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05.22.09

Jaywalking crackdown: What’s the goal? Transportation | (8)
In his May 17 "City Talk" column in the Savannah Morning News, Bill Dawers wrote what I have been thinking: In the aftermath of a recent tragedy in which two visitors to the city were struck by a vehicle at an intersection devoid of either traffic or pedestrian signals, the police are going to start ticketing pedestrians, mostly local ones, who do not obey the directions at intersections that do have signals? Why not go after the downtown drivers who do not yield to pedestrians when they are legally required to do so? The incident he references is still under investigation, but ...
05.14.09

Making bikes work by taking them there Advocacy, Business, Crime, Economics, Neighborhoods, Transportation | (1)
It happens every now and then. I'll be riding my bike to work and I'll pass another person, dressed business attire, getting into his or her car. Later, as I'm nearing my office, I'll see the same person exiting the car or cruising in search of a parking spot. It makes me wonder how many of my neighbors work downtown and could easily ride their bikes there. According to the 2004 City of Savannah Neighborhood Demographic Profiles report, there are 1,236 households in my neighborhood. How many of these contain at least one adult who is physically capable of a ...
05.12.09

Passenger rail critic ignores massive autombile subsidy Economics, Government, Transportation | (1)
A letter to the editor in Sunday's Savannah Morning News points out some classic flaws in the way we think about transportation. The writer takes aim at President Obama's ideas for high speed rail with this comment: "High-speed rail" suffers from the same problems that afflict "fight rail" and most any other sort of "rail." The construction costs just can't be recovered by the revenues generated. If there was money to be made in "high-speed rail," private enterprise would be all over it. They aren't. Government thinks this is a good idea, but government isn't required to make a profit. Exactly. The ...
05.11.09

RedeSIGN art project finds new use for old street signs, benefits good cause Advocacy, Conservation, Transportation | (0)
What becomes of old traffic signs when they are targeted by taggers, mangled by wayward motor vehicles or simply lose their reflectivity? Some signs suffering from these conditions — or that otherwise deemed unfit for continued service on Savannah streets — have been repurposed by Savannah artists, The redeSIGN Art Project, on display beginning today at 312 West Broughton St., was organized by New Moon of Savannah's Jake and Miriam Hodesh and in partnership with the City of Savannah, the Savannah Development and Renewal Authority, and The Savannah Bicycle Campaign. The show will also serve as the venue for the monthly Green Drinks ...
05.08.09

Start Early Tomorrow Uncategorized | (0)
Get your veggies at the Forsyth Farmers' Market (south end of Forsyth Park, 9 a.m. - 1 p.m.), then head over to the Morris Center for Greenfest & the Savannah Urban Arts Festival.

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- Bgrand2day: the government has no right to tell me what i can and cannot do. im can operate a car fine while texting, in fact people not texting arent always as good at driving, so i dont think the goverment can tell me not to. its violating my rights not to let me do what i want in my own car.
- Thomas: Seems as if nothing was taken from the previous incident of the terracotta lion that was destroyed by a driver speeding across the same street. I’m sure that statue was just as much of a criminal. I am curious though, as to what the driver would think about the comments on the...
- Zufechten: Every right and privilege comes with the attendant responsibility to exercise it with regard to the effects on others, whether it is dumping toxic materials, selling risky real estate derivatives, or operating a three ton truck while not paying attention. To rephrase an old saying,...
- Bryan Fordham: The logic doesn’t make perfect sense unless you begin from the assumption that the government should regulate anything potentially dangerous. I also never said it wasn’t dangerous to text and drive. But this type of hyperbolic posts don’t make the case well at all.
- Bryan Fordham: When I worked downtown, I always looked both ways before crossing one way streets. You don’t have to have too many close encounters before you wise up. But I don’t recall the police ever cracking down on that. Odd how pedestrians are the enemy, somehow.
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- Daniel: The logic of this post makes perfect sense. I don’t think the point is that anything that could possibly hurt someone should be outlawed, but that anything that has pretty good chance of hurting someone should. The evidence of the dangers of texting while driving are accepted by all...
- Bryan Fordham: So your point, then, is anything that could possibly hurt someone should be outlawed? We have laws about wild animals and swinging bats already. What about just walking down the street carrying a bat, though? I might swing it, and it might hit someone. We need a law for that, too,...
- One who knows: I believe that the police should check the vision of the driver. Assuming the driver is whom I have been lead to believe it is, he has extremely poor vision and should no longer be driving. He was also in an exhausted state which is not illegal, but may have contributed to reduced...
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