Unintended road experiments — how kids cause traffic

On Tuesday evening around 6pm, the Governor of Alabama declared a state of emergency for the following day. The declaration was based on anticipated weather moving through the state which could cause tornadoes. Shortly after, the…

The Mostly Delightful Yet Somewhat Harrowing Walk from Homewood to Downtown

Around 3pm on Tuesday, January 28, 2014, I sat at my downtown Birmingham Innovation Depot office and talked to several co-workers who decided to stay the night at work. It was the Snowpocalypse and…

How drivers make route decisions…

A driver is really a financial analyst, instead of money, they are gambling time. A driver looks at the road ahead and estimates the duration of time to travel the distance of that road. If a driver knows an alternate route, then the driver will compare that time to the…

Solving Saulter — Survey Data

Last week, we asked the question: “What is the purpose of Saulter Road?”, and today, we are publishing the survey responses. Long story short, said two different ways:

• the proximity a person lives near or uses the road determines how the person…

Real Homewood Neighborhood Conversation on Dead-ending Roads

Backstory

On Nextdoor, for Hollywood, I picked my lowest-cost proposal for improving streets and pitched it to them. I wanted to know how my neighbors felt about changes. This is the thread…

Facebook folks defend right to break driving laws — did they even read the article?

Rebalancing Homewood’s Automobile - Retail - Pedestrian Relationship

How much of Homewood is dedicated to cars? How much is dedicated to people? If an anthropologist dropped to earth right now, they’d argue humans are built to feed the beast of the automobile.

Let’s build a Homewood Bicycle Boulevard

My experience of a bicycle boulevard is with the Bryant Bicycle Boulevard in Palo Alto…