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The Bus Stops Here | Focus on San Antonio
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Focus on San Antonio. Are Accidents Waiting to Happen in Car-Infested Parking Lots. The Bus Stops Here. June 30, 2015. In an attempt, I presume, to convey the notion that VIA is, in fact, trying to reach out to new customers, Jeffrey Arndt, the president of VIA Metropolitan Transit, announced at a recent luncheon I attended the installation or upgrading of 1000 bus stops on VIA’s large system of 91 bus routes rolling throughout San Antonio and Bexar County. To which I say, why has it taken so long? So, M...
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Focus on San Antonio. The Bus Stops Here. June 30, 2015. In a day when retailers, manufacturers and other purveyors of goods or services are promoting their product to reveal new customers, it’s apparent to some that our VIA Metropolitan Transit is doing none of that, or, if anything, it is … Continue reading →. Are Accidents Waiting to Happen in Car-Infested Parking Lots. May 5, 2015. Creating Community, One Rocker at a Time. March 23, 2015. Let Us Wonder Where the Mildew’s Gone…. January 22, 2015.
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Citifying the Country? | Focus on San Antonio
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Focus on San Antonio. The Metros with the Most Economic Momentum Going Into 2014. Tagging, Art or Just Plain Neglect →. January 22, 2014. On this country road, especially now when Borgfeld is being dug up, widening to four lanes. Ironically, the U.S. Energy Information Administration recently released a primer on the cost of burying power lines. What’s striking is how wildly the costs for underground lines can differ, depending on the area, it states. In rural regions, it’s al...So, let’s urge our city g...
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Old, Repurposed and New | Focus on San Antonio
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Focus on San Antonio. Creating the Basics for Downtown’s Neighborhoods →. Old, Repurposed and New. November 19, 2012. Downtown, the original core of San Antonio stands to gain immeasurably from this new re-creative energy with an understanding that construction need not be only new, but old, repurposed and new. This entry was posted in Uncategorized. Creating the Basics for Downtown’s Neighborhoods →. Old, Repurposed and New. November 21, 2012 at 8:35 am. What about the original Rudy’s on I-10? Jared on ...
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A Re-gentrified Center for the Performing Arts | Focus on San Antonio
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Focus on San Antonio. Tagging, Art or Just Plain Neglect. It’s Time the City’s Arts and Culture Gained a Measure of Respect →. A Re-gentrified Center for the Performing Arts. September 12, 2014. The new $203 million Tobin, in the vision and build stage for the last three years, was aware of the lead role it played in the evening’s festivities and, acoustically and aesthetically, performed beautifully, accompanying the opera’s sopranos, whose voices rang out clearly to the upper reaches of the balcony lev...
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Are Accidents Waiting to Happen in Car-Infested Parking Lots | Focus on San Antonio
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Focus on San Antonio. Creating Community, One Rocker at a Time. The Bus Stops Here →. Are Accidents Waiting to Happen in Car-Infested Parking Lots. May 5, 2015. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration ( www.nhtsa.gov. In 2012, 4,743 pedestrians were killed in traffic accidents in the United States, just shy of 400 per month, and another 76,000 pedestrians were injured, averaging one crash related pedestrian death every 2 hours and an injury every 7 minutes. Who are most at risk?
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March | 2015 | Focus on San Antonio
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Focus on San Antonio. Monthly Archives: March 2015. Creating Community, One Rocker at a Time. March 23, 2015. Lately, I’ve been reflecting back on a painting I drew in my head some 3 years ago when I helped a couple find a house outside Loop 1604, they knowing all along they’d settle in the same subdivision, if … Continue reading →. The Bus Stops Here. Are Accidents Waiting to Happen in Car-Infested Parking Lots. Creating Community, One Rocker at a Time. Let Us Wonder Where the Mildew’s Gone….
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It’s Time the City’s Arts & Culture Gained a Measure of Respect | Focus on San Antonio
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Focus on San Antonio. A Re-gentrified Center for the Performing Arts. Homeowner Associations or Not, the Choice May Come Down to the House You Love →. It’s Time the City’s Arts and Culture Gained a Measure of Respect. November 14, 2014. The answer is, apparently not. I say that, because as the Express-News has evolved over the last five or so years, new sections have been introduced to readers, including for religion (Faith), for auto sales (Drive) and for food (Taste), a much ballyhooed section which, a...
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Creating the Basics for Downtown’s Neighborhoods | Focus on San Antonio
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Focus on San Antonio. Old, Repurposed and New. Narrower Streets, and Sidewalks. Isn’t It Time? Creating the Basics for Downtown’s Neighborhoods. December 2, 2012. On this point specifically, lately I’ve been reading Henry Cisneros’ edited book, Independent for Life, Homes and Neighborhoods for an Aging America,. Arguably about senior citizens, and featuring Mr. Cisneros’ mother, who has spent the better part of Henry’s life in the same house ,. Is there street connectivity? Old, Repurposed and New. Creat...
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Focus on San Antonio | by SimplyFineSAHomes.com | Page 2
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Focus on San Antonio. Newer posts →. Tagging, Art or Just Plain Neglect. August 11, 2014. An article in the Express-News about two young men who were apprehended by the police, accused of tagging the Josephine St. Theatre’s façade, reminded me, ironically, that there is more than one way to deface an edifice. And owners of buildings are sometimes as much at fault as taggers, the neglect they exhibit on their buildings oftentimes having the same effect as graffiti. January 22, 2014. This part of the city ...