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03.04.10

Savannah Bicycle Campaign, B Street Salon forge partnership Advocacy, Business, Economics, Transportation | (0)
What can a business do to become truly bicycle friendly? The first step might be to correct policies that discourage bicyclists from patronizing an establishment. Providing secure bicycle parking is another way to attract those who shop by bike. To truly make the leap from bike tolerant to bike friendly involves rewarding cycling customers and supporting groups that promote bicycling. B Street Salon in Savannah is leading the way. According to Savannah Bicycle Campaign Chairman Drew Wade, the partnership with the salon is important for a number of reasons. “We’re thrilled about the concept. We are encouraged to see more businesses ...
03.03.10

It’s a big week for bicycles in Savannah Advocacy, Education, Transportation | (0)
While the big news on the streets of Savannah yesterday involved a presidential motorcade, a different sort of vehicle should get more attention as bicycle-related events round out the week. On Thursday, March 4 at 9 p.m., the bicycle culture movie "Veer" will be screened at SCAD's River Club. Sponsored by SCAD's student news organization and Desoto Row Gallery's "Spoked" bicycle art festival, the Matthew Modine-narrated film is free and open to the public. It's preceded at 7 p.m. by a screening of the indie rock music poster documentary, "Died Young Stated Pretty." On Friday morning, the Savannah Bicycle Campaign's ...
03.02.10

Crash your car? No big deal. Get hit by a car? You’re a criminal! Transportation | (2)
The news that a man was hit by a car and critically injured crossing Bay Street brought out the worst in some of my fellow citizens. Commenting on a story in the Savannah Morning News, they celebrated the fact that "karma got this guy." The pedestrian, 36-year-old Joshua Goodwin, was described as a "perp" and a "criminal" while listed in critical condition at Memorial Health University Medical Center on Saturday night. News the next day that his condition improved must have been a bummer to the person who hoped Godwin's injuries would be a "lesson to the jay walkers on Bay ...
02.17.10

Defending the right to be irresponsible behind the wheel Government, Transportation | (5)
Forgive the use of this obvious and overused phrase: Americans have very special relationships with their cars. But it's true and a couple things I read this week reminded me of this. First, this letter to the editor of the Savannah Morning News (scroll down to "Safe driving a personal responsibility") that acknowledges the danger of texting while driving, but warns we should keep government our of our cars. "People can do what they want while they drive. The state representatives cannot stop anyone from reading and responding to text messages. It is neither their phone nor their car, so they ...
02.15.10

Series of workshops to imagine MLK without the I-16 overpass Business, Government, Land Use, Neighborhoods, Planning, Public Space, Transportation | (0)
As reported by the Savannah Bicycle Campaign last week, The Savannah-Chatham County Metropolitan Planning Commission and the Savannah Development and Renewal Authority are holding a three-day public workshop and charrette "to examine feasibility of removal of the I-16 exit ramps at Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd and Montgomery Street, and to address redevelopment along the 52-block corridor." The event is scheduled for Feb. 17, 18 and 19 at the Con-Ed Resource Center Ball Room, 714 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. A flier for this event can be downloaded here. Eric Curl wrote about the potential for flyover removal in the Savannah ...

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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...
- Jeremy: www.recyclechatham.org