“Streets for People” Column in KONK Life

The following stories, written by Chris Hamilton, appear in the Key West newspaper KONK Life under the “Streets for People” column heading. They can all be found at KONK Life here or click on the individual story links below:

2022:

• The Mayor’s Strategic Plan is Helping the City Bureaucracy Get Stuff Done; September 22, 2020 (non paywall here)
• Wreckers Cay and County Need to Do Better By New Residents Who Want to Ride Bikes Between Stock Island and Key West; September 2, 2022 (non paywall here)
• Staff Takes Bull By Horns and Upgrades Embarrassing Duval Loop Bus Stop Signs; August 20, 2022 (non paywall here)
• Key West Mayoral and District IV Candidates in Their Own Words on Bike, Walk and Transit Issues; August 5, 2022 (non paywall here)
• Freebee On-Demand Ride-Hailing-to-Transit Might Provide Stock Island Residents With Reason to Leave Their Cars at Home; July 22, 2022 (non paywall here)
• Construction on First and Bertha Streets Doesn’t Follow the Bike Plan. Is It Too Late? July 8, 2022 (non paywall here)
• PeopleforBikes’ 2022 City Ratings Ranks Key West 15th in North America. What Can We Achieve If We Really Try? Our Mayor Says: #1; July 1, 2022 (non paywall here)
• City’s Uber-Like On-Demand Transit Service Back On Track; June 24, 2022 (non paywall here)
• 10 Things to Make It Safer to Bike from the 667 New Housing Units on Stock Island to Key West; June 17, 2022 (non paywall here)
• Duval Loop Ridership is Plummeting. Save the Duval Loop! June 3, 2022 (non paywall here)
• Traffic Nightmare Looms as 132 New Housing Units Added to 700 In the Pipeline on Stock Island and Lower Keys; May 20 2022 (non paywall here)
• The Sorry State of Key West Bus Stops Revisited – What’s Happening a Year Later; May 6, 2022 (non paywall here)
• Ten Ways to Make Car-Free Key West a Reality for Visitors – Part 2: Services, Infrastructure and Policies; April 15, 2022 (non paywall here)
• Ten Ways to Make Car-Free Key West a Reality for Visitors – Part 1: Marketing; April 8, 2022 (non paywall here)
• Just Passed ‘Greener, Cleaner Transport Act’ Says City Vehicles to Be Electric By 2030, Adds Measures to Improve Transit, Biking and Parking; April 1, 2022 (non paywall here)
• Key West Ruins Everything; March 25, 2022 (non paywall here)
• Innovative Lama E-Scooter Share Comes to Key West; March 18, 2022 (non paywall here)
• Stock Island and Lower Keys Workforce Housing Needs Frequent Transit; March 11, 2022 (non paywall here)
• We Can Adapt and Save the Florida Keys from Rising Seas; March 4, 2022 (non paywall here)
• Will Deal on Cruise Ships Finally Lead to Closing the Gap at Admiral’s Cut? February 25, 2022 (non paywall here)
• City’s On-Demand Transit Service is Delayed Again. It’s 10-Year Plan is Scrapped Too; February 18, 2022 (non paywall here)
• Airport’s Need for Additional City Land Could Help Spur Salt Ponds and Smathers Beach “Locals” Bike Trails; February 11, 2022 (non paywall here)
• Too Much Surface Parking at The Lofts is a Wasteful Use of Downtown Land; February 4, 2022 (non paywall here)
• Here’s the Real Lowdown on the Do’s and Don’ts for E-Bikes and E-Scooters in Key West; January 28, 2022 (non paywall here)
• Time to Reimagine Car-Centric, Mainland Style Searstown and Kmart into Island-Friendly Centers with Housing; January 21, 2022 (non paywall here)
• Mallory Sq., Diesel Plant, Duval Street and Bahama Village Projects Create Synergy to Bolster Downtown; January 14, 2022 (non paywall here)
• 3 Reasons You May Not Have Thought of for Voting YES on 3.2 on January 18; January 7, 2022 (non paywall here)

2021:

