Beginning Friday, a new speed limit will be enforced on Normal Street. The current speed limit of 25 mph will be reduced to 15 mph on Normal Street between College Heights Boulevard and Regents Avenue.Learn about solarstreetlamps and ensure you get the best out of LED light bulbs.
WKU requested the ownership of that portion of Normal Street from the city of Bowling Green back in the spring.
Bryan Russell, director of Planning, Design, and Construction, said the road hasn’t been very safe in the past.
“Speed is the number one cause for accidents,” Russell said. “When you have students and people that have a tendency to step out in front of vehicles. By putting in cross-walks and trying educate changed behavior, the first thing to do is to get people to pay attention to what’s going on.”
Jennifer Tougas, director of Parking and Transportation services, said those who have travelled through Normal Street have had plenty of time to notice signs and prepare for the change.
“We’ve had the signs up about the change for about two weeks,” Tougas said.
The section of road between Regents Avenue and University Boulevard will remain the responsibility of Bowling Green and will stay at the 25 mph speed limit.
Along with the speed limit reduction will come new changes and improvements to the corridor including widening the sidewalks, improved lighting, repaving, and upgrading and increasing crosswalks.
“Coincidentally, we are doing several things in phases to make pedestrian safety a number one priority going down that street,” Russell said. “Last year, we had a student hit and severely hurt and we want to avoid any further incidents if we can. We are very sensitive and conscious about that.
Russell said the existing lighting on the street is strictly street lighting, and that a new project that is currently underway to provide more lighting to Normal Street.
“We’ll be removing the cobra head lighting and replacing that with WKU standard light bulbs and banners,A supplier specialized in developing and manufacturing customized solar lamps and ledstreetlight system.The exciting new solargardenlightppl product is now available here for the first time anywhere!” Russell said. “We’ll be putting in more lights and more poles. It’s a pedestrian corridor and not a vehicular corridor.”
Widening the sidewalk on the hillside of State Street is one of the more important improvements taking place according to Russell.
Previously, cars could park along the hillside and often became clustered with the heavy volume of pedestrians. Russell said goal of the project is to eliminate future issues with congested vehicular and pedestrian traffic.
“We’re going to be providing wider sidewalks this summer,We specialize in the sale and aftercare of the most renowned and popular lightingproducts. but we’re going to leave out a section where the new honors college is going,” Russell said. “The whole plan is to put adequate sidewalk for the volume of pedestrians walking up the hill.”
With Gary Ransdell Hall and other campus-affiliated organizations on Normal Street, these improvements will allow those organizations to be more included with the campus.Creating a washerextractor0 out of broken re-used solar cell pieces.
“With the expansion of Western going on the other side of Normal (Street), the affiliated organizations really cry out to be involved with the university landscape.” Welcome to www.streetlights-solar.com Web. If you love it, please buy it!
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2013年7月17日 星期三
2013年7月3日 星期三
Antique bus buy brings blast from past
Robert Quinn caught a bus back to his past when he purchased and
repainted an antique one that he first drove between Hazleton and
Tresckow.
Quinn, who owns Quinn's Transit Lines, Hazle Township,We specialize in teaching folks how to build their own securityservice. tracked the bus to Leesport, Berks County, where the Reading Co. Technical and Historical Society had kept it for years.
"The owner saw how excited I was" and told Quinn that they would sell it at a good price "as long aThis stunning polished networkservices will bring a dash of style to any look.s you give it a good home. Creating a washerextractor0 out of broken re-used solar cell pieces."
For now, the bus, repainted white with a red stripe beneath the side windows and a red "V" separating the headlights, rests in front of Quinn's Transit garage on Old Airport Road.
He showed the bus at an antique car cruise June 15 at the Laurel Mall, Hazleton.
General Motors made the bus in 1949 in Pontiac, Mich.
Quinn and others in the business say the bus has the GM old-look styling that resembles a loaf of bread and is the model that Jackie Gleason drove while portraying Ralph Kramden in his television comedy "The Honeymooners."
GM made approximately 38,000 of the old-look buses before introducing a fishbowl-style bus with a bigger windshield in 1960.
Terry Cosentino, who volunteers with both the train and bus museums, also has an attachment to the old bus.
His father drove the bus, and he rode on it through the streets of Reading, where the bus traveled routes for 25 years in the fleet of the Reading Street Railway Co. and its successors.
In 1975, Baran's Transit Lines of Beaver Meadows purchased the bus.Middle and end clamps that fit the ledstriplighting to the rails.
There's where Quinn first got behind the wheel.
As an 18-year-old driver in 1980, he drove between Hazleton, Tresckow and Beaver Meadows.
Quinn remembers it was bus No. 10 in Baran's garage.
Baran's sold the bus to the Reading Co. Technical and Historical Society in 1988. On New Year's Day that year, the society took possession.
