Showing posts with label crosswalks. Show all posts
Showing posts with label crosswalks. Show all posts
Tuesday, August 27, 2019

Gahan eats a Danish, installs campaign finance-themed pedestrian crossing signals.

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The Green Mouse received a link from a friend:  Danish city installs Viking-themed pedestrian crossing signals  (text below). What happened...
Sunday, February 10, 2019

Team Gahan always doubles down on car-centrism, but "Seattle Tosses Out (the) Rulebook to Protect Pedestrians."

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Just think about all those times when the bored of works enumerated the many splendid reasons why they couldn't (wouldn't) help m...
Sunday, April 15, 2018

This means you: "STOP FUCKING DRIVING YOUR CAR AT PEOPLE."

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This insightful comment to a fine rant clarifies the problem of bad design affecting outcomes. Perhaps Larry Summers can elucidate, assum...
Sunday, November 26, 2017

"Walking While Black": If you think car-centrism sucks, welcome to pedestrian racial profiling.

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We've been here before. Walking is not a crime: Dunman and others on the scourges of jaywalking in auto-erotic America. But this ...
Wednesday, November 08, 2017

There are at least two types of water parks in New Albany: TIF-tastic Showplaces and Inadvertent Crosswalk Meltdowns.

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At Monday evening's city council meeting, at-large councilman David Aebersold (R) reported that he'd been told about photographs som...
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...
Friday, September 08, 2017

The end of the beginning: "Blame the road design, not the phone."

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When one's only strong impression about street design is that it should facilitate his or her rapid passage through populated urban a...
Tuesday, September 05, 2017

Grid Control, Volume 25: If Breakwater's overflow parking has been "donated" by AT&T, why weren't crosswalks installed for residents to access it?

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I'll keep this one brief. Looking back to September 1, 2015, we find city officials answering prospective Breakwater parking ...
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Tuesday, August 08, 2017

ASK THE BORED: Tucson's first rainbow crosswalk -- and we get stuck with dozens of lousy anchors enabled by municipal cowardice.

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Yes, those bright rainbow colors are far more cheering than the sad visages of the bureaucrats. Crosswalks are likely to be a theme thi...
Saturday, August 05, 2017

Not in NA, at least yet: "Man In Wheelchair Struck By Car, Gets Ticket For Not Crossing Road Fast Enough."

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Our weekend message to "Mayor Jeff Gahan Presents the Board of Public Works and Safety" (shouldn't it be Board of Works...
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...
Saturday, July 29, 2017

All hail New Gahanian crosswalk puddle-a-bility: Brand new asphalt, concrete and ramps, and the same old non-drainage problem.

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And the road goes on forever ... ASK THE BORED: Mayor Jeff M. Gahan presents BOW presenting exciting new vistas in sidewalk blockag...
Monday, June 26, 2017

Just monetize, baby: Mirror imagery at Main & W. 1st.

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In New Gahania, first we look at the purse. Mark of Duggins: "An anchor fixes a potentially moving object to a place. It gets ...
Thursday, June 22, 2017

W. 1st crosswalk propaganda: Other cities allow artists to create art. Ours merely glorifies its own fix-is-in muddy anchor.

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The good news: The crosswalk the city denied was possible is almost completed. The bad news: Nothing prepares you for the public propag...
Tuesday, May 30, 2017

ASK THE BORED: Anti-climactic paving bids, Elm Street speedway work and the forthcoming W. 1st and Main intersection.

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The minutes from May 23 are in, and the low bid for this season's citywide paving extravaganza ... like always ... MAC! MAC! MAC! ...
Tuesday, May 23, 2017

ASK THE BORED: A progress report on paving, two-way streets and the crosswalk on Main at W. 1st.

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From the BOW meeting of May 16, in their own words, an update on downtown grid paving and the crosswalk project at Main and W. 1st. ---...
Tuesday, March 21, 2017

ASK THE BORED: It's a pretty penny, but safety for humans at the intersection of Main and W. 1st draws nearer.

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Three weeks ago, councilman David Barksdale confided that the Redevelopment Commission would be seeking bids at its March meeting (no minu...
Tuesday, February 14, 2017

ASK THE BORED: If the ramps were wrong, why aren't you making a slapdash contractor pay to redo them?

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I'm not sorry at all that I missed the following disjointed ADA ramp replacement chat at last week's Bored of Works meeting. BOW c...
Tuesday, January 31, 2017

ASK THE BORED: Had NA Confidential not asked, it's unlikely City Hall would have answered, so "Initial Work on Grid Modernization Begins."

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Hell, it took NAC two weeks to ask, but at least we got around to it on the 24th. ASK THE BORED: BOW directs handicapped sidewalk user...