Showing posts with label one way streets. Show all posts
Showing posts with label one way streets. Show all posts
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...
Monday, August 28, 2017

Councilman Bob Caesar releases statement on the advent of two-way streets, vows continued one-way thinking.

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A carrier pigeon deposited this note into the Green Mouse's hand as he was waiting for Pastime to open, just in time for Day 2,228 . ...
Saturday, August 26, 2017

ON THE AVENUES SATURDAY SPECIAL: One-ways on the way out, because with downtown at a crossroads, they simply had to be exterminated.

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ON THE AVENUES SATURDAY SPECIAL:  One-ways on the way out, because with downtown at a crossroads, they simply had to be exterminated. A we...
Wednesday, August 23, 2017

No victory laps -- yet. Reverting NA's downtown street grid to two-way traffic is just the beginning.

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Previously: Grid Control, Vol. 23: City's fuddy-duddies losing their minds as the debut for a two-way Spring Street is pegged at A...
Tuesday, May 16, 2017

ASK THE BORED: Decades too late, but the two-way sanity project finally begins. That it took this long is an embarrassment.

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Two or three times every year, mostly on weekends during fair weather, I'll be outside doing something, and I'll hear the appro...
Tuesday, February 21, 2017

ASK THE BORED: "Design Is Better Than Enforcement To Make Cities Safer For Everyone."

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Last week, there was a rear-guard action. I'm not here to pick on Mr. Peterson. As you can see from the minutes of Valentine's Da...

Hit and run.

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It was around 11:20 p.m. on Saturday. To the east on Spring, I heard the screech of brakes and the familiar sort of automotive skidd...
Thursday, December 08, 2016

Lease now at Break Wind, get a free pass to break the city's traffic laws.

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Photo credit: The Bookseller. We already knew that Flaherty and Collins Properties received unprecedented sewer tap-in waivers, but we ...
Tuesday, November 15, 2016

Two Way Streets now? Finally? Gahan sets the bar as low as humanly possible and somehow clears it, as BOW opts for a rational street grid.

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In the worst kept secret since the Electoral College sucks, the Board of Works voted today to adopt Option B, which restores two-way traf...
Friday, October 28, 2016

Brick lamp pedestals removed from Veterans' Plaza because Irv's "safe" drivers keep hitting them.

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The topic is New Albany's Veterans' Plaza. First, a few photos illustrating progress and regress. Before: During: After ...
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Thursday, September 22, 2016

ON THE AVENUES: On two-way streets, a modest proposal for the consideration of my disoriented one-way counterpart.

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ON THE AVENUES: On two-way streets, a modest proposal for the consideration of my disoriented one-way counterpart. A weekly column by Ro...
Friday, September 16, 2016

Institutionalized counter-productivity: The apparent goal is to tear down these brand new signs in less than a year.

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On Tuesday morning, at the same time this man ... ... was explaining a proposal to revert one-way streets to their original two-way use...
Sunday, August 28, 2016

Lower speed limits "can set expectations for traffic calming redesigns in the future."

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Last week, when Mayor Jeff Gahan finally emerged from the down low bunker to speak publicly about two-way streets for the first time in m...
Friday, August 26, 2016

I read the news today. Jeff Gahan has made a brief but articulate public case for two-way streets. No, I'm not drunk.

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Coincidence? The News and Tribune's staff reshuffle earlier this week placed Elizabeth Beilman in the local government coverage ...
Saturday, August 06, 2016

Pay attention, Irv, just for once: "This is a home and a destination, not a place to pass through quickly on your way to somewhere else. The streets should be designed to reflect that."

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The author lives in Milwaukee, but her arguments apply just as cogently here in New Albany. In fact, we've outlined these same points...
Monday, July 18, 2016

Challenges for independent local businesses include one-way streets and Big Box tax evasion.

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Break the chains, build local power. On the eve of another monthly merchant meeting (Tuesday morning, 8:30 a.m., Cafe 157 at the corne...
Saturday, July 02, 2016

ENCORE: As Irv artlessly flatulates about street safety, let's look at actual real-world evidence.

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BREAKING: Proposed yard signs for the new "There's Only One Way to NA" anti-Speck group. Perhaps a nice sedative cockta...