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Walking from Homewood to Mountain Brook Village: cowpath or bridge or ?
Walking from Homewood to Mountain Brook Village: cowpath or bridge or ?
Homewood and Mountain Brook are connected at the hip. The cities have the most vibrate, stable mixed-use neighborhoods in the region. I’m…
Christopher Winslett
Mar 22, 2017
Where our terrain brings us together, our roads are separating us.
Where our terrain brings us together, our roads are separating us.
To the north of Homewood is Red Mountain and to the south is Shades Mountain. Sandwiched between is Shades Valley. This terrain allows…
Christopher Winslett
Mar 16, 2017
Let’s build a Homewood Bicycle Boulevard
Let’s build a Homewood Bicycle Boulevard
My experience of a bicycle boulevard is with the Bryant Bicycle Boulevard in Palo Alto. I would ride with my kids who were 7 and 5 at the…
Christopher Winslett
Mar 15, 2017
Raise cost of moving traffic citations!
Raise cost of moving traffic citations!
Ironically, you can get a bigger ticket in Homewood, AL for driving on a sand dune ($265) than for running a stop sign ($185)…
Christopher Winslett
Mar 2, 2017
Homewood will stop prioritizing for cars, and what we are learning from the Dutch
Christopher Winslett
Feb 16, 2017
A simple, minimal cost way to reduce road speeds: post signs & enforce stopping before right on red
A simple, minimal cost way to reduce road speeds: post signs & enforce stopping before right on red
Did you know that state traffic laws require drivers to come to a full stop before turning right on red? The Alabama Traffic Code is here…
Christopher Winslett
Feb 15, 2017
Real Homewood Neighborhood Conversation on Dead-ending Roads
Real Homewood Neighborhood Conversation on Dead-ending Roads
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Christopher Winslett
Feb 7, 2017
Speeding up Oxmoor with roundabouts, while adding a bike lane
Speeding up Oxmoor with roundabouts, while adding a bike lane
In the previous post, I’d said we need to make neighborhood roads slower and intra-city roads faster. I used Oxmoor as an example street…
Christopher Winslett
Jan 31, 2017
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