From TARC:

The proposed state budget calls for a 30% decrease in funding for public transportation. The three large urban transit systems in Kentucky -- Louisville, Lexington and Northern Kentucky -- testified before the House Transportation Budget Review Committee that $4 million is needed each year of the biennium to avoid service cuts and fare increases.

The Coalition for the Advancement of Regional Transportation is a community service organization serving Kentucky and Southern Indiana. CART was founded in 1992 and is a vocal force in transportation planning for Louisville and Kentucky.

CART - The Coalition for the Advancement of Regional Transportation - is getting its new website online today. If you came here seeking information about multi-modal transportation in Kentucky and Southern Indiana, my advice is to come back tomorrow!

by David Coyte, edited by David Morse

Our business community needs to take a deep breath and face the economic realities that now, and for the foreseeable future, will grip our economy. It is time to detach ourselves from the obsolete policies of Greater Louisville, INC (GLI) and examine what will truly serve us in this century. No where is this more important than in our consideration of the Bridges Project.

TARC is Louisville's public transportation agency.

via Business First:

J. Barry Barker, executive director of Transit Authority of River City, is the recipient of the American Public Transportation Association's 2007 Outstanding Public Transportation Manager Award.

The award goes to the top public-transportation manager in North America who has made outstanding contributions to the public-transportation industry, according to a news release.

Congratulations Barry & TARC!

Transportation investments affect most aspects of our lives: Land use, Air Quality, Accessibility and Livability are the most obvious areas of impact. The oil consumed by transportation - over 13 million barrels a day - is impacting our global climate and bringing us into international conflict. The immanent peak of world oil production signals a radical shift in world energy economics which will cripple those economies which have not prepared by implementing conservation and alternative energy strategies. The United States is the industrial economy most vulnerable to these energy resource depletions.