Winter is such a hard time for sidewalks. Between the snow, grit, excessive salt, and incessant freeze/thaw cycles, it’s amazing they survive as long as they do.
What’s really hard, however, is that so many people who have them clearly do not observe their civic obligation to maintain the sidewalk in front of their homes. Simple [...]
Ever since I moved to Manhattan, I’ve been surprised that there’s a large and busy park, namely CiCo, bordered by two streets with heavy traffic (Wreath and Kimball), with very little in the way of traffic control. Few stop signs, poorly maintained zebra stripes with rather easy to ignore signage, etc. Both my wife and [...]
Something that one sees on any college campus, but particularly here at K-State, are a lot of students riding bikes who clearly have never even once thought about nor been taught how to ride a bike safely around other people or in traffic. It’s pretty simple: ride and behave like a slow car. This means [...]
Who are streetlight’s friends? Their names are control loops and cameras. Let me introduce them.
Both devices are designed to make lights change at intersections where most of the traffic is one street so the light only needs to change on demand, rather than by timer. An example of such an intersection in Manhattan would be [...]
Now this is one of those simple little things that just begs for quick resolution. Last year, the city and university undertook repairs and widening on Denison from Anderson to Kimball. As part of that, they put in a number of new lights and repaved the intersections. When the work was all done, someone–the contractor, [...]
Sidewalks are important. Why? A neighborhood without sidewalks–whether commercial or residential–might as well have signs posted that read “those not in cars can leave now.” Last I observed, people in cars are incapable of having conversations with each other (other than via cell phone, which doesn’t count and achieves the opposite of goodwill and [...]
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