How to help secure a few hundred million bucks for multi-modal transportation
Here’s some transit-related news for those of you who want more bike lanes, buses, and sidewalks: Hundreds of millions of dollars are potentially on the table for multi-modal transportation, but sadly...
View ArticleStep 2 It
I enjoy fun activities. I’m guessing you do too. Yes, there are those who enjoy chewing tinfoil, receiving root canals, and The Family Circus cartoon strip … but, by and large, ScrooHoo readers lean...
View ArticleToy Trains
Last month Republican New Jersey Governor Chris Christie cancelled what was the largest public works project in America. Dubbed Access to the Region’s Core (or ARC), the project was to build a new...
View ArticleSecurity is everyone’s responsibility…
Your security apparatus at work: These events took place roughly between 5:30 and 6:30 AM, November 13th in Terminal 2 of the San Diego International Airport. I’m writing this approximately 2 1/2 hours...
View ArticlePark Slope 50 Years Later
My sister just sent this New York Times link reminding me that it was fifty years ago today that our uncle died in what was at the time the largest air disaster in history. Wikipedia reports it this...
View ArticleNext Bus Stop For Asheville Transit: Change Avenue
After two years of public comment, City Council leadership, and preparation; the Asheville Transit System (ATS) is about to roll out the first wave of reforms called for by the Transit Master Plan...
View ArticleWho Needs A Transit Master Plan?
This is the second post in a series about Asheville’s Transit Master Plan. To readers who are familiar with how local public policy works this post’s subject might seem a bit basic. “Of course you...
View ArticleMountain Xpress cover story about ATS (Soon to be ART)
I’m still working on the next post about Asheville Transit. In the meantime, I _highly_ recommend this week’s MountainXpress cover-story about Asheville Transit: The art of the wheel Jake Frankel does...
View ArticleTransporation-themed candidate fair. Oh look: A LLAMA!!!
The white llama on the left is Phil “Llama of multi-modal goodness.” He’s the patron saint of Asheville’s sustainable transportation options.* You see, those of us who advocate for sustainable...
View ArticleRabbit Punch
Wow! That’s terrific bunny … Welcome news for North Carolina: Freightliner announces second shift, 1,100 new jobs STATESVILLE, N.C. — During a press conference with Gov. Bev Perdue today, Freightliner...
View ArticleNew Transit Routes – Learn More
Via the email machine: Beginning Monday, May 21, the city’s bus system, currently operating as Asheville Transit, will begin operating as ART (Asheville Redefines Transit). In addition to introducing a...
View ArticleStrive Not To Drive This Week
Beginning today and going through Friday, people across the city are choosing to drive less and try different ways of moving from Point A to Point B. Asheville Transit rolls out its new routes and...
View ArticleSunday Evening Music
[youtube width=”560″ height=”340″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmQq6yLe2ww[/youtube]
View ArticleMonday Readaround
Kudos to the doggedly determined Tom Burnet, who’s been pushing for an improvement to Beecham’s Curve for going on ten years. The weird 90-degree on Haywood Road has been a confunction for as long as...
View ArticleAffordable Housing
David Forbes has an interesting article in today’s Mountain Xpress regarding a proposed apartment building on Chestnut St. and the underlying issues at work in getting it approved. Many are aware that...
View ArticleAn America In Retreat?
Has America – and the American Dream itself – gone into retreat? Once the largest, most prosperous in the world, the American middle class is faltering, crumbling like our nation’s schools and bridges....
View ArticleStudy: More Auto-mobility Drives Lower Social Mobility
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZWOvHWLCiE[/youtube] Paul Krugman’s observations on the impact of urban sprawl reminded me of “Automania 2000,” the 1963 John Halas animated short the 1963 John...
View ArticleThom’s way or no highway
Besides his woman problem, North Carolina GOP Senate nominee Thom Tillis has a toll problem. And a base problem. Interstate 77 in Tillis’ district badly needs widening. But Thom and his ALEC buddies...
View ArticleLook! Up in the sky!
Commercial drones. Those GoPro-equipped gadgets for hobbyists, news crews, professional photographers, and drunk, off-duty, intelligence employees. Maybe even for Amazon package deliveries. (In your...
View ArticleThom’s Road Still Tholls For Thee, NC
Thom Tillis’ toll road deal on I-77 is still a headache for those he left behind when he went to Washington. From the Charlotte Observer: Should it stay or should it go now? If it goes there will be...
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