Showing posts with label transportation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label transportation. Show all posts
Saturday, November 16, 2019

“What are the best Urban Planning Books Of All-Time?”

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Not one of the nine books.  I'll willingly concede that I've read only two of the nine (Jeff Speck and Janette Sadik-Khan). It ...
Tuesday, June 18, 2019

"Getting people out of cars and rebuilding our main streets is not going to be easy, and cannot be oversimplified."

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I appreciate the author's candor in this short but unsparing look at the realities of striving toward walkability. The bullet points ...
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...
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...
Tuesday, September 04, 2018

Take note, progressives: "We’ve built an unsustainable transportation network that makes all of us feel isolated, vulnerable and embattled, no matter how we’re getting around."

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It is my aim to continue repeating this simple fact: one needn't be a progressive to grasp messages like the following, but if you co...
Saturday, December 02, 2017

New rules of thumb in transportation planning provide thumbnails for scoring local political aspirants.

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It occurred to me to backdate this post to 2004, thus providing enough time for 4th district councilman Pat McLaughlin to methodically c...
Monday, November 27, 2017

"American cities are getting a little loosey-goosey with curb control, experimenting with policies that just might make the places more livable, for everyone."

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Blocking handicapped parking to light the Christmas tree. Quintessential New Albany. As it pertains to HWC Engineering's ham-fist...
Wednesday, August 02, 2017

Autocentrism: Isn't it time to free ourselves from the chokehold of the car?

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The underlined passage might as well refer directly to the colossal missed opportunity of New Albany's Downtown Grid Modernization Pr...
Thursday, May 11, 2017

Driver jailed for three years for ramming cyclist, though nowhere near here -- but that's okay, because bikes will win in the end ... nowhere near here.

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Wait -- is this a glimmer amid the riverbank anchor's mud? Here's a refreshing headline, one seen about as often in metro Louis...
Friday, March 10, 2017

Golden oldie, no less vital: "Attacking the Language Bias in Transportation Engineering."

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Cartoon by Ian Lockwood.  My advice stays the same. Print this 2013 article on card stock. Roll it up and add a rubber band. The next...
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...
Wednesday, May 11, 2016

Wouldn't it be nice if New Albany officials spoke publicly about the economic benefits of complete streets?

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... you know, instead of remaining perpetually on the down-low, and refusing to modify one-way streets, and always finding auto-centric ...
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Monday, April 25, 2016

"On a main street, that which looks like 'vehicle delay' to a traffic engineer looks like economic activity and success to a local merchant."

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What it looks like to Jeff Gahan is complete and utter  incomprehension. Tell the Feds: Don’t Turn City Streets Into Highways , by Ang...
Sunday, March 27, 2016

"Highway engineers dominated the decision-making. They were trained to design without much consideration for how a highway might impact urban fabric."

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If we retained the public transportation infrastructure we possessed 100 years ago, Bulldog fans could have taken the train to Indianapol...
Wednesday, January 20, 2016

"Study: States wasting billions on highways."

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In New Albany, the builders, pavers and excavators tithe back to the politicians who funded them with public money. Gee, you don't thi...
Sunday, November 08, 2015

Speck casually advises Cincy: "None require widening a road; it’s simply a matter of restriping them."

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Let's live dangerously and reprint the entire article (below). It's too good to miss, and hits close to the target. As you'...
Friday, September 04, 2015

"When you design a city for cars, it fails everyone."

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In a way a water park simply cannot do. "The new transportation system in Medellín ... is not only a physical solution. It is not on...
Tuesday, May 26, 2015

Here, there, everywhere: "Creating real transportation options" for all residents.

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Specifically in this case, Denver, but the implications for Louisville metro are fairly clear. Is the ORBP boondoggle finished yet? Loc...
Thursday, May 14, 2015

"Debunking the Myth That Only Drivers Pay for Roads."

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The author writes, "The point is that America is an increasingly (and, now, majority) multimodal place, with a transportation network t...
Saturday, April 25, 2015

One article you simply MUST read: "Cities for People—or Cars?"

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Photo credit: Shutterstock, via The American Conservative I'm pulling two paragraphs below as teaser, but you simply must read the ...
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