We encountered a pretty cool web site this morning, and promptly searched for a local license plate.

Here’s the link.  We haven’t explored the “Wink” category yet, so be careful.

“This is the eighth work zone accident in two months in the eleven-county highway district.”

The brief article is here.

UPDATE:  “Transportation officials say the man was flagging traffic on Kentucky 91 when a car hit him.”

Article and video are here.

Pa. asking feds to allow ads on highway signs

“In the six years I’ve been with the transportation cabinet, we might have in each district one incident per year,” Todd said.

“Since April 1, we’ve had ten in District 2.”

Article and video here.

Most may not know it, but PSS is located in Cleveland, Ohio. 

Following is a letter from the owner of the Cleveland Cavaliers, Dan Gilbert, posted on their web site last night, in response to The Betrayal.  You may have heard about it already. 

We applaud Mr. Gilbert’s blunt assessment of how we were treated, and of course support and cheer his goal of beating James to a championship.  

Gilbert sums up the mood and attitude of the city rather well, we think.  The mood at PSS today, with a couple of exceptions, matches our fellow Clevelanders’, and echoes the letter.

We’re seeing more and more “pedestrian safety” web blogs, in which citizens in a community can alert their neighbors to dangerous sidewalk conditions.

Usually it is one person, a champion, that launches the effort in a community.  Like William Smith, a legally blind, stay-at-home Dad, who lives in Silver Springs, MD. 

Smith started a blog because, quoting from a profile in the Washington Post, ”…he seeks to raise awareness because the problems he finds aren’t mere inconveniences. They are roadblocks to something much more precious: his independence.”

Visit Smith’s blog here.   Read the WaPo article here.

This is a very good article about roundabouts, as being used in Brighton, MI and being considered in Fenton, MI.  The author concludes with the benefits of roundabouts, courtesy of FHWA.

From WFMJ TV, Youngstown, OH:

http://www.wfmj.com/Global/story.asp?S=12803113

Associated Press – July 14, 2010 6:45 AM ET

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) – A construction worker has been killed by a hit & run driver on an Ohio highway.

Police say 25-year-old Eric Kirkbride of Zanesville was struck by a Chevy Suburban or Tahoe SUV around 1:30 a.m. Wednesday on Interstate 70 in Columbus. They say the driver kept heading west and has a busted headlight and mirror and fender damage.

Kirkbride was pronounced dead at the scene.

Columbus police say work had been going on in the area at the time.

Interstate 70 has been closed west of Route 33 through the morning rush hour during the police investigation.

Mission is 47 miles east of Vancouver, BC. But, as with most of our posts, this is a universal story.

Noteworthy is the TTC contractor’s response to the police department’s opinion on cause.

Read the article here.