Tag: Complete Streets
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,…
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…
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…
Some notes on Safer Roads by Dan Riordan for the up coming Monmouth Paths meeting… Taken from Just Another Red Bank Page on the Facebook. Some thoughts off the top of my head: Since this is a chance to talk…
It was really good to see that at least one Red Bank institution, Red Bank Green, is starting to take an interest in what’s going on in the town apart from just some developer’s nocturnal fantasy. This is my response…
