Or: My way is the highway. From today’s News-Sentinel: Bicycles, mo-peds and buggys, if they are going to use the highways, they need to have plates, insurance and a safety flag sticking up so they can be seen. And if pedestrians, pets, mailmen and woodland animals are going to dare cross a street, they must [...]
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A better Barr Street, or a barren one?
by Jon Swerens on April 8, 2008, in Downtown, Urbanism
(Jon) We at The Good City are all for downtown development, but I wonder if the improvements happening on Barr Street will have anything more than a cosmetic effect. Above is the artist’s rendition of what the area will look like. The Journal Gazette said this: Over the next three months, the city will fulfill [...]
One-way vs. two-way streets
by Jon Swerens on February 27, 2008, in Downtown, Transportation, Urbanism
(Jon) The citizens of Richmond, Va., last year had a vigorous discussion about converting downtown one-way streets into two-way streets. The Urban Richmond blog took some time to break down some of the arguments for and against such a conversion. The arguments are nowhere near cut-and-dried either way. The blog divides up the arguments like [...]
Walkable urbanism
by Jon Swerens on January 16, 2008, in Transportation, Urbanism
(Jon) Can walkability save a downtown? Christopher Leinberger in his new book, “The Option of Urbanism,” makes just such a case. This column by author Neil Peirce begins with a little suburban history lesson: (A)fter World War II, with Americans’ rush to thousands of new suburban locations, a never-before-seen norm appeared. Leinberger calls it “drivable [...]
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