Sunday, September 30, 2012
"Des compteurs de vitesse sur les Vélos Bleus? Estrosi ne dit pas non" - Nice-Matin
My sense is that far too many bicyclists in Chapelboroham pedal at too fast a speed when sharing a path with walkers. What can we learn from Nice?
"Our range of hosting plans - Hosting"
Small Orange is in Durham. Are "we" making the most of it to make the most of us?
"Marseille : plaidoyer pour la future communauté métropolitaine" - La Provence
Why don't we go ahead and create Chapelboroham, made up of Orange, Durham and Chatham counties. What a dynamic combination that would be and it would allow a lot of nettlesome problems of the day (like searching for tax revenues) to be considered in a more logical, regional context.
Saturday, September 29, 2012
"Rules to Curb Use of Paper and Plastic Shopping Bags" - NYTimes.com
Isn't this a good time for us to rethink all of this, based on solid data?
Thursday, September 20, 2012
Wednesday, September 19, 2012
Tuesday, September 18, 2012
Monday, September 17, 2012
Sunday, September 16, 2012
Walmart guns
I was reminded today that the arrival of Walmart on 15-501 means that they likely will be selling some number of firearms, perhaps the same as are advertised today in their Sunday newspaper insert. How depressing a thought is that?
Saturday, September 15, 2012
Wednesday, September 12, 2012
Tuesday, September 11, 2012
Saturday, September 8, 2012
Friday, September 7, 2012
The Herald-Sun - UNC Health Care in lease negotiations for former Borders building
Apparently this has now happened. UNC Health Care seems to be at every turn in the road!
Wednesday, September 5, 2012
Hyde Park "corner" on the Chapel Hill buses?
The current dust-up over the advertising on Chapel Hill buses calling for an end to US assistance to Israel (or maybe just a significant reduction) is curious. Penny RICH, the departing Council member, brought up that she is Jewish and says she is uncomfortable with the advertising. First off, she should not participate in any votes on this matter given the lens through which she seems to be looking at this. Second, why not - as a compromise - keep the debate alive in this very public place (the bus) by setting aside a panel in every bus for this type of social/political advocacy advertising? That way, everyone is free to use it, but everyone would also know that it will be restricted to one place on each bus? While mentioning Penny RICH, Lee STORROW has reported said that we need to have representation on the Council from the Jewish community of Chapel Hill. No, we do not. We need to have as much diversity in the Council membership as possible, but no group is deserving of representation more than any other. I am an Irish citizen, as well as a citizen of the US - where is the Irish representative on the Council? Or the Hindu? Or the New York? Or the Trans Gender (not sure how that is written)?
Monday, September 3, 2012
Text Messaging and Driving - Texting Can Wait | AT&T
Chapel Hill, if the Town Council cares, should adopt something like this - no use of an electronic device - yes, it can wait. One really has to wonder why no one has pushed this.
Sunday, September 2, 2012
Car route map?
I'd love to see a map generated that would take an average weekday - surely, one can pick a day that would give something generally applicable as a result - and an average weekend day ---- plot in some graphically compelling way where cars go in the course of that day. In other words, a certain number of cars come from Chatham County and go up 15-501 to UNC; what number turn off on 54 and go to I-40? Where do cars leaving Pittsboro or Carrboro go in the course of time they area away during that day. A number of assumptions would have to be made - such as that cars leaving in the early morning likely are based at the point of departure, but that later in the day, they are returning. Anyway, a color-enabled map would be a fascinating thing to watch. Why do it? Because it would help us determine where people go and then try to sort through what it might take to get them to go to other places or not to go at all.
Saturday, September 1, 2012
In Bike-Friendly Copenhagen, Highways For Cyclists : NPR
We need this, but we also need high speed sidewalks/paths for pedestrians - routes that take us as directly as possible to where we can walk.
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