Friday, April 30, 2010

No Phone Zone pledge

"Distracted driving: Legislature takes on texting" - ajc.com

"ABC7 teams up w/ Oprah for No Phone Zone Day" - abc7.com

We need this 365 days/year!

"Pro-Pedestrian Law Passes Illinois Senate, Heads To Quinn’s Desk" - theexpiredmeter.com

I am not sure what the law is in NC on this point, but this strikes me as very good policy. We ought to do this well or better. And we need even more crosswalks, in part to slow down traffic!

Wednesday, April 28, 2010

"Makeover Seeks to Tame Rockville Pike in Maryland" - NYTimes.com

I'd love to see the master plan for making all of Chapelboroham a giant walkable community, instead of a automobile community with occasional sightings of walking people.

54

Two traffic cirlces on 54 in the section where it is also 15-501 would go a huge distance toward reducing the unnecessary traffic backups that we see near the Catholic school and the main turn off to go into the UNC campus. Imagine if cars basicaly were always merging and rolling, and never stopping; that's the value of the traffic circle if engineered well.

Thursday, April 22, 2010

BE-cycle Nice : livraisons rapides et écologiques" - France 3

Does anyone provide this service in Chapelboroham? This seems to be a national chain. Do we have such an operation in the US?