Louisville History & Issues did a full wrap up on last week's Mayoral Debate and here is what they had to say.
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As Louisville's ORBP strives to build an LA-sized Spaghetti Junction...
Live near a freeway? Heart disease risk may be higher:
"Los Angeles residents living near freeways experience a hardening of the arteries that leads to heart disease and strokes at twice the rate of those who live farther away, a study has found."
Despite the appearance of progress for the funding of the Ohio River Bridges Project, the pursuit of "two bridges, one project" is destined to fail. As it should. It's simply "too big to succeed".
WFPL's Gabe Bullard reported...
"While the authority was formed to transcend political pressure and speed up the bridges' construction, it's clear that every decision will face challenges, as Ward-Pugh, 8664 and River Fields remain dedicated to their own visions for the bridges project."
Chase Cain reports on The Case of the Missing LEOs.
We're expecting the Courier's team of investigative reporters to cover this story any day now. We will send you the link since many of you no longer take the paper.
River Fields threatens to sue LEO Weekly.
Read about it in "A trip down the river" by Stephen George.
And read Edie Bingham's letter to the editor in this week's LEO:
"I cannot endure the thought of our riverfront and downtown being buried under more concrete and traffic when it took 40 years to revive the Main Street activity, riverfront and downtown reinvestment."
Today's New York Times article about Providence, Rhode Island:
This city, which once moved rivers to create a new urban design, is now moving a major highway away from its downtown and opening up approximately 20 acres for development. This newly accessible area is within walking distance of Providence's historic waterfront and commercial downtown.
It continues:
But it is already generating considerable excitement among city and state officials, who see a rare opportunity to strengthen the city and state's economies and to connect neighborhoods to the Providence River waterfront, which has been cut off for years.
This afternoon the Transportation Committee of Metro Council gave the Tolling Authority resolution the rubber stamp. Despite articulate pleas by Councilwoman Ward-Pugh and Councilman Owen for public involvement, the four other present transportation committee members abdicated their responsibility to govern and passed the resolution.
Today Streetblog.org ran a story entitled: Fighting to take back Lousiville's Waterfront. Streetsblog is a daily news source, online community and political mobilizer for the Livable Streets movement.
Aaron Renn is an award-winning independent urban affairs thinker and strategist based in Chicago and Indianapolis. He writes a blog titled The Urbanophile which provides insightful commentary on Midwestern Cities. We invited Renn to Louisville to take a look around and give us his thoughts on our alternative to the Ohio River Bridges Project. Read Louisville: The Case for 8664.