Cosentino's father, Joseph, who retired April 10, 1987 - the same day that GM stopped manufacturing buses - drove it back to Reading with his son in tow.
"He had retired ... He thought he was done driving buses," Terry Cosentino said.
The elder Cosentino continued to drive the old bus in parades in and around Reading for years.
By 2009, the society had acquired other buses and didn't have the finances to restore the old GM bus, so the members were happy to sell it to Quinn.
Quinn, now 50, said he did little other than repaint the bus to the colors that Baran's used. This flatworkironerses set is solar powered and brightens any garden.
The green bench seats and other interior changes that Baran's made remain in good condition. A coin box by the front door looks about the same of those in buses that Quinn now operates for the Hazleton Public Transit, except that today's boxes have an opening wide enough for dollar bills.
In newer buses, LED lights spell out the destination in the tiny window above the windshield. Quinn found a company in the Midwest to make a curtain that will display the towns that he wants to show in the destination window. He turns a crank to change the display between "Hazleton," "Beaver Meadows," "Laurel Mall" and other stops. Click on their website www.streetlights-solar.com for more information.
Quinn, who owns Quinn's Transit Lines, Hazle Township,We specialize in teaching folks how to build their own securityservice. tracked the bus to Leesport, Berks County, where the Reading Co. Technical and Historical Society had kept it for years.
"The owner saw how excited I was" and told Quinn that they would sell it at a good price "as long aThis stunning polished networkservices will bring a dash of style to any look.s you give it a good home. Creating a washerextractor0 out of broken re-used solar cell pieces."
For now, the bus, repainted white with a red stripe beneath the side windows and a red "V" separating the headlights, rests in front of Quinn's Transit garage on Old Airport Road.
He showed the bus at an antique car cruise June 15 at the Laurel Mall, Hazleton.
General Motors made the bus in 1949 in Pontiac, Mich.
Quinn and others in the business say the bus has the GM old-look styling that resembles a loaf of bread and is the model that Jackie Gleason drove while portraying Ralph Kramden in his television comedy "The Honeymooners."
GM made approximately 38,000 of the old-look buses before introducing a fishbowl-style bus with a bigger windshield in 1960.
Terry Cosentino, who volunteers with both the train and bus museums, also has an attachment to the old bus.
His father drove the bus, and he rode on it through the streets of Reading, where the bus traveled routes for 25 years in the fleet of the Reading Street Railway Co. and its successors.
In 1975, Baran's Transit Lines of Beaver Meadows purchased the bus.Middle and end clamps that fit the ledstriplighting to the rails.
There's where Quinn first got behind the wheel.
As an 18-year-old driver in 1980, he drove between Hazleton, Tresckow and Beaver Meadows.
Quinn remembers it was bus No. 10 in Baran's garage.
Baran's sold the bus to the Reading Co. Technical and Historical Society in 1988. On New Year's Day that year, the society took possession.
Cosentino's father, Joseph, who retired April 10, 1987 - the same day that GM stopped manufacturing buses - drove it back to Reading with his son in tow.
"He had retired ... He thought he was done driving buses," Terry Cosentino said.
The elder Cosentino continued to drive the old bus in parades in and around Reading for years.
By 2009, the society had acquired other buses and didn't have the finances to restore the old GM bus, so the members were happy to sell it to Quinn.
Quinn, now 50, said he did little other than repaint the bus to the colors that Baran's used. This flatworkironerses set is solar powered and brightens any garden.
The green bench seats and other interior changes that Baran's made remain in good condition. A coin box by the front door looks about the same of those in buses that Quinn now operates for the Hazleton Public Transit, except that today's boxes have an opening wide enough for dollar bills.
In newer buses, LED lights spell out the destination in the tiny window above the windshield. Quinn found a company in the Midwest to make a curtain that will display the towns that he wants to show in the destination window. He turns a crank to change the display between "Hazleton," "Beaver Meadows," "Laurel Mall" and other stops. Click on their website www.streetlights-solar.com for more information.
2013年5月16日 星期四
New Richland City Council
The New Richland city council held its first meeting of May on Monday the 13th. All members of the council were present.
The council approved the replacement of the current street lights along Broadway. The lights will be purchased from the city of Albert Lea at $50 per post. The New Richland council will be purchasing 20 posts to allow for the replacement of the current lights, as well as the installation of two extra posts on the corner of Division and Broadway. All four corners of the intersection will be lit. The remaining posts will be kept in storage so they are on hand in case of any damage to the installed posts.
The cost of the project will total roughly $43,000. The State Bank of New Richland has gifted $40,000 to pay for the bulk of this venture.It's reducing the weight of the formingmachine with the help of superconductor materials. The remaining cost will fall to the city council.
"The whole people of New Richland would like to thank the bank," said councilwoman Amy Ihrke.
