Comments on: Complete streets versus incomplete thinking.

By: Street Talk | LJUrban - Dream Big. Live Small. Do Good.

Street Talk | LJUrban - Dream Big. Live Small. Do Good. — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 23:14:13 +0000

[...] Uneasy Rhetoric sent me to complete streets. Aha. Yet another tool I can point to whenever I find myself driving far more than I want to outside the urban core. [...]

By: Uneasy Rhetoric

Uneasy Rhetoric — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 00:53:44 +0000

I rock!
(Insert little air guitar solo here).

By: maya

maya — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 00:46:35 +0000

My very walkable neighborhood in Seattle had a doggie treat bakery. I would have frequented it if I’d had a dog.

John, you should know that you are the #1 result on google for the search string “complete streets” + “caltrans.”

By: jason

jason — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 04:12:44 +0000

The Riverfront development project in Denver actually went so far as to open a small dog-oriented petshop as part of their mixed-use profile to serve the residents, 50% of whom they learned were dog owners.

“Condo forest”…nicely phrased.

By: Uneasy Rhetoric

Uneasy Rhetoric — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 03:55:56 +0000

Into language too much? That’s where the blog name comes from…

I don’t think your image is too far from the truth. Spend a little time in Portland, an eminently walkable city, and you’ll also see many, many dogs. Portlanders are almost Parisian in their love of the canine. Even in the condo forest known as the Pearl District.

By: jason

jason — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 01:20:51 +0000

great post. many thanks for the “complete streets” link. i like the phrase “walkable neighborhoods” and “walkable cities” (for some reason every time I say it, I think about lots of people walking lots of dogs) but they don’t always describe the full picture. comparing complete vs. incomplete seems to give a different angle with which to explore traffic routes. then again, maybe I’m just into language a bit too much for my own good.

By: Uneasy Rhetoric

Uneasy Rhetoric — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 03:08:34 +0000

I vaguely remember hearing about Morales — the complete streets idea has been around a long time, but it really is a local issue — statewide there’s too much about freeways.

By: Ursula

Ursula — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 01:24:26 +0000

I hate that onramp too–scary. They’re going to have to do a major overhaul to make it safer than it is.

As far as adding bike trails, public transport, etc., you may or may not know that during the previous gubernatorial “era” Caltrans had a director by the name of Jeff Morales who’d worked for Chicago. He was very much pro “alternative” modes of transport and required engineering designs that included those modes of transport (bike and ped paths, etc.). Of course, with the changing of the guard in the gov’s office, there was a change in direction at Caltrans. I do recall Tom McClintock saying something about Morales being a poor director because he wouldn’t build more freeways in So.Cal. To each his or her own, I guess.