New Albany's new slogan: "Truck Through City" ... Part 96: Let's make them safe, legal and rare.

Conversely, Jeff Gahan can continue sitting on his hands, doing nothing.

Sounds like a plan.

New Albany's new slogan: "Truck Through City" ... Part 88: Coffee break's over, BOW. Back on your heads.

Street Grid Quote of the Week, from frequent reader DH:

"At least no one is trying to bring back the drag strip light at Spring & 15th. Only light I ever saw that went yellow going from red to green."

SHHHH -- don't give them any ideas, DH.

In honor of the primary election, we took last week off, but out there, in humid light of day, it's still Truck Through City. Here are a few links the Bored of Works may have missed.

City Hall non-transparency yet again: Independent downtown businesses negatively impacted by Saturday farmers market street closing.

Drive like your family lives here ... because your choices matter.

"Really do it right": Transue rebuts Morris's street grid confusion.

Paris: "Seeing the city in another way than through the use of cars."

Our street grid + human rights + social justice = what needs to happen right now.

The problem remains that while the Board of Works dithers and yawns at the terrified mayor's behest, we have unsafe high-speed, truck-filled streets slicing through neighborhoods struggling to revive. We're being told that 18 months must elapse to even consider implementing safe design?

Is that really acceptable, Chairman Naps?

If it can be done in Salt Lake City ...

But we can't do that HERE, Matt. New Albany is ... exceptional.

New Albany's new slogan: "Truck Through City" ... Part 87: Trucker tort is rejected, so the same vehicles continue to defile downtown streets as the Bored of Works does nothing.

Well, not exactly nothing.

After all, board chairman Warren Naps has been busy creating creative electoral art installations, like the one pictured above.

As the heavy trucks continue to thunder past, we have learned that the city actually is willing to publicly differ with the tort claims of trucking and heavy industrial value extractors, even if nothing will be done to address the damage they're doing to other downtown streets apart from Main Street, and in spite of the mayor as yet being unable to state a viewpoint.

Tort claim to reverse East Main Street work in New Albany denied, by Daniel Suddeath (N and T)

NEW ALBANY — The city will reject a tort claim filed on behalf of some of the largest trucking and hauling companies in New Albany demanding the East Main Street project be removed and any similar changes proposed for Spring Street be scrapped.

Is it yet the the neighborhood's turn to sue Gahan for terminal inaction?

By the way, here are the porn stud heavy metal wheeled shots for the week.

New Albany's new slogan: "Truck Through City" ... Part 86: Bored of Works to approve Arch de Capitulation on 5th St., facing Padgett.

He wants to turn back the clock to a halcyon youth in pre-Eisenhower days, but for heaven's sake, just calm down, Irv. One-way streets are bad for everyone but speeding cars.

In fact, there are many reasons to regard one-way streets as a disease.

Not only that, but complete streets are a bargain -- at least when maximizing campaign contributions from contractors and construction interests aren't a mayor's primary goal.

Alas, last week, Chairman Naps presided over the Bored of Works as the predicted gutting of Speck's downtown street network proposals began, with Mayor Jeff Gahan giving the finger to complete streets advocates.

In part, federal funding prerequisites supposedly were behind City Hall's abject street grid surrender, but upon closer examination, all the extra expense, time, and proposed iterations have nothing to do with securing federal funds. In short, John "Pinocchio" Rosenbarger conducted yet another drive-by whopper as the Bored glanced furtively at their iPhones.

Only two days later did the reason for this full-scale retreat become evident, when Padgett, Tiger, EM Cummings Veneer, Kaiser Wholesale, et al, revealed a lawsuit against City Hall over the Main Street dishevelment project.

The trucking mafia's tort claim notice offered a preview into a lawsuit borne of a jihad against modernity, one designed to stop Speck in its tracks ... which the mayor already had been doing before the lawsuit became a factor. Who's on first, anyway?

So few answers for attribution, although we're not without an enduring if archaic constant: If ya wanna ask a question, sonny boy, then you'll have to take a vacation day, because the Bored's meeting's is at 10 a.m. on a Tuesday, and in an era of instant communication with virtually every corner of the globe, Warren Nash will speak to you only via an official audience in HIS meeting room.

I wonder if the Pope has an iPhone?

New Albany's new slogan: "Truck Through City" ... Part 85: Ya wanna ask a question? The meeting's at 10 a.m. on a Tuesday, sonny boy.

