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Bath Street closed to pedestrians
Access via Bath Street has been closed.
Pedestrians in Stroud are advised that the Bath Street entrance to Five Valleys Shopping Centre is now closed. The closure of this entrance is necessary due to the ongoing developments of the medical centre and also to strengthen the security of the centre. Jessica Derham, Centre Manager at Five Valleys, said: “Unfortunately due to a number of shoplifting incidents we’ve had to review our…
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Mayor Durkan and SDOT are making at least 20 miles of the Stay Healthy Streets pilot permanent, and moving forward with a bold vision of enhanced bike infrastructure.
Mayor Jenny Durkan announced today that Seattle will make at least 20 miles of Stay Healthy Streets permanent.
She also directed SDOT to expand the program to include routes in more neighborhoods and accelerate the installation of new bike facilities such as Neighborhood Greenways and protected bike lanes, helping to give West Seattle residents more travel options during the West Seattle High-Rise Bridge closure.
The first expansion of Stay Healthy Streets starts tomorrow by adding 3 more miles in Rainier Valley from Mount Baker to Columbia City and Othello, and 1/3 mile along Beach Drive SW in Alki.
Where are the sidewalks?
I’m visiting Cayman and enjoying my time here, but I am struck by the lack of sidewalks in many places. (more…)
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It’s time for the annual Wells Fargo Golf Championship yet again, and despite the city trying to encourage people to walk and bike to the location of the tournament or to the buses all over south Charlotte that are shuttling people to the tournament (since there is no parking or driving allowed on the road where the golf club is located), CMPD is once again blocking sidewalks and crosswalks with their official and personal vehicles, and the shuttle buses are blocking bike lanes while they wait their turn to get loaded up with people. Just more mixed messages from the city of Charlotte. I spoke to one of the CMPD officers who claimed they parked where they were so they wouldn’t block traffic (apparently only motor traffic counts!), and wouldn’t park on the grass because of the precious sprinkler heads they might run over. The culture present in the city and the police department that puts pedestrians (and bicyclists) at the lowest priority needs to change!
Not everyone is driving there
Sometimes as a non-driver I get annoyed by small things. One those things is directions. So often I encounter directions to a location or event, whether it’s a business or a party or a doctor’s appointment, and the directions are written exclusively for drivers. There will be maybe even paragraphs describing how to drive to a location, coming from different directions, then all kinds of instructions about parking options and then how to get from the parking lot or deck into the building, but absolutely nothing about transit or just how to get in if you are walking.
For example, today my office is meeting over at one of Emory‘s hospitals. For a lunch followed by a tour around various different departments, meeting the CEO, etc.. It’s going to be very nice and I’m looking forward to it. We got an email from our admin assistant with all the information, and basically it contains a whole lot of information about exactly how to drive into the hospital and the parking deck and how people can get reimbursed for their parking and then how they can take a bridge directly into the hospital and how to get from there to our room. The directions don’t include any instructions for how to get to the meeting room if you were walking in the front door of the hospital. Now I actually know how to do this because I have been a patient at this hospital, but the oversight annoys me.
In this case it is it easy, to figure out how to find the room but there are a lot of cases where I seriously have to go onto Google Street View to figure out how I’m going to get into a building or I have to call someone and ask. Sometimes I get totally lost because I find out I’ve gone in the front of some building and everyone else is gone in the back because of course that is where the directions said to park. When I explain I’ve gone in the front, the host or business owner looks at me weird.
WalkBoston Comments on the GLX and the Community Path - March 15, 2016
March 15, 2016 Massachusetts Department of Transportation 10 Park Plaza, Room 4150 Boston, MA 02116 Attention: MassDOT Board of Directors MBTA Fiscal Management and Control Board GLX Interim Project Manager Jack Wright Assistant Secretary for Policy Coordination Katherine Fichter
RE: GLX and the Community Path
WalkBoston has worked for over 25 years to promote improvements to pedestrian facilities throughout the state and region. We strongly believe that the proposed Community Path adjacent to the Green Line Extension in Somerville and Medford is an essential element to the successful operation of the extension. The path through this corridor is an integral part of the project that will help it to prosper and serve its riders well, especially when the need is reinforced by the lack of parking at the stations. The Community Path is essential for the GLX to fully meet its potential in serving the residents of this corridor. It will function as the principal access route to and from the stations for walkers and cyclists, as it will be a safe and protected means of access between residences and the doors of the light rail vehicles. The same levels of access cannot be provided solely by relying on existing streets, which are frequently less direct for users. The safety of walkers is also improved by using routes that are not shared with vehicles. We urge consideration all possible ways to fund the path and include it an integral part of the construction of this extension. Joint construction is the most cost-effective approach to construction, as the transit project and the Community Path share a common right-of-way and many elements of infrastructure, Cutbacks in the GLX project should not include reducing the number or safety of available routes of access for transit patrons going to or from the stations. Thank you again for this opportunity to comment on this project. Sincerely.
Wendy Landman Executive Director ———————————————————————————————— Join WalkBoston’s Mailing List to keep up to date on advocacy issues. Like our work? Support WalkBoston - Donate Now! Connect with us on Twitter and Facebook
