What kind of Birmingham resident are you? First of all, go and read 3choBoomer’s recent post. Yes, right now! (But hey, don’t forget to come…
Musings of a Bronxite Living in the South
What kind of Birmingham resident are you? First of all, go and read 3choBoomer’s recent post. Yes, right now! (But hey, don’t forget to come…
Update on the Cabana For all those interested, the signage proposal for the former Cabana Hotel building mentioned in this Monday post was approved by…
The Magic City is definitely buzzing with conversation. These conversations don’t just take place at Art on the Rocks, sitting at Lucy’s Coffee & Tea,…
It seems as though the My vision for Birmingham… post from March has been sought out frequently. I’m not sure if it’s because of mentioning…
The Ramble: What can we do about transit?
Published by Andre on July 27, 2006Darrell Howard, the principal transportation planner for the Regional Planning Commission of Greater Birmingham, was the keynote speaker at this morning’s ONB Monthly Breakfast. His presentation on the In-Town Transit Partnership Project was timely. A tractor trailer overturned this morning shutting down I-459, the main connector to the south between all of our major traffic arteries (I-20, I-59, U.S. 280 and U.S. 31). Despite the fact that a recent report says that we here in Birmingham have the 3rd highest amount of time spent commuting per capita in the nation and the fact that we average a 6-hour a day rush hour period, many of us got up and went to work this morning, some of us unable to avoid the gridlock. Many of us also never even had the thought of hopping on a bike or riding a bus enter our mind. It took our guest speaker more than an hour to do a trip that should take less than 20 minutes. So what are we to do? Or what are we willing to do to make it better?