Coalition for the Advancement of Regional
Transportation annual meeting featuring
Cincinnati's Streetcar Plan
presented by
Mr. John Schneider
of Cincinnati's Alliance for Regional Transit
August 24th, 6:30 - 8:30 PM
Highlands Shelby Park Library
Community Room
Mid-City Mall, 1250 Bardstown Road

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The agenda also includes social time, the
opportunity to join CART, the annual business
meeting, and the election of new board members.
 

The Ohio River Bridges project prioritizes car & truck dependence for the region at the cost of all other transportation alternatives. Your last chance to tell the government to find us better options is now through July 13. Follow this link and let them know what you think of their three options, none of which include significant increases to public transit service.

Ticket reservations may be made by calling 866-801-3463 between 8:30 a.m. and 5 p.m. weekdays.
Read more: http://www.kentucky.com/2011/04/22/1716243/my-old-kentucky-dinner-train-to.html#ixzz1KNtjbH9s

Approximately 75 supporters gathered tonight to hear details on the Brownsboro Road Diet and Sidewalk project. The project is expected to break ground this summer. This news was met with enthusiastic applause from the crowd, whose only complaint was that the project wasn't already complete!

Councilwoman Tina Ward-Pugh presented spokespeople from Public Works and TARC.

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Ralph Tharp, executive director of Kentucky Capital Development Corporation in Frankfort, is championing a new passenger rail service linking Louisville, Lexington, and nine other stops. Trains would run at commute hours, and combine the speed of driving with the superior comfort, safety and economy of rail.

More information: Riding the Train - State-Journal.com

Photo courtesy Andy Dyson @ Bicycling for Louisville

TARC's "Bikes on Board" program has been so successfull, people are complaining that there's no space. One possible stopgap is to replace the current generation of 2-bike racks with 3-bike racks. TARC has outfitted a pair of buses with triple racks and is going to begin testing them soon. Reps from CART and Bicycling for Louisville were invited to give feedback at a meeting today.  The racks were not perfect, but neither were the existing racks. Yours truly brought his biggest, most cantankerous bicycle, which is actually incompatible with the current crop of racks, and it looks like both models of new rack are better for it.

If you use one of these on the street, be sure to write TARC and/or comment here with any thoughts you might have on them.

"Transit group loses bid to join lawsuit against ORBP" [leoweekly.com]

"Broken Wheels" [leoweekly.com]

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].

"Unlikely Allies" [leoweekly.com]