Showing posts with label traffic calming. Show all posts
Showing posts with label traffic calming. Show all posts
Wednesday, September 09, 2020

I'm in Love with My Car.

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A Twitter user encapsulates: "We need to take radical steps to build more resilient, equitable communities that reverse our climate-...
Saturday, August 24, 2019

Charles Marohn went to Paris and learned a lot of simple things that elude us in America.

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"I’m not suggesting it would be easy or straightforward for North American cities to become Paris, but as my friend John Anderson ha...
Tuesday, December 11, 2018

In Brainerd MN as in New Albany IN: "I find myself having to accept another senseless death, another feeble response, and the promise that nothing is going to change anytime soon."

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Marohn's description (link below) of Wise Road in his hometown of Brainerd can be easily visualized in the context of Spring Street i...
Saturday, November 10, 2018

Not in Nawbany, but in Idaho: "Main Street is no longer only a place for cars — it is a place increasingly linked to public spaces built by and for locals."

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As it pertains to taming the inadequacies of a high-speed, pass-through street grid, Mayor Jeff Gahan and his merry band of minions have ...
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Monday, September 10, 2018

Yes, the fight to remake streets for the use of all people, and not only their cars, is a social justice issue.

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The AARP understands it , too. Crossing the street shouldn’t have to mean crossing your fingers and hoping for the best. While unsafe ...
Sunday, August 19, 2018

Green street design: New Albany can't have nice things because our "leaders" don't, and our "pillars" aren't.

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Because for the clique to even intelligently discuss it, they'd first be compelled to imagine it. They can't, and it's not ev...
Wednesday, May 23, 2018

New Albany doesn't have the balls for this traffic calming solution.

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"Traffic calming measures aren’t just concrete and strategic design: they’re a clear signal that drivers don’t own the roads we li...
Friday, October 06, 2017

South Bend: "But why slow down traffic at all? A major reason is economic growth. Smart Streets isn’t just a traffic project — it’s economic development."

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A mayor who makes public speeches? How is it possible? Pete Buttigieg lays it all out. The thinking is clear, and the delivery conversa...
Wednesday, August 02, 2017

Grid Control, Vol. 18: Finally a few BoW street grid project answers, almost all of them citing "contractor error."

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I accompanied the Bookseller to yesterday's meeting of the Board of Public Works and Safety, and asked some of the questions we'v...
Thursday, April 27, 2017

City Hall institutes a 24-7 counseling center to help drivers outraged by forthcoming two-way street changes.

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Push "1" for the campaign donation line.  Meanwhile, we learn from Dat Jeffersonville Newspaper that when it comes to vehicu...

Traffic calming and street safety: "The change needs to come from the highest levels of leadership all the way down the chain," though not in #OurNA.

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It's been almost a year, and neither Jeff Gahan nor any of the posturing luminaries among his chortling pack of frat boy subalterns h...
Saturday, May 21, 2016

Why we fight: In 2014, Jeff Speck told us how street design impacts our city.

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Following is Jeff Speck's preface to his New Albany Downtown Street Network Proposal . It has been featured here previously, but it n...
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Thursday, April 28, 2016

ON THE AVENUES: You know, the two-way streets column I wrote -- 7 years ago, in 2009.

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ON THE AVENUES: You know, the two-way streets column I wrote -- 7 years ago, in 2009. A weekly column by Roger A. Baylor. These period...
Friday, April 01, 2016

Know that "traffic calming will occur prior to the tolls," just don't mention in which direction.

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Much to my surprise, earlier tonight I came tantalizingly very close to having an actual policy conversation with a City Hall operative. ...
Monday, February 08, 2016

ON THE AVENUES EXTRA: "No, John Rosenbarger, congestion is our friend. Help us achieve it, or get out of the way."

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ON THE AVENUES EXTRA: "No, John Rosenbarger, congestion is our friend. Help us achieve it, or get out of the way." A weekly web ...