Showing posts with label infrastructure. Show all posts
Showing posts with label infrastructure. Show all posts
Wednesday, January 22, 2020

A survey of America's mayors finds that many "aren’t eager to challenge the status quo."

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"If they don’t adjust their priorities to match the urgency of the crises they’ve identified, mayors might have no one to blame for s...
Monday, October 28, 2019

Particularly in Nawbany: "Why We Need to Dream Bigger Than Bike Lanes."

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"We can’t let car companies again shape the vision for our future; if we don’t dream big now, we may never get the chance again. Let’...
Monday, September 30, 2019

More topics local candidates don't talk about: Shifting from building MORE infrastructure to making BETTER use of what we already have.

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As usual, Marohn locates the center of the target. One important question voters should be asking the Gahanites: Exactly how are we going...
Wednesday, September 25, 2019

"The car is a very specifically American symbol of freedom, but like so many instruments and symbols of American freedom, it is a tool of domination and control."

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I've said it before and I'll say it again: Not only is car-centrism, or "automobile supremacy," a form of imperialism. ...
Tuesday, August 13, 2019

Beak wetting 101: "Why Does Infrastructure Cost So Much?"

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You're advised to click through and read Marohn's essay in its entirety. In the interim, the points below are significant. I've...
Monday, June 10, 2019

Stop building new infrastructure: "One Iconoclast’s Blunt Message on Transportation Funding."

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This one's from 2015, but worth repeating. Our recent experience in New Albany illustrates Charles Marohn's basic point. We...
Thursday, June 29, 2017

"10 Steps to Fix a City," including axing anyone on staff who believes the fixes are unworkable.

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Imagine you attend a meeting of City Council, the Redevelopment Commission or the Board of Public Works and Safety, and as you're sit...
Wednesday, June 07, 2017

Why is infrastructure so expensive? “Our infrastructure incentives are all wrong. Until we fix them ... throwing more money at this system is simply pouring good money after bad.”

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Thanks, Clint. Here in New Albany, the whole fucking city is under construction. Some of the work is necessary. Other bits, not as much...
Friday, May 19, 2017

Green infrastructure? Light imprint? Low asphalt? Tell it to Summit Springs, pal.

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As for green, the only relevance it has to New Gahania in Year Six is the color of money. Great idea: Light Imprint for walkable green ...
Wednesday, March 29, 2017

"Not all development is fiscally productive. Urbanization, or more accurately, sub-urbanization, is not necessarily prosperity."

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File under "Things that occur to me as I listen to the mayor brag about Breakwater and Summit Springs." Or, "Things that...
Friday, January 27, 2017

Marohn to POTUS: "We're going to make investments in infrastructure with the systems we have, not the ones we wish we had. There are ways to get better results now."

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The excerpt here is intended as a tease only. You'll want to read Marohn's statement at the point of origin, because the links in...
Monday, January 09, 2017

Kunstler: "The condition of the country is pretty awful as we turn the corner onto 2017."

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It's been a while since we checked in with Clusterfuck Nation, where James Howard Kunstler chronicles precisely that . Here are a f...
Sunday, January 08, 2017

Next, connectivity for all? "We are not only building bridges, we are biking bridges."

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The late Kevin Richards, bridging the Czech Republic, 2006. My old friend John (original designer of the NABC keg-aloft logo) recently...
Sunday, October 30, 2016

"The town is broke because there’s a structural gap between revenue and expenses due to a suburban land use pattern that can never pay for its own obligations or maintenance."

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From the article. What is a talisman ? 1. a stone, ring, or other object, engraved with figures or characters supposed to possess oc...
Sunday, July 17, 2016

Apocalypse WOW: Pat McLaughlin thinks toll evaders will stop to shop in New Albany. Jeff Gahan doesn't return calls. Welcome to tolling preparedness, New Albany-style.

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Imagine how a local newspaper might be functioning as tolling approaches. Imagine the hard questions a reporter might be asking of local ...

Irv Stumler aghast at the prospect of "A New Life for Urban Alleys."

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Irv Stumler dozed off and dreamed of artists painting alley walls. He woke up in a cold sweat. How can Padgett's erectiles navigate...
Saturday, May 14, 2016

Bicycle Infrastructure Fail(s): "The primary problem is that traffic engineering ... still has influence on planning and urban design."

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Which is why, when you remark to an engineer that your city won't ever get the streets right until it decides that one really must br...
Monday, April 04, 2016

Infrastructure is "the foundation for our economy, for our social and cultural life."

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It's been nearly 13 years since we moved downtown, and during that time the refrain most often heard goes something like this: ...
Thursday, February 18, 2016

Yo, Warren: "Unless a city prioritizes basic service, people will not want to build roots in it."

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In a perfect world, political functionaries charged with basic infrastructure would be delighted to learn of eyesores ripe for cleaning, ...
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Wednesday, February 17, 2016

There's nothing on the city council's Thursday agenda. Imagine if they were talking about fiber optic, since City Hall won't.

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Photo credit And no, not just at an upscale apartment complex, but in the sense of infrastructure. You know ... economic development....
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