At tomorrow's Board of Works meeting, New Albany will likely take a step toward re-orienting its traffic grid. The Board will consider the Mayor's proposal to hire Jeff Speck as the studier-in-charge of a closer look at our streets. That's a very good portent of better days for downtown.
Although I've been opposed to spending money on a traffic study, because I think the answer such a study would reveal is self-evident. And, it seems, Mr. Speck has been opposed to such studies as well, if one can deduce that an opinion, "traffic studies are bullshit", (Page 81, Walkable City, Jeff Speck, Copyright 2012, Farrar, Straus and Giroux) translates to at least a modicum of disapproval of such an exercise. I am most heartily on board with this turn of events, since at least we know where this study is likely to lead us. Which of course begs another question, but who's asking? And, why stand in the way of something positive?
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