Showing posts with label sharrows. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sharrows. 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, May 21, 2019

Jeff Gahan's persistent transportation hypocrisy: Electric cars win, bicyclists lose.

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If you prefer alternatives to cars, like a bicycle, then get ready to risk your life because all Jeff Gahan can do is laugh and give you ...
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

GREEN MOUSE SAYS: Hill or valley? mural or statue? Bison or weasel? Evidently Team Gahan needs reinforcements.

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Reporting from a greasy gin mill somewhere near Birdseye, the Green Mouse is stupefied.  --- Only now does it makes sense -- and you ...
Thursday, May 10, 2018

The redevelopment of the Vincennes corridor might begin right here, at the former Ray's Exhaust & Radiator.

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I walked down Vincennes Street to Mathes Pharmacy last week and noticed that Ray's Exhaust & Radiator looked deserted, because i...
Tuesday, July 18, 2017

ASK THE BORED: If bicycles should be on the street, not the sidewalk, then why has the two-way grid plan been stripped of most cycling safety measures?

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Yesterday we surveyed the scandal-plagued Gahan administration's Tour de Sharrow . Grid Control, Vol. 15: Dooring enhancement perfe...
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Monday, July 17, 2017

Grid Control, Vol. 15: Dooring enhancement perfectly epitomizes Deaf Gahan's "biking last" approach to grid modernization.

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The incredible disappearing "safe to bike here" symbol. The following words summarize the scandal-plagued Gahan administratio...
Friday, June 09, 2017

Not that Team Gahan plans to do anything about it: "Bike commuting's worst enemy isn't what you think."

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At some indeterminate point, but quite soon now, Pinocchio Rosenbarger will be out there with the paint crews, drawing those trademark ...
Sunday, March 26, 2017

This Main Street sharrows symbol feels all patched and forlorn -- and a billboard comes tumbling down.

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But just LOOK at that professional landscaping. Never a dull moment on Main Street, is there? The beautification project is the politic...
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Tuesday, February 21, 2017

It's the snazzy new bike repair station at the Farmers Market. What will lead to it, lanes or sharrows?

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They're nice features and all, though as yet we don't know exactly how much bicycling infrastructure was stripped from Jeff...
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 ...
Monday, October 24, 2016

Upper Spring work continues as drivers somehow manage to pay attention in spite of their boiling anger.

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Not that we don't have comments and questions -- like speculating about the next round of driver complaints? "WTF? Those are Floy...
Tuesday, August 16, 2016

ASK THE BORED: Finally, an Honest Sharrow in an otherwise dishonest burg.

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Here at NA Confidential , we're the volunteer sidewalk superintendents. We spend time each day, documenting the often yawning gap be...
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, February 08, 2016

Sharrows in New Albany: "A low-cost way for cities to say they’re doing something about safety and street design without really doing much at all."

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Days of future past. Nothing better symbolizes the comprehensive failure of New Albany's Main Street "Improvement" Projec...
Thursday, May 21, 2015

This bicyclist seems mistrustful of the Main Street sharrows.

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Walking to the merchant meeting at the Culbertson Mansion on Tuesday morning, I'd just crossed Main Street when I saw a person on a bicy...
Sunday, January 04, 2015

Gahan AWOL as cyclist assays new Main Street sharrows: "Someone is going to get seriously hurt or worse."

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What possibly could be unsafe with this "bike-friendly" layout? We've said it before, and we'll say it again: Sharrow...
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Monday, November 10, 2014

"Sharrows are popular because they are politically easy," and so in NA, they'll multiply like rabbits.

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Psst ... it's almost Tuesday. Someone wake up the Board of Public Works. This week at the Main Street Disprovement, Deforestation a...