If you're not one of the ~40 people who showed up for the CART Annual Meeting tonight, you can catch Dr Jerry Rose's powerpoint presentation here [40mb].

Editorial

The Big 4 Bridge will be completed in a year or two, if we can find $12m for the Indiana ramp. But why should we build this bridge? Read more...

Check out the LEO fatlip blog which is covering the PETA KFC chicken statue saga. The city has denied PETA's request to place the statue citing sidewalk-right-of-way issues.

Sidewalk statues can be really annoying. About time someone stood up on this issue!

Though we haven't looked at the site in question, this has been a nagging general concern of ours for a few years.

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Photo Credit: Rolf Eisinger

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Poll: "Leaders in Louisville have been debating how to construct and pay for
new bridges over the Ohio River for decades. Which project do you prefer?"
 

A cn|2 politics poll finds only 14.2% of Louisville voters favor the two-bridge configuration championed by the Ohio River Bridges Project. Furthermore, a whopping 50.3% favor building only an east-end bridge. Credit where it's due - it's a very, very good day over at 8664.

"Neither New Bridge" exceeds expectations as well!

Additional cn|2 coverage of the poll can be found here.

Update: LEO weighs in.

"Unlikely Allies" [leoweekly.com]

Presentation by Dr. Jerry Rose
Civil Engineering Professor at UK

As part of the ...

CART Annual Meeting

Monday, August 23, 2010  6:00 - 8:00 PM
Highlands Shelby Park Community Room
Mid-City Mall, 1250 Bardstown Road

This program is free and open to the public. There will be opportunity for discussion and mingling, as well as an update on recent CART activities, annual financial report, etcetera.

Source: RITA, Buearu of Transportation Statistics - Table 1-12: U.S. Sales or Deliveries of New Aircraft, Vehicles, Vessels, and Other Conveyances.

& asks for Sidewalk Diversions to become a standard tool in the design of worksites

Accomodating walking needs to be standard operating procedure not just on Main Street, but in the entire city.

Thank You!

Thanks go out to Louisville Department of Public Works & Assets and the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet for moving quickly to address this important issue! Thanks also to Phil Miller at the Mayor's office, Terra Long at Councilman Owen's office, and Rob Haynes at Councilman Tandy's office. The thanks are for this!:

Read more below the fold...

Protest Planned For Friday

UPDATE: check out the exciting news about Main Street.

Downtown Louisville has the most important sidewalks in the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Not only are the walkers here incredibly numerous, but they're also the economic engine that keeps the state afloat. The business deals, the bus stops, the remote parking lots, the lunch meetings - all these trips have a walking component. So you would think that we would take special measures to keep walking downtown safe and dignified - it's just common sense.

Our elite cadre of CART photographers recently took to the streets to see how we're doing on that...

Here you see the long-standing Arena construction site. We're looking at Main Street between 2nd and 3rd. You can see they've blocked the sidewalk with a fence and some orange-and-white barricades (they're technically called "longitudinal channellizing devices" or LCDs).