A reader asked where to begin in city government with complaints about lack enforcement of traffic laws protecting pedestrians as they cross city streets.
Little Rock's Broadway Bridge, which opened in 1923, was supposed to be a cutting edge design and last for 1,000 years. The state Highway Transportation Department proposes to replace it 910 years early, in 2013, with $45 million in bridge construction money.
The line is open. Finishing up:
* SOLAR POWER: An array of public officials cut a ribbon today on new solar panels at the L'Oreal cosmetics plant in North Little Rock that are said to be able to provide 20,000 kilowatt hours of electricty per year.
Metroplan today announced a bridge design competition in hopes of encouraging more community interest in producing a landmark design for a planned Broadway Bridge replacement.
Metroplan announces a press conference Friday morning to begin a push for a community process to encourage design ideas for the replacement Broadway Bridge.
I'm all for signature architectural works. But, as I wrote yesterday, I'm nowhere near ready for the three amigos — Mayors Stodola and Hays and County Judge Villines — to go to the sales tax (or property tax) well again to replace the Broadway Bridge with an artistic design that would cost a great deal more if it serves art as well as simple function.
Metroplan talks about a Broadway bridge traffic circle; Deltic is revealed (surprise!) as driving force behind more intensive development in Lake Maumelle watershed; dentist arrested in Polk County for kidnapping.
Recent discussions about federal money for a Broadway Bridge replacement and to support Arkansas interstate highway reconstruction come to mind in this article about questions of whether Republicans in Congress will stand in the way of the highway bill.