Posts Tagged ‘pedestrians’
7 Classic Sidewalk Blunders
A collection of classic sidewalk blunders from Sid Burgess.
Update on Transit Corridors
Alright, I’m back from vacation in Alaska, and I have an update to add to my previous post on the proposed Transit Corridor Streets ordinance. First, if you haven’t read it, Christof wrote a very detailed explanation of what the ordinance does and doesn’t do. If you want to understand the nuts and bolts of this [...]
Like I said…
I thought this post on the Chron blogs was interesting, especially in light of my earlier post this week about cultural traffic calming. When talking about the experience of walking a few blocks from her parking area to City Hall, Tara had this to say: …I realized it is not the walk that bothers me, [...]
Discovery Green Marketplace
UPDATE: Tiffany Tyler added some helpful information in the comments below. Thanks Tiffany! – – – – – I mentioned my Saturday trip to Discovery Green earlier today, but I also had occasion to go back on Sunday afternoon. The park hosts a “Green Marketplace” every Sunday. While it isn’t the city’s largest farmer’s market [...]
Walkable Weather
Kuffner wrote a great little ditty today about how the weather affects Houston. Here’s what he had to say: Tory Gattis: “Houston has a pedestrian-hostile tropical climate five months of the year. While northern transit-based cities benefit from a personal warming technology – the coat – the only personal cooling technology that exists for southern [...]