What Has Your Neighborhood Done So Far?
One outstanding event has been the rebulding of the Stillwell Avenue train station. The new facility has solar panels installed over the entire skyward surface. I am not sure about the effect in actual numbers, but I know it is a great improvement.
One of the not so great things that has impacted this neighborhood is the growing population of jitney or dollar cabs- actually $2 cabs by now. The police are supposed to ticket them for running along the bus routes, but that doesn't happen. Of course everyone has made this a convenience and people from the neighborhood utilise the service. The influx of employment just adds to the problem. The fall out goes further- less people are walking or riding the bus to get to the subway, which in turn adds to the health issues that are on the rise- adult and childhood obesity, to name the most obvious and outstanding. Even the kids are in on this ride instead of walk thing.
One of the not so great things that has impacted this neighborhood is the growing population of jitney or dollar cabs- actually $2 cabs by now. The police are supposed to ticket them for running along the bus routes, but that doesn't happen. Of course everyone has made this a convenience and people from the neighborhood utilise the service. The influx of employment just adds to the problem. The fall out goes further- less people are walking or riding the bus to get to the subway, which in turn adds to the health issues that are on the rise- adult and childhood obesity, to name the most obvious and outstanding. Even the kids are in on this ride instead of walk thing.
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Permalink Reply by debrun on -
Our neighborhood has done little to nothing.
We have car pools, a scattering of solar, but that is about it.
I wish I had more land so I could buy a horse !!
LOL, could be a parking problem though....
I think we need a national solution and Pickens is one such plan. -
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Permalink Reply by Dana Monroe on -
I agree! In the mean time.......
The apartment complex I live in doesn't even have recycle bins for the trash we sort. There are large carting receptacles down at the end of the complex and of course they have become public trash cans.
With regards to those jitney cabs, they're suppose to get tickets for running along the same route as the Mass Transit system, but they don't. -
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