The Salvation Army building atop Coles Hill is a small piece of Plymouth’s housing puzzle. But it matters. I don’t mean to leave you hanging, but a bit of backstory is needed before we get to “here’s why.” The Carver Street building has sat empty for nearly a decade – through and beyond a red-hot […]
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‘Speed and greed’: Readers react to column on rampant red-light running
My recent column about the rampant disregard of red lights – along with other basic rules of the road – generated a lot of in-box traffic. As I wrote, it’s not strictly a Plymouth problem, but since this is where we live, it’s where we drive the most, and why we care more. Of the […]
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Wild in the streets of Plymouth: When did running red lights become normalized?
“This is what it has come to.” So begins the trailer for “Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior.” In director George Miller’s 1981 apocalyptic classic, rules of the road get run over as unhinged drivers race to avoid extinction. The wild ride doesn’t end well for most. It reminds me of driving around Plymouth. Based […]