East Whittier is the secondary commercial street of the Near South. Think Oak St, but shorter with virtually no improvements.
February 7, 2010
February 6, 2010
This may very well be the roughest neighborhood in Columbus. I hope residents are able to take back their neighborhood block by block.
February 2, 2010
I just attended the public input meeting that COTA was hosting today for their service changes starting in May. Aside from the changes being made to certain routes is the fact that they are currently looking at removing under-utilized bus stops with the information they are gathering. When I asked a COTA if they are focusing on ridership vs. providing comprehensive service everywhere the answer was in fact the former. Once these under-performing stops get cut in the hopefully not too distant future I’m certain that the number of people using COTA will go up rather significantly even when compared to the more recent increase that has occurred. I was curious about current ridership numbers for their routes and they said they can e-mail it too me, but that it only has the average number, so the number of people riding the #2, for example, isn’t broken up between ridership so you wouldn’t be able to see the difference on N High at OSU vs. E Main and Hamilton. I’m still going to ask if they can get the number for one stop at a busy section of N High and one stop far east on E Main for the #2. The downside is that there weren’t more than 10 people that showed up.
Also worth mentioning is that I got a monthly bus pass for this month, so I’ll be using COTA quite a bit. Of course, I wasn’t expecting gorgeous 40 degree weather in the beginning of February, but in any case I can just bike then take the bus to places I normally wouldn’t bike.
January 30, 2010
What residents are doing in Ganther’s Place needs to be replicated in some other neighborhoods.
January 28, 2010
Pics for another South Side neighborhood added
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Vassor Village has now been covered.
January 18, 2010
Do we need a Columbus Neighborhoods Association?
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In our city we have many urban neighborhoods that are seeing disparate levels of revitalization, community activism, investment from the city, etc. Some neighborhood associations are well-known among residents outside of their neighborhood ( Italian Village Society) and are able to setup standards that residents and developers must meet. Or maybe they serve to get residents active in block watches and meetings (Highland West) , while some don’t even have a website (Southern Orchards Civic Association).
To ensure that our neighborhood associations are able to make the most of what they have to work with, would a Columbus Neighborhoods Association be a good way to maximize the impact of all neighborhood associations whether it be German Village or South Linden? If taken to a higher level where every city had its own such organization, they could all serve as a resource for others for what has worked or hasn’t worked and why.
Indianapolis has an few umbrella organization which serve as a common ground for all Indy neighborhoods. The Great Indy Neighborhoods Initiative (GINI) fills in this role and receives backing form the Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) and the Indianapolis Neighborhood Resource Center (INRC). So from what I gathered GINI has neighborhoods collaborate and come up with what they need to improve and the other two organizations provide them with the means to achieve those goals.
If you’re in a local neighborhood association I’d be interested (if you aren’t in one that’s OK, I’m still interested) to hear why this would be worth pursuing or not.
