This is a short series that I was not intending to make a series of.. I think my intention was more to give an update of Bridgestone/Firestone construction..  But seeing MayDay's series of linking his Cuy. Valley tour with Cleveland I figured why not throw my little smattering of Ipod pictures together in a series..

 

The first is at the Brandywine waterfalls where construction crews are putting a bridge over the highway and a new tunnel for bikers to get underneath the parking lot entrance and circle up to the bridge.

 

The following are a picture of Boston Mills at Open House, followed by this past Friday in downtown Akron at 69 Taps looking at the towpath and across to where Echogen is going in at.  Also an evening picture of the grand opening from Zar.  The last few shots are the Bridgestone R&D campus with the new R&D building on the left and the new parking garage on the right.

 

(sorry for not editing my various typos and names of companies yesterday.  Was focused on the photos)

Akron's doing some great things!

Having come of age in an era when people rolled their eyes, at least mentally, at me for my advocacy of bicycling as functional transportation, I'm amazed and delighted when I see infrastructure projects like this. It's one thing for public officials to profess support for bicycling, and quite another for them to pony up funds for real construction. After all these years, I feel vindicated.