I was highly critical of the recent decision by the city of Tybee Island to scan the license plates of every single car coming or going from the island. Today, the Tybee Island city council voted unanimously to overturn that…
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Big Brother on Tybee Island?
From the Savannah Morning News’ Tybee to purchase licence plate scanners: The Tybee City Council’s vote Thursday night to purchase two license plate reading cameras means in the near future every vehicle that drives on and off the island city…
Fixing the road to Tybee: where’s the money?
I just wanted to suggest that readers who have safety concerns about Highway 80 — the road to Tybee — should check out a new article by Jeremy Scheinbart in Connect Savannah: Fixing Highway 80; Plans abound, but funding is…
A few evening shots on Tybee Island — the beach, the pier, the lighthouse
I had a nice evening at Tybee last night — I got back downtown just before the lightning storm unleashed itself. I hadn’t been out to Tybee in a while by myself, and I hadn’t taken any photos out there…
Twitter says: Looks like a big crowd for Orange Crush today
I sure hope Orange Crush doesn’t have the same problems it had last year. I’ll reduce those problems essentially to two: Incredibly irresponsible behavior by the party’s organizers who made no provision and the attendees who devoted not energy for…
Let’s hope public gets behind plan for safer bridges on road to Tybee
We need safer bridges on the road to Tybee — on US 80 from the Bull River all the way to the other side of Lazaretto Creek. The proposed plan addresses our critical needs.
A few final thoughts on T-SPLOST
Do Savannah area voters who soundly rejected T-SPLOST realize just how little state money we’re likely to get in coming years for new road construction, modifications for safety and efficiency, transit, and various other categories of transportation spending?
“Green Crush” cleanup to counter fallout from Orange Crush?
I hope I’m not jumping the gun by too much here in posting this, but I’m interested to see the hashtag #greencrush appearing this afternoon on Twitter. Even though Savannah State University officials urged students not to participate in last…
The many lessons of Orange Crush 2k12
Almost 100 Facebook friends of mine have already shared the YouTube video shot Sunday morning by citizens who wanted to spotlight the trash left on Tybee beach after Saturday night’s Orange Crush party. Of course, I have about 2,400 Facebook…
Recapping the history of major hurricanes (category 3+) hitting the Georgia coast
I posted some of this information before, but this seems like a good time for a recap. No major hurricanes — defined as those of category 3, 4, or 5 — made landfall on the Georgia coast in the 20th…
New video promotes Tybee’s uniqueness, eccentricity
There’s a new video from the Tybee Island Tourism Council promoting Tybee as a destination that’s relaxing, quirky, historical, a little wild — pretty much what I think of Tybee on its best days. Karl Strauch and Coastal Marketing Group…