Orlando's effort to restore brick roads could hit a snag

The only people against brick streets are worker drones from faceless subdivisions that only drive thru areas where charm and aesthetics trump cheap convenience. Like anyone cares about your dumpy econobox rattling.

don't like the bricks, move back north and complain

Thank you Fudd, Auent, and Casey for your posts re: brick streets. I called Patty Sheeman my councilwoman. Was told by the police that I "perceive" the cars are speeding because of the bricks. Since we can't get any help in the city with stopping cut through traffic and speeding on residential streets, I will take whatever protection the bricks provide from getting runover when I walk or try to back out of my driveway.

Maxfield wrote:

Thank you Fudd, Auent, and Casey for your posts re: brick streets. I called Patty Sheeman my councilwoman. Was told by the police that I "perceive" the cars are speeding because of the bricks. Since we can't get any help in the city with stopping cut through traffic and speeding on residential streets, I will take whatever protection the bricks provide from getting runover when I walk or try to back out of my driveway.

Scatter some loose bricks around the road, on their ends and sides. There's nothing like the look of a speeding drivers ignorant mug when their Toyota hits a loose brick at 40 MPH. Major suspension damage often teaches suburban mouth breathers to stick to the well traveled, 4 lane pavement major roads for their commutes.

These brick streets are an idiotic anachronism, and make driving dangerous, so I keep my airhorn on the entire time I'm on a brick street to warn people.

As a downtown resident, I appreciate the brick roadways. Asthetically they are nice to look at, but oh are they noisy.

I'd rather the city spend my tax dollars burying power and telephone poles.

David wrote:

As a downtown resident, I appreciate the brick roadways. Asthetically they are nice to look at, but oh are they noisy.
I'd rather the city spend my tax dollars burying power and telephone poles.

You live in the wrong town then. Undergrounding will not happen in downtown Orlando.

Casey Tatum wrote:

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Scatter some loose bricks around the road, on their ends and sides. There's nothing like the look of a speeding drivers ignorant mug when their Toyota hits a loose brick at 40 MPH. Major suspension damage often teaches suburban mouth breathers to stick to the well traveled, 4 lane pavement major roads for their commutes.

Thanks for the suggestion. I have noticed that when the bricks lift on their own and stick out, the sounds of cars scraping on the bricks is comforting during rush hour.

This is dumb. Yes, the brick roads look nice, but they kill your car. I can't believe we are cutting funding to our public schools left and right but people think we should waste the money to maintain these streets? Want that rustic charm? Why don't we go back to dirt roads. Makes as much sense. Besides, I thought Mayor Quimby wanted us to develop into a big city. Now we are suppose to go back to a small town? Make up your mind.

Nihilistic Nate wrote:

This is dumb. Yes, the brick roads look nice, but they kill your car. I can't believe we are cutting funding to our public schools left and right but people think we should waste the money to maintain these streets? Want that rustic charm? Why don't we go back to dirt roads. Makes as much sense. Besides, I thought Mayor Quimby wanted us to develop into a big city. Now we are suppose to go back to a small town? Make up your mind.

Dirt roads would be fine for me.

Bricks are pwetty.

P.S. I think I'm better than everyone else, and I'm oh-so chic.

The streets look nice but are nasty to drive at any speed.

Even at a slow speed the brick streets cracked the top right side of my '92 cadillac's front end exterior. I love the look of the brick roads but we need to desperatley shore up some spots around lake davis and near thornton park that have sunken from a small divot to a major pothole. And while we're at fixing things can we get those railroad tracks on Kaley Ave smoothed out like they are on Orange Ave and Mills in Winter Park?

Yes, all these comments mean to me is that those of you who don't live on our brick streets need to stick to main roads and stay out. You can use Briercliff, Orange Ave, etc instead of cutting through streets in Thornton Park.

I drive the briks streets every day from my home to work, and over the past few years since I;ve lined in a brick paved neighborhood, my car has paid a price as well...I'm always pulling a hunk of something that once was supposed to protect the undercarriage off of the car, and I;ve developed some new and st times interesting new noises in the car since as well. But, one evening I was walking with a friend in the evening along a brick paves street and he pointed out something incredible about those bricks...in the light from streetlights at the right angle, you can see the fingerprints of the people who made the bricks, you can see it best on moonlit nights. Go for a walk along a brick street and just look down at the bricks...it's really cool...all these fingerprints going up and down the streets...

Gatortard wrote:

I speed up on brick streets - Livingston is a betch if you go slow. Going faster seems to smooth it out and make it less teeth-rattling.

Well I have back problems and they shake all the wrong things in my back. People spend all kind of cash to have a smooth ride and the city comes along and put our shocks through the test. I hate speed bumps. I would love to do A class action lawdsuit on those damm things. People tickets make you slow down not the bricks.

People complaining about brick streets don't know the beauty, charm, and safety of living in a brick street neighborhood.

If you have a big problem with the bricks, or worry about your precious car, then stick to the paved roads (they are the vast majority of the roadways, BTW). Residents of brick paved residential neighborhoods really won't mind if you don't feel entitled to cut through their quiet enclaves to speed to work.

This isn't even really much of a story, except for the envy/class warfare angle.

Homes in historic brick street neighborhoods are much more sought after and substantially more valuable than suburban homes in standard tarmac cul de sacs.