At least when docked amid the squalor of Tiger's "warehouse," they don't rattle the windows on the house. Scroll past the weekly trucking fetish porn to a revealing Fb conversation, recounted below.

As a courtesy because he finally said something after these many months of self-imposed laryngitis, I'll play it straight and refrain from the satire ... well, a bit.

Following is a Fb chat between me, Warren Nash (Board of Works) and some other fellow I don't know.

Roger: It's just a tad disingenuous to criticize a civilian's comments when you, as a high-ranking functionary, enjoy looking the other way when the questions don't suit you. Just because it's an election year, this doesn't give you a free pass, does it?

Warren V Nash: No Roger it really isn't - I have never ducked a question - the Board that I am on meets every Tuesday at 10:00 am - I don't/can't speak for the Board between meetings and for many reasons, including liability, I don't answer question about City Government on social media. I am sure you can understand that.

(at least one sycophantic council candidate "liked" the preceding)

MB: Warren is right about the social media thing. The board's social media site or webpage would be more appropriate.

(eyebrow cocked)

Roger A. Baylor: Then perhaps the board needs such a portal. As it stands, I believe we're being told that physical attendance at a 10:00 a.m. board meeting is the requirement. I can do that, but many people DO work. It's things like this contributing to City Hall's current reputation for non-transparency.

MB: I am sure the City has an official website

(after I stopped laughing)

Roger A. Baylor Go look at it and tell me how useful it is for two-way communications. The city's web site does not even include information about its Ethics Commission, which was established three years ago. Again, we're being told that the single best (social) medium for actual communication cannot be used (except by the city's public relations contractor), so maybe something else will come up, some time, preferably after the election. That's simply inadequate -- and purposeful.

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Notice how quickly the silence was reinstated?

Altogether, now: Warren, what about the traffic issues borne of poor street design on Spring, Elm, and Market?

Is your board, the one ostensibly formed to "operate" the city's infrastructure, going to do anything, ever?

Do I need to come to your 10:00 a.m. meeting for you to answer these questions?

And when I do, and you still don't ... what's the excuse then?

New Albany's new slogan: "Truck Through City" ... Part 84: November, that's what.

Customarily, I sign in to speak during public speaking time at city council meetings so as to provide closing commentary on whatever foolishness occurred prior to the final act. On those occasions when there is nothing to add, I'll say "pass" or some such.

Last night, it was suggested that a better reply would be, "What's the use?"

There've been a good number of dump trucks shaking the window panes lately, but it's an election year, and Warren Naps and the BOW Coquettes don't give a damn. Neither does Jeff Gahan, Adam Dickey or David Duggins.

What's the use?

Oh, I don't know. It starts at about 15%, I think.

New Albany's new slogan: "Truck Through City" ... Part 83: No karaoke for Warren Naps & the Bored of Works until the DemoDisneyDixiecratic Party approves.

It's an election year, and bright new green street signs with a spanking new city logo (approved by whom?) are as ubiquitous as fast food litter, but more on that another time.

Many old signs remain where they've always been, like this one -- rather hard to see while traveling westbound on Spring where the one-way traffic begins.

Close up courtesy of K.

Of course, the question has been asked many times before: What is meant by heavy trucks?

Yet, throughout the decades, and especially during the present time of our revolution of as yet unheeded rising two-way expectations, the Bored of Works remains unable or unwilling to answer it.

So, is this truck preparing to turn onto Spring Street to be classified as "heavy"?

Is there an ordinance governing heaviness, or not? Is shaking houses enough?

Does the state have rules about it, or not?

If there are rules in effect, why aren't we enforcing them?

To what extent has the horribly botched Main Street project, acclaimed by Mayor Gahan as a cornfed Avenue des Champs-Élysées, played into these questions being purposefully ignored?

Over the weekend, Warren Nash broke his silence and conceded that he's under no obligation to be social to folks who aren't a member of his political party.

"Not answering a question or even acknowledging it on social media from a political candidate is not being deceitful."

Evidently I've substantially burdened the practice of his political conscience -- and I plan to continue doing so. He's a gatekeeper functionary and a party hack ... looks like the feeling is mutual.

Following is the 500th "truck through city" photo in this series. It's what residents and visitors alike want our city to be about -- right, Warren, Jeff, Adam and gang? Because if it wasn't, you'd actually do something, wouldn't you?