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Agnes Revisited — Almost 50 Years Later

Guest post by Professor Andrew Stuhl, Bucknell University Department of Environmental Studies and Sciences For anyone interested in environment, history, theater, natural disasters, crisis, and/or community resilience -- check this out! Last Thursday evening over zoom our team put on a performance over zoom based on true stories about Tropical Storm Agnes (1972) and its legacies in Pennsylvania. President Nixon called Agnes the "most destructive natural disaster in American history." The event was recorded and you can watch it here. (The show starts at 10:25.) How This Project Came To Be I've been working on this project for over 2…

Alley Walk Through

A small group representing the Borough Traffic Committee, the Bull Run Safe, Clean and Green Committee and the North Ward Working Group met together in mid- December to do a walk through of North Ward alleys. It's possible you may have seen the article about the activity in the Standard Journal on December 17, "Light Options Pondered for North Ward Alleys." The idea of the walk through was to get a clearer sense of the relative levels of illumination in the different alleys, in order to put in context various reports from residents of some areas being particularly dark. In fact,…

American (Bike/Ped) Dream

Bicycle Infrastructure Best Practices Tour -- Minneapolis and St. Paul At the end of August 2019, Bicycle South Central PA sent a group of people to Minneapolis, MN for a Bicycle Infrastructure Best Practices Tour led by a representative from Quality Bicycle Parts (QBP). The goal of the tour was to provide a fast but deep dive into a regional culture in which bicycle and pedestrian planning and advocacy are second nature. It showed how a Complete Streets mindset can lead to the creation of a bicycle transportation network that is accessible and welcoming for a large portion of the…