Friday News Digest (Crowd Sourced)
Friday, January 27, 2012 | Charles Marohn It is 2AM and I'm just getting home from a Curbside Chat in Mason City, IA. Lots to talk about with that -- all good -- but for now the sleep fairy is calling me. This is especially true since Daughter #2 is now the ill one and in a few hours she is going to need one-on-one daddy time and my full, awake attention.
So here's the deal....below is the sausage making of the Friday News Digest. When someone mails me an article during the week or when I come across something that interests me, I paste it into this post. Thursday night into Friday morning, I go through and provide excerpts and my own comments.
This Friday, I'm going to turn that over to you. Pick an article, give me a quote and a Strong Towns take. When I get time to put the News Digest together sometime on Friday, if your stuff is good, I'll put it in the post and give you the attribution. We'll call this crowd sourcing the news. And if you have a news article out there that I've not included, do the same thing but also provide the link.
I'm excited to hear what ideas you might have.
- http://www.startribune.com/local/minneapolis/137828733.html
- http://vimeo.com/35259036
- http://www.minnpost.com/cityscape/2012/01/12/34273/congress_tells_americans_commute_by_car_not_transit#.Tw75_sFq_UU.email
- http://www.citypages.com/microsites/food-truck-map/
- http://www.duluthnewstribune.com/event/article/id/220096/
- http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204720204577130710627851528.html
- http://www.businessinsider.com/video-irish-journalist-leaves-ecb-official-speechless-2012-1
- http://scienceblogs.com/casaubonsbook/2012/01/the_wealth_and_poverty_of_nati.php
- http://capntransit.blogspot.com/2012/01/navy-road-and-projects.html
- http://hiddencityphila.org/2012/01/wissahickon-urban-suburban-midcentury-victorian/
- http://www.planetizen.com/node/53922
You can email to me at marohn@strongtowns.org or just use the comments section.
Reader Comments (5)
In the western suburbs of Minneapolis there is a huge push to change old rail lines into bike and walking paths. Its clear people and the communities are loving them (for the most part) but it's becoming clear there are some struggles with these connections too. It's been real easy for them to build these out west but making the connections. North and South is clearly tricky, as there are fewer, if no old rail lines to take advantage of. There are mixed up ways to make these connections, including using less frequently used county roads trail users would need to share with cars, or building a trail right next to a busy county road.
The issue I have with what is being discussed in the linked article, is that they are making this connection in my area outside of the local towns of Mound and ST Boni. To build something like this should be connecting communities, as much as trails.
http://www.waconiapatriot.com/articles/2012/01/26/the_laker/news/news02.txt
Oh, I forgot to end...
... because that's how we make a Strong Town. ;)
Re: Skyways
For those interested, there has been a pretty good discussion on the topic on Streets.MN (sorry, a little bit of a shameless self-promotion):
- http://www.streets.mn/2012/01/06/is-it-time-to-remove-those-pesky-skyways/
- http://www.streets.mn/2012/01/09/in_defense_of_skyways/
- http://www.streets.mn/2012/01/12/skyways-arent-about-the-weather/
- http://www.streets.mn/2012/01/24/those-skyways-wont-go-down-without-a-fight/
Four articles on skylines with slightly different prospective! It's a lot to read, but well worth it.
I look at Detroit sometimes, and wonder if it's the miner's canary in our economy.
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/UrbanGhostsMedia/~3/PA8qz8F5MuA/
Here is the link to the Chicago Transit Authority 2012 historical calendar. The month of July has a picture that should interest Strong Towns citizens. The last page of the calendar has additional historical notes.
http://www.transitchicago.com/assets/1/miscellaneous_documents/2012_CTA_Historical_Calendar.pdf