Showing posts with label two way traffic. Show all posts
Showing posts with label two way traffic. Show all posts
Friday, February 07, 2020

Speck's unfulfilled plan: Intellectually lazy carpetbagging shortcuts from clueless Louisvillians don't make New Albany's streets any safer.

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On Wednesday in LEO   Dead to Me Weekly , there was an extended hymn of praise for New Albany's Jeff Speck-inspired street grid re...
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Friday, June 14, 2019

Gahan's street grid sausage-making: CNA 27 tour attendees, please help us -- New Albany is being held hostage by New Urban Imposters.

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Today's the 14th, and perfect weather for New Albany's leadership cadres to mislead people -- and make no mistake, that's exa...
Friday, May 24, 2019

Gahan, Rosenbarger set to go full frontal Pinocchio about their urbanism credentials when the Congress for the New Urbanism 27 meets in Louisville June 11-15.

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Jeff Speck's coming to the Congress for the New Urbanism's CNU 27 in Louisville. On Wednesday afternoon (June 12) in Louisville h...
Sunday, April 21, 2019

Three years later, it's still the essay Jeff Gahan doesn't want you to read: "Want Community? Build Walkability."

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Originally published on February 4, 2016. There's a compelling argument to be made that by doing as little as humanly possible to bro...
Sunday, February 25, 2018

At Strong Towns: A Conversation with Walkability Expert Jeff Speck."

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Here's the pitch. Jeff Speck is a nationally-recognized expert on building walk-friendly, people-oriented places. His book, Walkab...
Thursday, November 02, 2017

Grid Control, Vol. 29: Market Street now is two-way the entire way, though it complicates parking garage access.

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For reasons unknown, the reversion of Market Street to two-way traffic (specifically, between State Street and W. 5th) was not part of the...
Wednesday, October 18, 2017

Chief Bailey on two-way streets: "I'm a big fan. I wish we had done this 20 years ago."

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Correspondingly (from The Bookseller): You know, it's hard to imagine what New Albany could have been if, as Chief Bailey said, th...
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...
Monday, September 25, 2017

Yes, Virginia, there was a time in 2011 when Dan Coffey insisted on the immediate implementation of two-way streets.

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"Coffey is arguing that it's the pedestrians that are causing trouble for the 'poor' motorist. Poor is a quote. Sub...
Wednesday, September 13, 2017

What can two-way drivers see that one-way driver's didn't?

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When Spring Street was reverted to two way traffic, some of the first comments I heard were about the urban tableau "looking different...
Tuesday, September 12, 2017

Grid Control, Vol. 26: The 2-Pocalyptic contagion claims another victim as Market Street capitulates to modernity.

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I walked the length of the Market Street reversion, and the first day of two-way traffic appears to have been smooth, with nothing near t...
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Monday, September 11, 2017

Spring Street stage block: "It's like buying a new car and then putting it in the garage and driving a rental to work."

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Regular reader J asks: By chance, did anyone notice that Friday on Spring Street the city closed the single eastbound lane for a stage...
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Sunday, September 10, 2017

New evidence reveals that New Albany area sign and banner makers contributed heavily to the two-way street lobby.

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West you see it. East you don't.