Thursday, April 17, 2014

"Walkability - planning from the sky vs. designing on the ground."

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It's a video:  Walkability - planning from the sky vs. designing on the ground , from Gracen Johnson; as recommended by Bluegill.

St. Marks UCC: On the right side of New Albany street grid history.

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Wednesday, April 16, 2014

Stained Glass Gallery: On the right side of New Albany street grid history.

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NABC beer dinner at MilkWood tomorrow (April 17) or city council? You know the answer.

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At the Potable Curmudgeon blog, I mentioned an NABC beer dinner at MilkWood. The menu is above, and the story link below. As of 4:00 p.m...

New Albany's streets: Screwed by design. Why?

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The YMCA is on the south side of Main Street, with parking on the building's west side. Feast BBQ and The Exchange (sorry, but the Ho...

"(Intimidation) is exactly what drivers are counting on when they barrel through marked crossings."

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Earlier this week: Crosswalks . This 2013 story of a pro-active police "sting" operation targeting drivers who disregard cros...
Tuesday, April 15, 2014

Applying the Bloomington solution to New Albany's farmers market.

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From New Albany to Bloomington. Ninety miles, and at least that many years. Let's go right ahead and spend lots of money on the ...
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A theory of river towns, civic assets and underperformance.

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It's remarkable how at various points in their lives, New Albanians glance around them and remark, "well, we're just a dirty ol...

Mission Pedestrian: "Our mission is to improve the pedestrian environment in Santa Cruz."

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The web site of  Mission Pedestrian  (Santa Cruz CA) includes the classic  Declaration of Pedestrian Rights , but it goes considerably fu...
Monday, April 14, 2014

Indie icons, Bloomington-style.

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There is ecotourism, sex tourism, sports tourism, alco-tourism and perhaps even just plain tourism. There also is root-for-the-home-team tou...

On that "drunk mouth-breathing hilljack," and a reminder that Harvest Homecoming draws ever nearer.

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The comment below was posted on Facebook, and while my friend LF refers in this instance to her home in downtown Jeffersonville during Thund...

On the farmers market in Bloomington, and how smart things make us look dumb.

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Here's an interesting tidbit: The  Bloomington Community Farmers' Market is run by the city's Parks and Recreation Department...
Sunday, April 13, 2014

Crosswalks.

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In Bloomington, the big downtown pedway crosses a street roughly a block away from the farmers market. It can be seen only partially ...

"Capitalism simply isn't working and here are the reasons why."

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Food for thought on a breezy Sunday, as hangovers from the annual Thunder circus dissipate. Capitalism simply isn't working and here a...

Which prompts the other important question: Must we be branded in the first place?

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About New Albany, the recently affixed green banners downtown say: "The Heart of the City." Meanwhile, the city's advertisem...
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Saturday, April 12, 2014

"These aircraft ... are normally used to do stuff like carry troops, bomb buildings and kill people."

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Back in 2007, Lucinda Marshall said it so well in LEO that I needn't elaborate, apart from this stellar Michael Parenti quote from Agai...
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New Albany's one-way street grid is safe and works just fine -- says no walker or biker, ever.

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Yesterday I walked from my house to the downtown branch of my bank. My route took me south on 11th Street, then westbound on Market Street, ...

How many of those Bicentennial paving stones/seat cushions/white bread cookbooks are left unsold, anyway?

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The Green Mouse was fairly lit at the time, but he thinks he heard Bob "CeeSaw" Caesar talking mayoral politics, in the sense of a...
Friday, April 11, 2014

Why must the city of New Albany wait to take control of its own lawless street grid?

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Over at The 'Ville Voice , Jake makes a comment quite applicable to New Albany's seemingly unreformable one-way street grid. It begi...

One fine day on 13th Street.

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And it was Thursday the 10th, not Friday the 13th. The sign, of "council at large" vintage, appeared suddenly on the verge. S...