Month: December 2012

Bicycle signals which assist both motorists and cyclists to get around more safely are appearing in many U.S. cities. Places like Austin, Denver, Minneapolis, San Francisco, Seattle and Washington are among 126 manicipalities that have installed the lights. It appears the earliest detected advantages of such lights are two. The first is to allow more time for a  bicycle rider to pass through an intersection before the light turns  red. The finer points of this process are not entirely clear from the written material available but the basic purpose seems clear. The second function appears to be to give cyclists a bit of a head start at a light to help them get out ahead of drivers who are turning right.  Again, you would like to see it in operation before trying it. Traffic specialists in jurisdictions using the signals say they are in a research period and expect that over time, the function of the bicycle lights will be written more fully into traffic codes.

The standby chicken and jazz place on Mt Pleasant known for decades as the Chick n Deli has changed names again. For a while there it was Peoples Chicken. Now new signage announces that the restaurant is called  SEVEN44  It’s an easy guess that this number is the address of the place and is well known to the timeless Chicken (Rooster?) who has been hanging out on the roof since the beginning of chicken time, which is measured in eggs, not hours  (Who writes this silly stuff?)

So here we are on lovely Sutherland Drive north of Parklea Drive where 399 has gone from a whole house (left) to half a house. No doubt we are well on the way to a larger residence with the northerly wall still where it was when the home was built so many years ago. It will be interesting to see where the parking is when the new wider place is finished.