Category: Streets Tool Box
It’s a common contention. We love our cars too much. We can hardly bear to be apart from them. We don’t want streets which prioritise pedestrians, or people who ride bicycles. We visit Europe and marvel at their mixed-use streets,…
It’s typical that anyone who says, “Hang on a minute”, about the proposed – although we all know it’s done and dusted – Red Bank Station Redevelopment will be branded as a “NIMBY“. First in line are the council’s trusty…
I heard a comment today that Red Bank’s streets are too crowded for bike lanes. Maybe they’re just too crowded for cars. Most of the town’s streets were installed before the onset of the Car Age. They were built for…
Isn’t it strange how some people are more outraged that someone – erm, me – has dared to criticise Red Bank’s municipal leadership rather than ask the question themselves about the council’s low, even non-existent, commitment to pedestrian and bicycling…
Maybe it’s just looking back with rose-tinted glasses, but I seem to recall that even until quite recently touristy images for Red Bank used to include a couple of beers, a shot of Riverview Park and few token bicycles, with…
Our cool little town of Red Bank has recently seen another addition to its ever more hazardous streetscape. The borough has installed a “parklet” on the busy junction of Monmouth and Broad. This “parklet” was spitballed at a “presentation” to…
