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Monday, March 9, 2009 by Broken Sidewalk.

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Transportation Issues

Gill Holland gets some common transportation sense printed in the C-J (Ville-Voice)
Transit ridership hit 52-year high in 2008 (NY Times)
Videos of five train lines in Tokyo, Japan (TreeHugger)
But we don’t need trains, just fancy cars with wi-fi (the transport politic)
Bikers still face an upward PR battle on city streets (NY Times)

Stimulus & Recession

Do we need a second, larger stimulus bill? (the transport politic)
Louisville ‘doesn’t do stupid things’, will weather recession well (Wave 3)
Stimulus funds will help rebuild Iroquois homes public housing (Fox 41)

Openings & Closings

Local News

New Albany talks development in and around downtown (N & T)
Louisville’s preserved Main Street is better than bulldozing and starting over (H-L)
(All New) Butchertown Art Fair set for May 17 (Butchertown NA)
New Albany will learn from Newport on the Levee tomorrow (NA Confidential)
Another ‘cool grocery store’ found on Brownsboro Road (A Pretty Pickle)
2,000 glass artists will be in town for convention this June (C-J)
Jeffersonville Town Center stalled by economy (N & T)

Bye-bye Burried Power Lines

Everything Else

First LEED Certified KFC opens in Massachusetts (Business First)
‘Dead malls’ making way for lifestyle-centers (Sust. Industries via Planetizen)

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jimmy

March 10th, 2009

6:59 am

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LEED certified KFC?! The building can be as “green” as they want it to, but shouldn’t LEED consider the environmental destruction that the factory farms providing KFC with product are doing?

I call bullshit
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