Our last sidewalk photo proved quite a challenge as no one got the location at 32nd Street looking toward Virginia Avenue. Here’s a new sidewalk photo ready for guesses in the comments.
Local News
- Could road side art help calm traffic in Butchertown? (Historic B-town)
- New flower shop coming soon to the Douglass Loop (Consuming Lou)
- Take a look inside the new Downtown Qdoba (Consuming Lou)
- The problem of affordable housing in Louisville (LEO)
- Analyzing why the Chick Inn went out of business (Mojo, C-J, Fox 41)
- Loan will help Habitat & Youthbuild expand headquarters (C-J)
- What will become of Louisville’s most polluted nabe: Rubbertown? (Fat Lip)
- Spray ground planned at Breslin Park, swimming pool to be filled in (C-J)
- The tale of the Phoenix Hill shotgun house that didn’t get torn down (C-J)
- The West End School gets grant for expansion (Fox 41)
- Havana Rumba opening another location in Middletown (C-J)
- And other local restaurant news and rumors (Mojo)
- Norton Commons could get a new public school (C-J)
- Changes could be in store for Louisville condo law (C-J)
- More on Tafel Motors’ plans for Shelbyville Road (C-J, V-T)
Events
- Fundraiser to help West Louisville churches go green on April 6 (Green Guide)
- Meeting to plan Petersburg Park scheduled for Monday, March 15 (Metro Parks)
- Neighborhood planning group plans meeting on ORBP on March 27 (C-J)
Transportation
- Louisville is on Google’s new bike route planning service (F Gas)
- Planned dedicated bus lanes in New York look pretty cool (StreetsBlog)
- Can Louisville get in on this streetcar manufacturing game? (CNN Money)
- Watterson exit at Westport Road won’t open until after Derby (Lou.com)
- A map of the human body if it were a subway system (Info Aesthetics)
- This device powers a bike light from the movement of the wheels (Inhabitat)
- Ten transportation blogs worth looking at (The Source via CART)
- A bus stop you could call Home, Sweet Home (Apt. Therapy)
- A horrific picture of trampled bikes (OMFG, Bikes)
- Let’s build one of these between the Ali Center and the Belvedere (Space Invading)
- Imagine a traffic jam of books – not cars – on your street (Mocoloco)
- The state of the union for cycling and walking (Urban Velo)
- Lexington plans a Tweed Ride before Louisville has one (F Gas)
Everything Else
- Keep the next Yucca Mountain out of Kentucky (LEO)
- Considering branding strategies for cities (Urbanophile)
- Must see Rube Goldberg music video by OK Go (Boing Boing)
- Guerilla artist turns potholes into mini-gardens (Inhabitat)
- How to build a backyard chicken coop (Boing Boing)
- Urbanophile considers the downsides of consolidated government (Urb1, Urb2)
- The greenest building is the one that already exists (TreeHugger via tipster)
- American Enterprise Inst. talks about risks of ignoring beauty (AEI via Twitter)
- Cities need to promote & create ‘urban innovation hot spots’ (Biz Week)
- San Francisco’s Pavement to Parks initiative peels back the street (Inhabitat)
- More on the continuing General Growth saga (Biz First, WSJ1, WSJ2, WSJ3)
- And a few flickr photos of the day here and here and here.













