Could neighbors park their cars in the street some of the time? Maybe one on each side in a couple of spots to make the driving area more narrow? Or even just put out some orange cones 6' from the curb? There were some out for a tree removal on my street and cars seemed to slow down.

I haven't seen the SK Dollar General, but when we had Ed McMahon come speak in 2023 about the economic value of keeping RI special as a place, he talked about chain store design right at the end of his talk, around minute 42: youtu.be/lxkN9biMwb4?...

I have a copy of the UMassD study summarized in the magazine linked here if anyone is interested. donahue.umass.edu/documents/MB...

In 2019ish I remember a lot of discussion about economic cooperation among "SouthCoastal New England," because on paper we have a lot of shared industries and demographics. But it seems like our lived experience is less regional now than it was in the past, despite the wind industry as a connector.

Research backs this up!
Mom was wrong: You should talk to strangers search.app/tZxAFKhFavoF...

In all seriousness, I think we do have too many roads!

I so want to honor my kids' requests to bike and walk independently beyond our immediate neighborhood, but I can't - the built environment is not safe and the drivers aren't accustomed to having pedestrians around. All it would take is one driver to not notice them and they could be dead.

www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...