Another successful sidewalk identification. Well done Paul Kuhl, corbballspieler, and Matthew Kuhl for identifying the sidewalk on Pine Street looking towards Hull Street in Irish Hill. Here we go with another round. Guesses in the comments.
Transportation
- One dead, 2 in hospital after motorist hits cyclists in Hardin Co. (C-J)
- Cyclist killed by hit-and-run drunk driver near E.P. “Tom” Sawyer Park (C-J)
- Driver was facing previous DUI, pleads not guilty (C-J)
- Remembering cyclist deaths and punishing killer drivers (Barry’s Bike Blog)
- Educational brochure helps motorists coexist with cyclists (Commute Orlando via SB-net)
- Study shows drivers like cars with aggressive, angry ‘faces’ (Boing Boing)
- The latest from the streetcar debate in Cincinnati (Urbanophile)
- Dump the Pump video contest offers free transit for a year (APTA via @gotolouisville)
- Seven car-free cities & towns from around the world (Mother Earth via P-zen)
- Could abolishing the one-dollar bill in favor of the coin help transit? (Human Transit)
Local News
- 40th Street Rod Nationals heading to town (Rat Rod Street via @gotolouisville)
- Take a photo tour update of Butchertown’s newest bar (Sergio’s World Beers)
- ‘Healthy in a Hurry’ corner store initiative has mixed results (C-J)
- Highland Baptist Church unveils new stained glass windows (C-J)
- BOZA to reconsider homeless shelter decision (C-J)
- WSJ lists Louisville’s skate park among world’s 10 best (C-J Editorial)
Everything Else
- As city centers come back, they become hubs of civic & cultural activity (New Geo)
- Cheap opportunities for downtown revitalization (metromode via PPS)
- Study shows strip malls, big box stores increase risk of car crashes (City Fix via PPS)
- Water fountains in parks are good for children’s health (Guardian via PPS)
- Life expectancy in the South not looking good (Creative Class)
That would be Main St. in Middletown.
Is there a reason why the article about the skate park transformed into a rant about how those opposing the ORBP are resisting “modernity”….. What a bum. That was one of the worst, most unfocused pieces the Courier has published yet. What a joke.
Hawpe’s vision of ‘modernity’ is the same as Abramson’s sadly out-of-date vision of modernity: the Cordish name-brand Hard Rock Cafe and the gee whiz, ‘look at the big highway full of modrin cars zooming by’, GM Futurama world: a tarnished and empty ‘modernity’ now stale and corrupt. His call and Abramson’s call are like grandad saying, “Whoa, those Beatles are so hep!”
It’s the 21st century, and though I’m Abramson’s age, I’m clear-eyed enough to know there is a new definition of ‘modern’ that looks cleaner and quieter and more real and humane and intimate than a world of jet-packs.
Hawpe’s argument comparing the skate park and the bridges project is a huge illogical leap. His approach of “thinking big” is an outdated model that’s increasingly being replaced by “thinking smart.” In this case, thinking big produces the 23-lane tangle Downtown, which is certainly big. Hawpe is thinking “big.” Smart is another thing completely. By the logic of thinking big, everyone should trade in their bikes and hybrids for hummers. That’s thinking big.
His idea of “fantasy” is also confusing. If the study by the KYTC that says the 8664 plan provides the same results as the bridges plan is fantasy, how can Hawpe trust anything else produced by the KYTC?
But really, the arguments have been getting so weak that it’s a little pathetic. Often, the approach is to sling some mud riddled with ad-hominem attacks against anyone who disagrees. Call them dreamers or purveyors of fantasy. Louisville doesn’t need dreamers.
The last time “modernity” and “build a lot of giant highways” went together was long ago in the 20th century. I would venture, even, that the skate park analogy be reversed. It was a novel idea that flew in the face of traditional notions of revitalization, yet proved a success after so many doubts. Sounds more like 8664.