Life on the Streets: Roads in Red Bank were not built for cars

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…

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Life on the Streets: Social Media Outrage

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…

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Life on the Streets: Red Bank

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…

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Blueskies from now on…

I’m attempting to wean myself off Facebook, having totally dumped the TwiXter. There is still an option to post items to eLon’s moron machine, but I’m trying to change that. My day-to-day go-to is now Bluesky. It’s a far more…

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All Aboard?

Maybe just a small clue to understanding New Jersey Transit‘s desperation to impose a “transit village” on our cool little town. Passenger usage at the station has crashed since pre-COVID levels. The latest figures available show that the number of…

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Red Bank. Here’s the problem…

I have long been passionate about the evolution of safe and equitable communities wherever I live, actively contributing through education and civic engagement whenever possible. Upon rekindling this interest in the U.S., I recognized a significant challenge: the Planning and…

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