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1. POSTED BY Wayne Robbins  |  December 27, 2009 @ 3:04 pm

   Yes Fran, it’s a good day to be outside – especially after watching the Giant game.
2. POSTED BY AVoiceInTheWilderness  |  December 27, 2009 @ 6:01 pm

   Where will those guys be able to park their bikes. The town has NOT made bike racks available downtown or at the parking structure for that matter.
3. POSTED BY monty  |  December 27, 2009 @ 7:35 pm

   Thanks Fran. You work is beautiful and always captures the essence of the story. Or just brings joy.
4. POSTED BY Opinionated  |  December 27, 2009 @ 11:45 pm

   You photographed people (not getting run down!) in one of the worst crosswalks in town!
5. POSTED BY walleroo  |  December 28, 2009 @ 12:28 pm

   The reason these people aren’t being run over my cars, opinion, is because they’ve got bicycles, which, because they contain a small amount of kryptonite in the frame, create an impervious force field that envelopes the cycler. Where have you been?
6. POSTED BY MellonBrush  |  December 28, 2009 @ 12:36 pm

   ‘Starbucks syndrome, protects this crosswalk. Everyone slows down as they entertain the notion of stopping for yet, another caffeine-laden treat.
7. POSTED BY mathilda  |  December 28, 2009 @ 1:53 pm

   The bicycle ordnance this town has put forth is good as it is, but it is only a start. Many other green behaviors also cry out for infrastructure, not the least of which is walking. Nothing could be greener, and yet our townfolk prefer cars. Why? Because the infrastructure to support walking does not yet exist. Every homeowner should be required to install a curbside bench where people can rest. Every third house should have a water fountain, and every tenth house should have a shower and a bathroom. Each block should be required to erect elevated walkways at every intersection so passengers can cross unimpeded no matter how much car traffic there is. (Crosswalks that consist merely of two painted lines are an affront to greenness.) Eventually every home, store, restaurant and school in the town will be linked by a network of walkways above street level, so people will never even have to look at cars. Stores and restaurants should be required right now to have entrances on their rooftops to accommodate these pedestrians of the future.
8. POSTED BY MellonBrush  |  December 28, 2009 @ 4:39 pm

   Fret not dear mathilda. In a few years, petrol will be so expensive that only the wealthy will have the means to sustain a vehicle powered by internal combustion. Montclair will succumb to the inevitable, inevitably – albeit, later than other less financially endowed communities.
   Heavy Horses, move the land under me.
   Behind the plough gliding slipping and sliding free.
   Now you’re down to the few
   And there’s no work to do:
   The tractor’s on its way.
   Let me find you a filly for your proud stallion seed
   to keep the old line going.
   And we’ll stand you abreast at the back of the wood
   behind the young trees growing.
   To hide you from eyes that mock at your girth,
   and your eighteen hands at the shoulder.
   And one day when the oil barons have all dripped dry
   and the nights are seen to draw colder
   they’ll beg for your strength, your gentle power
   your noble grace and your bearing.
   And you’ll strain once again to the sound of the gulls
   in the wake of the deep plough, sharing.
9. POSTED BY whatsup  |  December 29, 2009 @ 12:55 am

   baristerville? what am that? you am losers. nobuddy call montclair baristerville but you dopes.

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