Bicycling
We have the weather. We have the terrain. Give us the bike lanes. It is time to make Charleston the bicycling capital of the Southeast.
New post here, come and get it
Hey ya’ll. Long time no hablar. I hope everyone out there in Chuck town is hanging in and keeping it loose. Fall is here, the stock market is on the rise(well except for yesterday), and life is good.
Well I’m just dropping a line in here, gonna try to step up the surveil, and report back to youz troops in the fashion reg’lar.
Of course I don’t get out much, but I’ll do my bestest.
Rocket
Driving the Speed Limit
A public service campaign, coupled with increased rates for speeding tickets and strict enforcement of the speed limit would do a whole host of good for our city and county.
One, through better gas mileage achieved, would reduce the amount of money that we spend on gasoline, money that goes directly out of our county since we import every drop that we use. This results in more wealth staying in the local economy.
Two, it would result in lower accident rates, lower hospitalization rates, and lower medical bills.
Three, in time, a lower accident rate would result in lower automobile insurance rates for the lowcountry.
Four, a temporary boost in city and county revenues as people adjust to the new program.
Five, a decline in airborne pollution from combustion engine exhaust as people learn to drive more efficiently.
Six, a collective feeling that we are doing something as a community to better the quality of life for ourselves.
Such a plan should be accompanied by a reevaluation of posted speed limits throughout the city and county, bringing them in line with what the actual safe driving speed is along our various highways and city and county roadways.
MUSC FURLOUGHS
MUSC handles budget shortfall with furloughs.
I would like to suggest that MUSC, as well as University Medical Associates, stop using out of state companies to process their billing.
After recently using the emergency room facilities, after an unfortunate interlude with an automobile while on my bicycle, I received bills from each of them, MUSC wanting me to send a check to a p.o. box in Atlanta and UMA asking me to send a check to a p.o. box in Raleigh. I paid both bills locally.
Surely they realize they are sending jobs out of state at a time when unemployment is high. They are also reducing our state’s tax base with these practices.
Carry on.
Delfin Group Expansion
The impending expansion to an industrial lubricants facility in North Charleston is certainly a good thing for our local economy. I would like to suggest, in light of our already extremely poor air quality, that local government work closely with DHEC to insure that the best possible air quality control standards are initiated at the plant.
Concord Park
The recent article in the Post & Courier regarding the delay of the pending sale of land for development surrounding Concord park brings up the possiblility of the city leasing the land for development, instead of selling it, no?
This way we still get the development but we also still own the land. Hmmm.
Bicycling Chucktown
OMG, could we live in a less bicycle friendly city? With our temperate climate and virtually flat geography, we should be doing everything we can to make ourselves into the preeminent bicycling city in the Southeast.
Local movie houses
I am sick and tired of having to complain every single time I go to the movies in our town. Either the sound level is not correct or the projector bulb is too dim or the projection is not aligned with the screen or the focus is off. I can’t see a picture anywhere where the registration is correct(causing a slight shake in the image).
I’m asking local movie reviewers to please include a review of the venue they saw the picture in to help raise the overall standards of movie projection in our city.
At this point I refuse to see pictures at the Citadel Mall AMC because the quality is so bad and the management does not seem to care.
