How to explain the inexplicable death of Sabrina Obando? The 22-year-old UF grad from Miami was crossing NW 8th Avenue … More
Category: Life in autoAmerica
Blogs about surviving and taking back the streets in the autoAmerican age.
Another traffic death
A spray of dead flowers propped on a concrete pole was a sad reminder that something terrible had happened at … More
Dereliction of duty.
Gainesville adopted its first speed limit in 1882 – 10 mph – to crack down on fast horses and daring … More
Let’s make 8th Avenue a complete street
A spray of dead flowers propped on a concrete pole was a sad reminder that something terrible had happened at … More
Technology on speed
Daddy said son Your gonna drive me to drinkin’ If you don’t stop dragging That hot rod Lincoln Charlie Ryan, … More
autoAmerican Anarchy imitates art
You can’t even make this stuff up anymore. In “Animal House” the fun loving boys of Delta Tau Chi threw … More
autoAmerican Anarchy imitates art
You can’t even make this stuff up anymore. In “Animal House” the fun loving boys of Delta Tau Chi threw … More
Our accidental avenue
Four-year-old Dylan Roberts died of traffic violence on Oct. 7. This because University Avenue cuts off the house he lived … More
More autoAmerican anarchy
It’s been a while since our last edition of aAA. And so much has happened that it’s hard to know … More
Stop killing our children
For all of the attention we’ve given to University Avenue since several UF students were killed or injured there, the … More