Note: BB wrote yesterday that our next post would be one offering solutions on the currently problematic plans to “improve” the intersection of Coors Blvd. & Blake Rd. S.W., and its immediate roadway environs. We’ll get to that one, using today’s post as a bit of a pedagogical springboard. Apologies for the misdirection, but check this… Read More Build Yourself a Mother of a Road: Central at Tulane
When does a highway become a street? When does a thoroughfare to somewhere else become a place to “shop-and-stroll”? Questions such as these might not seem germane when talking about the project to improve the Coors & Blake intersection and roadway immediately adjacent, and putting the term “shop-and-stroll” within the same metaphorical area code patently ludicrous.… Read More Better Solutions at Coors & Blake, Part I: What is Currently Planned
As mentioned previously here, a public meeting was held last night to discuss the upcoming project to improve the intersection of Coors Blvd. and Blake Rd. in the South Valley, and its immediate environs. Despite living only about a mile, as the crow flies, from the intersection, it’s a place I don’t come across much,… Read More Front Line Report: Trying to ride a bicycle at Blake and Coors
(See Note Below) I think that I shall never see bike infrastructure lovely as thee. I’ve seen the worst drivers of my generation careening madly, nakedly hysterical. One day *DMD finally knew what it had to do, and began, all motorists pausing, while a bike can cross all distance breathes to finally dream of safer… Read More Ode to the Bike Boulevard Diverter at Silver and Girard
Most of the road improvement action is happening in other parts of town, so it’s reassuring and exciting to see work being planned down here in the South Valley. Coors Blvd., that bane of multi-modal travel down in my neck of the woods, is scheduled for improvement, at least at the corner of Blake/Coors: This… Read More Fixing Blake and Coors: Public Meeting
Better Burque has written a large number of posts this year on the issue of pedestrian safety and deaths. If you’re interested in the subject, but missed these earlier posts, you can save a great deal of time by instead reading this simply stellar “rumination” on the subject by a team of Taproot Edmonton writers led… Read More Summing Up Pedestrian Deaths Much Better Than Better Burque
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