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Downtown Sarasota - Ty Warner and Craig Hullinger
Nice new roundabout in beautiful downtown Sarasota.
Met with my friend Ty Warner today. We wandered around downtown Sarasota and admired recent civic improvements.
Ty grew up in Sarasota and is now the Director of the Northwest Indiana Regional Planning Commission. He and I worked together at the Will County (Illinois) Planning Department. It was good catching up and we enjoyed seeing the great improvements to downtown Sarasota.
Ty's father is a citizen planner and a strong advocate for roundabouts. Sarasota has constructed some very nice roundabouts and more are planned.
Nice coffee shops and restaurants - great streetscape.
Nice way finding signage downtown.
Two nice ponds in downtown.
A large number of interesting sculptures downtown.
Nice new urban building.
Ty at the Piano. There are a number of pianos scattered about downtown where anyone can play. A very nice touch.
Video of a gentleman playing:
http://youtu.be/iR_iH1Nif9I
Ty Warner playing:
http://youtu.be/8BZexFMtMwM
Prediction is Very Difficult
Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.
Niels Bohr
Danish physicist (1885 - 1962)
It is always safer to make predictions about things that you think will happen at a very long range, so you are safely out of the way before your prediction can be proved wrong.
Twenty year forecasts are dangerous.
And of course it is best to keep your predictions very general.
Danish physicist (1885 - 1962)
It is always safer to make predictions about things that you think will happen at a very long range, so you are safely out of the way before your prediction can be proved wrong.
Twenty year forecasts are dangerous.
And of course it is best to keep your predictions very general.
I predict it will get worse before it gets better.
THE PERFECT COMMUTE
Five U.S. metros (Buffalo, Portland, Sacramento, San Diego, and San Jose) opened light rail systems in the 1980s to great fanfare. The mode offered many of the benefits of subway systems for far less public money; San Diego's system, per mile, cost about one-seventh of Washington, D.C.'s Metrorail. Light rail cities like Portland became transportation models for the country, pointing toward a transit-friendly urban future.
Thirty years later, light rail remains the most appealing mode of new public transportation formany American cities. Billions of local, state, and federal dollars have been invested in 650 miles of new light rail lines in 16 regions, and today 144 miles of additional lines are under construction at a cost of more than $25 billion. Many more lines are planned. No region has invested in a new heavy rail subway system, on the other hand, since 1993.
Based on the decisions to build these projects, which were made by hundreds of local officials and often endorsed by residents through referenda, you might think that the experience building light rail in the 1980s had been unambiguously successful. Yet it doesn't take much digging to find that over the past thirty years, these initial five systems in themselves neither rescued the center cities of their respective regions nor resulted in higher transit use — the dual goals of those first-generation lines.
Tilting at Windmills
Tilting at windmills is a duty of a city planner.
An authentic Dutch Windmill functioned for many years in Tinley Park. It was located on Oak Park Avenue at 171st Street.
It was destroyed in 1911.
The Windmill could be rebuilt. The Windmill would recreate an important and iconic historic structure that would add an attraction to historic Tinley Park.
Windmills very similar in shape and size to the Tinley Park Windmill were built by the same builders, Bartel of Kankakee. The Mill in Peotone, IL is 3 blocks east of their historic downtown in a neighborhood.
The Fabyan Windmill in the Kane County Forest Preserves north of Aurora on Highway 27 east of the Fox River is another example. It was also built by the builders of the Tinley Park Windmill.
The City of Holland, Michigan developed a Windmill as a tourist attraction.
Possible Reconstruction of The Historic Windmill
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| Bartel Windmill in Tinley Park ca 189 |
An authentic Dutch Windmill functioned for many years in Tinley Park. It was located on Oak Park Avenue at 171st Street.
It was destroyed in 1911.
The Windmill could be rebuilt. The Windmill would recreate an important and iconic historic structure that would add an attraction to historic Tinley Park.
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| Peotone Windmill |
Windmills very similar in shape and size to the Tinley Park Windmill were built by the same builders, Bartel of Kankakee. The Mill in Peotone, IL is 3 blocks east of their historic downtown in a neighborhood.
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| Fabyan Windmill in Kane County |
The Fabyan Windmill in the Kane County Forest Preserves north of Aurora on Highway 27 east of the Fox River is another example. It was also built by the builders of the Tinley Park Windmill.
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| Windmill in Holland, Michigan |
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