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07.22.09

Savannah Bicycle Campaign launches Web site for night ride Advocacy, Recreation, Transportation | (0)
The Savannah Bicycle Campaign has sponsored scores of casually-paced group rides, most notably the annual Earth Day Wheelie Ride, which attracts hundreds of cyclists. The group has sponsored additional Wheelie rides and monthly group commutes. Now the SBC is adding another event to its schedule: The Midnight Garden Ride gets underway at 8 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 5: "The Midnight Garden Ride is a non-competitive, nighttime charity bike ride through Historic Downtown Savannah. Six and 12 mile options will wind through historic Savannah under the live oak canopy and a full moon." The event also includes a party and costume contest. Proceeds support ...
06.03.09

Savannah Tree Foundation to mark National Trails Day with new signage at Bacon Park Advocacy, Conservation, Energy, Land Use, Public Space, Recreation, Recycling | (1)
The Savannah Tree Foundation has been working with its partner, the City of Savannah, to help install back-country style natural walking trails in Bacon Park Forest. According to a press release: “We’ve been working with the city on developing natural walking trails at Bacon Park Forest for years,” said Diane Houston, President of the Savannah Tree Foundation. “While this day marks the beginning of the trail installation process, it’s also the culmination of a great deal of time spent by our organization and staff from the city’s Leisure Services Bureau to develop the concept and design. This is a great moment ...
05.05.09

Is Savannah bicycle friendly? It depends on your perspective Advocacy, Public Space, Recreation, Transportation | (1)
Sometimes it's impossible to discern the intent of Vox Populi comments in the Savannah Morning News. Take this one: "Savannah will always be as bicycle friendly as the Autobahn is to a Moped rider." Is this an indictment of Savannah's aggressive drivers? A warning to cyclists? An affirmation of the absolute dominance of cars on local streets? We will never know. When evaluating Savannah's bicycle friendliness level, it all depends on how you look at it. This weekend hundreds of cyclists visited Savannah to participate in a ride benefiting a very good cause. As they turned right onto Habersham Street from Washington Avenue, they ...
04.18.09

What to do today Advocacy, Education, Recreation | (1)
03.02.09

Planning for people, not cars Land Use, Planning, Public Space, Recreation | (1)
I was finally able to catch Fred Kent's much-talked-about Savannah lecture in reruns, so to speak. An edited version of his Feb. 6 appearance at the Coastal Georgia Center aired on Government Channel 8 last Thursday night. I was struck by this comment from Kent: "If you plan for more cars and traffic," he said, "you get more cars and traffic. If you plan for people and places, you get more people and places." Those unfamiliar with the daily rhythms of Savannah's Forsyth Park might presume the photo above was taken during a festival of some kind or at least on a ...

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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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