• Countdown of 2021’s Most Important Bike, Walk and Transit Stories – Is Our Glass Half Full or Half Empty? Part 2: The Case for a Glass Half Full Year; December 17, 2021 (non paywall here)
• Countdown of 2021’s Most Important Bike, Walk and Transit Stories – Is Our Glass Half Full or Half Empty? Part 1: The Case for a Glass Half Empty Year; December 10, 2021 (non paywall here) 
• Countdown of the 10 Most Important Bike, Walk and Transit Stories of 2019 and 2020 Revisited; December 3, 2021 (non paywall here)
• Counting Down the Top 10 Most Popular Stories of 2021; November 26, 2021 (non paywall here)
• Prominent Locals Say We’ve Got a Lot to Be Thankful for When It Comes to Biking and Walking in Key West; November 19, 2021 (non paywall here)
• City Fails, Again, to Make South Roosevelt Boulevard and Promenade Safer for Bikes, Pedestrians and Vehicles; November 12, 2021 (non paywall here)
• It’s Time to Eliminate Free On-Street Parking for Visitors Downtown; November 5, 2021 (non paywall here)
• It’s Official – Uber-Like On-Demand Transit Coming to Key West in December; October 29, 2021 (non-paywall here)
• D.C. Baseball, Tattoos, Key West and the World Series; October 22, 2021; (non paywall here)
• Meet Local Ryan Stachurski – The City’s New “Bike Guy”; October 8, 2021 (non paywall here)
• Duval Street Revitalization Back on Track; October 1, 2021 (non paywall here)
• Airport Expansion Means Fewer Cars on Our Island, September 24, 2021 (non paywall here)
• Reimagining Key West – 10 Goals for a Better Future and 10 Actions to Get There; September 17, 2021 (non paywall here)
• Serious Bikeshare in the U.S.A. is 11 Years Old. Its Success Shows Cities Can Do Innovative Work; September 10, 2021 (non paywall here)
• Can We Save Key West Transit from a Death Spiral; September 3, 2021 (non paywall here)
• We Need to Increase the Quantity and Quality of Bicycle Parking Downtown; August 27, 2021 (non paywall here)
• City to Make It Easier to Bike to the Lower Keys Shuttle Bus; August 20, 2021 (non paywall here)
• It’s Time to Put an Hourly Limit on the Free On-Street Parking Spaces and Institute a Zone System for Residential Parking Permits Downtown; August 13, 2021 (non paywall here)
• We Need to Encourage Efforts Like the Proposed Lama Electric Scooter; August 6, 2021 (non paywall here)
• Uber-Like Transit Coming to Key West; July 30, 2021; (non paywall here)
• Our Top 7 Bike, Walk, Transit and Streets for People Articles of 2021; July 24, 2021 (non paywall here)
• With the Duval Street Revitalization Plan Way Behind Schedule, Here’s 3 Quick Wins for Pedestrianizing Duval Street Now; July 16, 2021 (non paywall here)
• Limiting Large Cruise Ships Gives Us an Opportunity to Make Duval Street and Historic Downtown More Local Focused, Again; July 9, 2021 (non paywall here)
• Mayor Bravely Puts Onus on Commission to Do Heavy Lifting on Better Bike, Walk and Transit. Will They Come Through?; July 2, 2021 (non paywall here)
• Monorail, Monorail, Monorail or Just Say No to Privatizing Key West Parking; June 25, 2021 (non paywall here)
• New City Manager Will Be Good for Bike, Walk, Transit and For Key West; June 18, 2021 (non-paywall here)
• PeopleForBikes Ranks Key West 39th Best City for Bicycling; June 11, 2021 (non-paywall here)
• First and Bertha Streets Corridor Road Improvements Are Another Missed Opportunity to Make Bicycling Safer and Easier; June 4, 2021 (non-paywall here)
• Want Sidewalk Cafe’s and Other Amenities? We Need to Take Some Space from Cars; May 28, 2021 (non-paywall here)
• In Quest to Improve Crosstown Greenway, City Prepares to Construct New Bike Trail Segment; May 21, 2021 (non-paywall here)
• How Better Transit and Bicycle Facilities Can Help Address Affordable Housing; May 14, 2021 (non-paywall here)
• City Commission Tries to Have Its Cake and Eat It Too On S. Roosevelt Blvd. – Perhaps Dooming a Safer Project; May 7, 2021 (non-paywall here)
• What’s Old is New Again – Two New Bike Trails Take Us Back Us Back in Time to a Simpler Key West; April 30, 2020 (non-paywall here)
• Do Key West Commercial Areas Need Business Improvement Districts (BIDS)? – Part 2: What BIDS in Key West Might Look Like; April 23, 2021 (non-paywall reprint here)
• Do Key West Commercial Areas Need Business Improvement Districts (BIDS)? – Part 1: What’s a BID?; April 16, 2021 (non-paywall reprint here)
• The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly – A Dozen Marketing Things KW Transit Can Do To Increase Ridership; April 9, 2021 (non-paywall reprint here)
• The Sorry State of Key West Bus Stops – We Just Don’t Care; April 2, 2021 (non-paywall reprint here)
• It’s Time to Reconsider a Road Diet on S. Roosevelt and Make the Promenade and Road Safer; March 26, 2021 (non paywall reprint here)
• Getting the Parking Right Leads to Streets for People – Part 2: Battling Our Inner George Costanza – Ten Things We Can Do in Downtown Key West to Get the Parking Right; March 19, 2021; (non paywall reprint here)
• Getting the Parking Right Leads to Streets for People – Part 1: Nobody Goes there Anymore. It’s Too Crowded – Six Reasons for Right Pricing Parking; March 12, 2021; (non paywall reprint here)
• Eight Things We Can Do to Pedestrianize Duval and Still Allow Cars, March 5, 2021; (non paywall reprint here)
• How We Get Wider Sidewalks Downtown Without Ripping Up the Streets – Parklets; February 26, 2021; (non paywall reprint here)
• The Wee Donkey, Whataboutism, Bathwater and Duval Street’s Future; February 19, 2021; (non paywall reprint here)
• Averting E-Bike Mayhem and Making Key West Sidewalks Safer; February 12, 2021; (non paywall reprint here)
• Sustainability Board Wants to Make Free, Frequent and Simple Key West Transit a Reality, February 5, 2021; (non paywall reprint here)
• Volunteers and a Little Green Paint Show How We Can Make it Safer to Bike; January 29, 2021; (non paywall reprint here)