Dayton City Commission unanimously passes Livable Streets Policy

From an article in the Dayton Daily News:

From now on, whenever a street is scheduled to be built, rebuilt, resurfaced or repaired in the city of Dayton, traffic engineers and planners must consider pedestrians, bicyclists and bus riders as well as cars in their designs.

Adoption of the policy, the first in the region, got top billing in this month’s National Complete Streets Coalition newsletter, released Wednesday, Feb. 17. It will also fulfill a critical requirement in the city’s first application — submitted today — for Bicycle Friendly Community status with the League of American Bicyclists.

Now if they could just get a handle on the almost-daily shootings.

Read the full article here.

Snowpacolypse 2010 Aftermath

We had three winter storms in ten days. This was taken after things thawed out, just a bit.

I have a funny feeling that I’m still going to be looking at that pile of snow in April.

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Installing a new operating system on my computer - ‘Innuendos 7′.

I don’t care for the way it uses a winky emoticon when it asks me to insert a boot disk.