From a post on ColumbusUnderground.com located here: Hello Undergrounders… I work for Central Community House, an innercity nonprofit community center that serves the near east side. (www.cchouse.org). I am working on creating an Urban Neighborhood Hop home/garden style tour as a fundraiser and am searching for generous homeowners who’d like to show off their urban [...]
Posts from ‘July, 2008’
Riding a Scooter in Columbus just got Easier
Last week, the leaders of the City of Columbus made me extremely proud to live here when they implemented the first of many new scooter (and motorcycle) parking facilities in and around downtown. Typically, when government decides to take action on fixing problems, it usually takes a very long time. But this scooter parking solution [...]
COTA considers articulated (bendy) buses
COTA has been on a roll in 2008 (pardon the pun). Ridership is growing every month. They partnered with google to make trip planning easier. They increased routes in May. And now they’re considering adding new bendy buses to their fleet. These longer buses serve a practical purpose, as they’re to be used on the [...]
Video from CMC Social Networking Forum
This video is the Columbus Metropolitan Club forum that I spoke at recently along with Tim Eby and Helen Blowers. Was a lot of fun and I’m looking forward to some of the other upcoming programming at the CMC that touches upon more “youthful” topics such as this.
Streetcar : So where are we now?
Andrew Hall wrote up a great piece on the status of the Columbus Streetcar proposal and posted it on CU tonight. Below is just a few snippets. Be sure to read the whole thing here. Streetcar : So where are we now? Assuming Council is happy with their little beatdown on the Mayor and goes [...]
The “Robert Weiler” Incident
It all began last Wednesday afternoon at the Columbus Athletic Club. The Columbus Metropolitan Club hosted a luncheon forum debate about the Downtown Streetcar Plan. There was a panel of professionals speaking both for and against the Streetcar, and while many things were said during the hour-long debate (which can be watched online here), one [...]
Main Street Bridge: Construction Update
Great construction photo that was emailed to me by Robert Metzger: www.robertmetzgerphoto.com Some good discussion on the new Main Street Bridge can be found here.
Alive People to Watch 2008
The Alive Alive People to Watch By Brian Lindamood July 17, 2008 If the young professional scene in Columbus has a mantra, it’s “attract and retain.” Mayor Michael Coleman, the Columbus Chamber and a slew of groups and agencies — both officially and unofficially — are working to show the world that this is a [...]
Apologies for the Outage
If you haven’t noticed, my blog has been out of commission for the past six days or so. The main Columbus Underground site was moved over to a new server, and my blog was left behind. I had to do a little bit of tweaking to keep it running, and instead of taking care of [...]