Thoughts on the butler street bottleneck

The intersection of 40th and butler streets is almost always a nightmare; Choked with traffic and dangerous for pedestrians. The problem is clear. Eliminate the Wendy's and the get go. As if a bottle neck wasn't bad enough, this poor design begs the motorist to exit and re enter the bumper to bumper traffic from opposing corners. Lawrenceville needs a gas station, yes, but in this particular location? And the necessity of a fast food drive through is always debatable. This one is just so tremendously inefficient.

Kdka

So last week I received a Facebook message from a local news reporter, David Highfield, to be interviewed for a story about the city steps. Elated, we set up an interview for Tuesday evening at the place of my choosing. I picked German square in the south side slopes. It's isolated and a bit weird and the steps are plentiful as are the views.  Perfect in my opinion. But Sunday night I had a pretty rough bike accident resulting in a sprained wrist and bruised ribs. If anyone's ever bruised a rib you know how laborious breathing becomes. It was also 90 degrees the day of the interview and I obviously had to wear pants and a nice shirt to be on tv. This already is a perfect storm for sweat city but as part of the special, the lovely people with the cameras wanted like a million shots of me ascending and descending the steps. Wide shots, different angles, action shots, steady cam, some weird go pro shot from underneath. Don't get me wrong, I was absolutely thrilled to participate, I just think the circumstances were silly. You'll see this jag-a-muffin all glistening and out of breath on September 29th at 7:30 on kdka talking crazily about my weird obsession.

Loose Ends

Lately I have been transferring all of my data into Google map engines which is an app building program. 

This program works so much better than what I had been using before. It does everything! Correlating data from spreadsheets and all. You'll see below the many Tapping a green line in the active map brings up all the info on the particular set of steps.  One is even able to get directions.