Showing posts with label public safety. Show all posts
Showing posts with label public safety. Show all posts
Sunday, November 15, 2020

ON THE AVENUES: Karma, karma, karma, karma, karma chameleon (The Big Bang Remix).

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Pedestrians being hit by cars is a car problem. Car congestion is a car problem. Noise and air pollution from car exhaust is a car problem. ...
Sunday, November 24, 2019

"Pedestrian is one of those words that conceals what's it's talking about."

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I can recall Jeff Gillenwater and I having this conversation perhaps ten years ago, and my subsequent resolution to stop using the word ...
Monday, August 12, 2019

Slick Jeffie knows how to slow the cars, but he won't. Maybe Mark Seabrook will take action where the Democrats have failed.

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“You move through a space and you dwell in a place.” Here's another one: Streets ahead: Europe is edging towards making post-car ...
Wednesday, August 07, 2019

Remembering Matt Brewer, bidding Williams Plumbing an affectionate farewell and beseeching City Hall to give a damn about public safety.

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One year ago yesterday , Matt Brewer was struck and killed NOT by a minivan, as stated in this article, but by a DRIVER. Apparently the...
Friday, July 26, 2019

Automobile supremacy: "The machine that is the established “American Way” can commit countless legal and moral errors and be excused as an individual mistake."

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"We’ve gotta be perfect. If a negligent driver kills someone, people see it as a necessary evil. But if a cyclist runs a red light, ...
Tuesday, July 16, 2019

In America, automobile supremacy means we walk less, but we die more. Evidently we want it that way.

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Having been to Europe numerous times, and at the risk of generalizing, the basic difference is that most European countries put the brake...
Saturday, July 13, 2019

"The automobile took over because the legal system helped squeeze out the alternatives."

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I've said it before and I'll say it again: car-centrism, or "automobile supremacy," as the author refers to it, not onl...
Wednesday, June 12, 2019

#SlowTheCars ... because Slick Jeffrey Gahan doesn't give a damn about pedestrian safety on Spring west of State.

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A reader writes: I just realized that the City County Building doesn’t even have a crosswalk on Spring Street! They don’t value any pedest...
Monday, May 27, 2019

Vision Zero (not applicable in Nawbany): "Why San Francisco Is Putting Pedestrians First on Its Main Thoroughfare."

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  Gahan, Rosenbarger set to go full frontal Pinocchio about their urbanism credentials when the Congress for the New Urbanism 27 meets i...
Thursday, May 23, 2019

Public safety for non-automotive humans? Gahan fails, utterly.

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This fellow is a candidate for city council in Cincinnati. Note his words in bold. Can you imagine a New Albanian politician -- any New A...
Sunday, March 31, 2019

As with INDOT: "Good intentions get subordinated, on project after project, to destructive business-as-usual practices."

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Reading this essay you begin to grasp the nature of the problem. The same old engineering and design vendors who play the game by stuff...
Saturday, March 30, 2019

#SlowTheCars: "We need to design our streets so that drivers feel unsafe driving at speeds that are unsafe."

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Our urban streets will not be safe until we slow cars. We won't make a significant dent in slowing cars if our toolbox is a combinat...
Friday, January 25, 2019

"The status quo in American road design is claiming more and more lives, according to some transportation safety advocates."

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Lest we forget -- the ultimate in status quo. Just think about all those times when the bored of works enumerated the many splendid rea...
Thursday, January 03, 2019

"The Twelve Days of Safety Myths" is must reading for every candidate seeking office this year. How many of them will bother?

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Jeff Gahan's self-interested City Hall isn't the only governing entity that would prefer you not ask questions of the sort raised...