cartky.org

• Louisville ranks 7th most dangerous for pedestrians - C-J
• On Foot, In Danger - C-J editorial
• Tell your Congressperson you support the Complete Streets Bill of 2009!
• Tree Planting for victims of Bardstown Road meets with success - new street design pending - C-J
• World is much closer to Peak Oil than official estimates admit, says IEA whistleblower; US suppresses data to quell high gas prices - Guardian via Louisville Peak Oil List
• Two Bridges Too Far - Bob Hill editorial at Louisville Magazine
• Conservatives and Mass Transit Book Review - Politics Daily
• Why is Smart Growth so expensive? Because there's more demand than supply, stupid - Streetsblog
• Kentucky's 'Zombie' I-66 down but not out - Streetsblog
  (Remember rule #2: Double Tap)
• Study: Hidden health costs of motoring: $56billion - Streetsblog

Quote of the Day

[M]any cities have taken space that was the domain of people, just people, and have pushed them out of it, unless they are in automobiles.…[M]uch of small town America has become simply highways with strip malls alongside. Most often, this was done without any consultation of the citizens -- for instance, Interstate 5 was laid out in North Portland, and all the residents who lived in the path of the freeway were simply told they had to move, no choice about it.

What this resulted in was an increasing suspicion, and finally a confident opinion in many places, that if you weren't in a car, you didn't belong outside of your house/apartment/yard. It became more and more difficult to move around outside of your own yard if you weren't in a car in many places. Because of this, many places in the U.S. have inherited cities populated with metal boxes instead of trees, grass, flowers, and most notably, people. Because of this, many places in the U.S. have inherited cities that are noisy, smelly and stressful. Because of this, many places in the U.S. have inherited cities in which their children must stay inside, cannot go anywhere on their own, where children and parents alike feel afraid to enter public space, and where, once you step out your front door, you must be on guard.

Portlandize, via Streetsblog