@ObbieZ @bloomington_in The people who are against the skywalk think conventioneers will never leave their bubble if they don’t have to. They want to avoid the skywalk to get people wandering around the downtown.
Research Software Engineer at Indiana University. Bicycling, trying to figure out how to advocate for bike infrastructure in the city, and reading a lot about cities.
@ObbieZ @bloomington_in The people who are against the skywalk think conventioneers will never leave their bubble if they don’t have to. They want to avoid the skywalk to get people wandering around the downtown.
@ajsadauskas @fuck_cars I can get to a gas station.
OK, maybe to a park if you don’t require it to have playground equipment 🙂
@brianrlawson To make progress we need to get rid of the corrupt, incompetent, hateful people in the state legislature. But then I go and look at the Indiana Democrats web page and see this, and I despair.
“We’re rebuilding Party infrastructure from the ground up so we can hit the ground running in the 2022 elections.”
@benlk @bloomington_in They’re just completing a study which will probably recommend traffic calming on that road. Whether that will actually happen is another question, but if it did I imagine they would also try to induce some demand for businesses there.