, all the while pretending it will benefit pedestrians and bicyclists.

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It's important to clearly understand after six-plus years that any infrastructure project touted by Team Gahan as miraculous and c...
Tuesday, May 15, 2018

On Spring Street today by Breakwater, a bicyclist riding in a bike lane was hit by a driver.

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A friend just wrote that her husband was riding his bike home from work this afternoon on Spring Street and was hit by a driver, who clai...
Friday, May 04, 2018

Bicycles and sidewalks? As always, New Albany's legal stance is as clear as mud -- and City Hall gazes at the ceiling.

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Behold, another Rosenbarger bike lane triumph. We've all been here before, but the fake factoids never cease, so let's have anot...
Thursday, October 19, 2017

Satire sinks into farce as Minneapolis "bikelash" marchers park their cars to protest "Nazi Lanes."

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Photo credit: Look at all those angry white male drivers. I hesitate passing along this information, given the existence locally of sa...
Friday, June 30, 2017

Grid Control, Vol. 10: City officials predictably AWOL as HWC Engineering falls on its sword over striping errors.

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You know, the striping errors first brought to the community's attention here at NA Confidential , about which we informed newspaper m...
Wednesday, June 28, 2017

Grid Control, Vol. 8: City Hall characteristically mum as HWC Engineering at least tries to answer the cross-hatching question.

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Miraculously, there has been two-way communication of the sort that always eludes Jeff Gahan's bunker-bound City Hall team. In ...
Monday, June 26, 2017

Grid Control, Vol. 7: What will the Board of Works do to rectify HWC's striping errors on the north side of Spring Street, apart from microwaving another round of sausage biscuits?

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To reiterate, it appears that all "grid modernization" striping measurements were made from the south side of Spring, all...
Thursday, June 22, 2017

Grid Control, Vol. 5: Egg on HWC Engineering's well-compensated face as it botches Spring Street's westbound bike buffer cross hatching.

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The Green Mouse thanks an intrepid onlooker for pointing to something we've missed. "Buffered bike lanes are conventional bicycl...
Saturday, May 13, 2017

Did HWC Engineering read this? "The Quality of Bike Infrastructure Matters."

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How Speck wanted us to do it (we won't be). This excerpt from Merchant Meeting notes : Beginning on May 1st the two way street pro...
Tuesday, February 14, 2017

Welcome back, Branden and Broken Sidewalk! Now, a look at what Louisville's doing right for bicycling, since Sharrows Rosenbarger keeps getting it wrong in NA.

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This bicyclist seems mistrustful of the Main Street sharrows (2015). First things first: Branden Klayko, we're damned happy you are...
Saturday, December 24, 2016

"Our city should be responsible for ensuring the safety of all citizens using our streets, not just the convenience of drivers."

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Twitter here. Just remember at all times that if Bob Caesar can't comprehend what you're talking about, it means you're on ...
Monday, October 31, 2016

A sharrows symbol might as well be the Mark of Blithering Idiot on Jeff Gahan's forehead.

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Here's what we know, to date. It's isn't pretty. 1. Mayor Jeff Gahan has spent millions of dollars on park units connected ...