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by Topher Payne
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March 01, 2013 00:00 |
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My husband Preppy was sick all last week. Our schedules do not allow for illness, so at the first sign of a sniffle the offending party is required to quarantine in the guest room until the threat of contagion has passed.
This is really hard on the dog. She’ll spend the entire night trotting back and forth between his bed and mine, a bone hanging out of her mouth like a cigar, whining in confusion regarding where her loyalties should lie. The sick person obviously needs her more. The well person won’t wake her up with the coughing and the sneezing, which is important considering her agenda requires her to sleep for 16 hours daily.
Maintaining separate bedrooms really throws our competing schedules into sharp relief. We can go four or five days at a time without seeing each other awake. If we’re on opposite sides of the house, I lose the comfort of at least seeing him sleeping. But one does what one can with what one has, and I know he’s close by, which is something.
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by Rebecca Serna
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February 22, 2013 12:51 |
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At the heart of Melissa Carter’s commentary, “Cars aren’t the problem with ‘Share the Road'” is a tired, culture war approach that pits drivers against cyclists as if we were different species. The outpouring of comments on her piece shows most of us - whether driving or biking - are beyond all that.
In the past, drivers in Atlanta viewed sharing the road much like Melissa does - I’m driving a faster, heavier vehicle, so get out of my way.
What Melissa and other old-school drivers fail to consider is that when I’m riding my bike somewhere, I'm not trying to get in drivers' way, any more than small cars are trying to delay tractor trailers on the highway. I'm just trying to get where I'm going - mostly work or my kids’ school - \safely and in a reasonable amount of time. When I was a newbie and tried courteously share the lane with cas, drivers routinely “buzzed” me, coming within inches at high speeds - a recipe we all recognize as poisonous. I learned to take the lane to protect my own skin.
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by Brent Buice
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February 22, 2013 12:45 |
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Melissa Carter’s op-ed on February 15th, “Cars aren’t the problem with ‘Share the Road,’” generated quite a stir throughout the state. Fans of the piece applauded her targeting of people on bikes, while those who ride bicycles (or support those who do) expressed outrage at many of her opinions.
I’d like to set the record straight and discuss the facts about bicycling in Georgia.
First off, Ms. Carter says she does not “believe in sharing the road.” With all due respect, it’s not a matter of belief. As in every state, bicycles are recognized as vehicles in Georgia. Sharing the road is a legal responsibility as well as a basic act of courtesy.
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by Alex Wan
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February 15, 2013 00:00 |
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At a recent public hearing, a speaker describing Cheshire Bridge Road as “the most wonderful street in Atlanta” drew chuckles from the audience. That the comment elicited laughs sadly captures the disappointment many hold in how the corridor falls far short of its real potential.
Over a decade ago, nearby residents, businesses, property owners and city planners undertook a long, collaborative public process to design a vision for the area. Their work resulted in the Cheshire Bridge Road Study adopted by the city of Atlanta in 1999.
Six years later, the zoning changes corresponding to that plan were enacted, creating two neighborhood commercial (NC) districts along the street, but in the eight years since 2005, no more meaningful progress has been made.
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by Matthew Cardinale
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February 15, 2013 00:00 |
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Cheshire Bridge Road: alluring, risque, diverse, authentic, vibrant, alive, and now... endangered because of people like Atlanta City Councilman Alex Wan, the openly gay official whose District 6 includes both Cheshire Bridge Road and Midtown.
Recently, we learned of a zoning effort to change the character of Cheshire Bridge by getting rid of restaurants, bars, clubs, and stores that were grandfathered in as part of a 2005 rezoning. Now Mr. Wan wants to go back and get rid of grandpa.
The legal aspects of this do not bode well for Wan nor for the neighborhoods he purportedly represents, as they have proposed an illegal “taking.”
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