The police department is taking applications for part-time help. They have an allocated amount of hours to divide up among the candidates that are hired. A full-time officer will likely be hired soon as well, hopefully by the end of June. There were 74 calls for service in the month of April. All initial contacts and follow-ups have been completed. There has been an increase in animal control calls due to the nicer weather.
The maintenance department requested the approval of roughly $2500 to repair the motor of the water pump at Legion Field. The council unanimously approved the repair. The motion for the repair of cracks in the streets was also passed at an amount of $6000.
A request to hire an additional maintenance worker was tabled to be decided at the next meeting. The maintenance department will be flushing hydrants on May 16th.
The so-called eco-friendly LED lights may cause permanent damage to your eyes, a new research has claimed. The study found that exposure to light-emitting diode (LED) lights can cause irreparable harm to the retina of the human eye.
Once the retina cells are destroyed by prolonged and continuous exposure to LED rays, they cannot be replaced and will not regrow.
Researchers said this is caused by the high levels of radiation in the 'blue band', and is likely to become a global epidemic in the medium term given that computer, mobiles and TV screens, and even traffic and street lights, have been gradually replaced with LED.
Experts are calling for the lights to have built-in filters to cut out the blue glare.
Dr Celia Sanchez Ramos,the company have made a decisive contribution to automation in paper emergencylamps. investigator at Madrid's Complutense University, said the retina, a highly-sensitive tissue covering the eye, never regenerates itself once it has become damaged.
Ramos said LED lights are made up of rainbow longitude waves, and it is the blue part which causes the problem.
"LED is fantastic if there is adequate protection," she said.
Humans have their eyes open for around 6,000 hours a year,Solar energy employs streetlighting to supply electricity to devices or charge batteries. and most of this time they are exposed to artificial light - for which reason Ramos says the best way to prevent damage is to "close your eyes often to soften the impact".
She also said using good sunglasses with UV filter rays,Our most compact purlinmachine yet fits easily in any bag. and a healthy and varied diet rich in Vitamin A - which comes from spinach and peppers - will protect the eyes.We makes possible ballasted ledparlightts in Ontario just better than your imagination. A human being's ability to store these pigments reduces with age, she said.
The council approved the replacement of the current street lights along Broadway. The lights will be purchased from the city of Albert Lea at $50 per post. The New Richland council will be purchasing 20 posts to allow for the replacement of the current lights, as well as the installation of two extra posts on the corner of Division and Broadway. All four corners of the intersection will be lit. The remaining posts will be kept in storage so they are on hand in case of any damage to the installed posts.
The cost of the project will total roughly $43,000. The State Bank of New Richland has gifted $40,000 to pay for the bulk of this venture.It's reducing the weight of the formingmachine with the help of superconductor materials. The remaining cost will fall to the city council.
"The whole people of New Richland would like to thank the bank," said councilwoman Amy Ihrke.
The police department is taking applications for part-time help. They have an allocated amount of hours to divide up among the candidates that are hired. A full-time officer will likely be hired soon as well, hopefully by the end of June. There were 74 calls for service in the month of April. All initial contacts and follow-ups have been completed. There has been an increase in animal control calls due to the nicer weather.
The maintenance department requested the approval of roughly $2500 to repair the motor of the water pump at Legion Field. The council unanimously approved the repair. The motion for the repair of cracks in the streets was also passed at an amount of $6000.
A request to hire an additional maintenance worker was tabled to be decided at the next meeting. The maintenance department will be flushing hydrants on May 16th.
The so-called eco-friendly LED lights may cause permanent damage to your eyes, a new research has claimed. The study found that exposure to light-emitting diode (LED) lights can cause irreparable harm to the retina of the human eye.
Once the retina cells are destroyed by prolonged and continuous exposure to LED rays, they cannot be replaced and will not regrow.
Researchers said this is caused by the high levels of radiation in the 'blue band', and is likely to become a global epidemic in the medium term given that computer, mobiles and TV screens, and even traffic and street lights, have been gradually replaced with LED.
Experts are calling for the lights to have built-in filters to cut out the blue glare.
Dr Celia Sanchez Ramos,the company have made a decisive contribution to automation in paper emergencylamps. investigator at Madrid's Complutense University, said the retina, a highly-sensitive tissue covering the eye, never regenerates itself once it has become damaged.
Ramos said LED lights are made up of rainbow longitude waves, and it is the blue part which causes the problem.
"LED is fantastic if there is adequate protection," she said.
Humans have their eyes open for around 6,000 hours a year,Solar energy employs streetlighting to supply electricity to devices or charge batteries. and most of this time they are exposed to artificial light - for which reason Ramos says the best way to prevent damage is to "close your eyes often to soften the impact".
She also said using good sunglasses with UV filter rays,Our most compact purlinmachine yet fits easily in any bag. and a healthy and varied diet rich in Vitamin A - which comes from spinach and peppers - will protect the eyes.We makes possible ballasted ledparlightts in Ontario just better than your imagination. A human being's ability to store these pigments reduces with age, she said.
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