Transportation Issues
- Semi-driver hits cars in emergency lane, drags man 200 feet (N & T)
- Pedestrian/bike safety ‘One Road’ Â HB 88 sure would have been nice (FatLip)
- Portland’s (OR) new downtown trains greeted ‘like rock stars’ (Oregonian via Overhead Wire)
- Tips for becoming an ‘expert’ transit rider (re:place via Planetizen)
- Head over heals on the ‘highway to hell’ (Financial Times)
- Sprawl causes infrastructure costs to skyrocket (Citiwire via Planetizen)
Arena Mayhem
- Norton Healthcare named $10 million arena sponsor (C-J)
- And will operate an immediate care center inside the arena (Business First)
- Which could presumably be used for drunken-brawl first aid (FatLip)
Local News
- New Albany could have worst window job ever (Our History NA)
- Kaelin’s closed for remodeling (but will re-open) (Consuming Lou)
- More coverage here and here and here
- Wagner’s Pharmacy among top American breakfasts (19/53 in show) (Esquire via Imagine Lou)
- Schnitzelburg bar getting facelift to draw a younger crowd (Beers for all Occasions)
- New Albany looks to learn from Newport on the Levee at Mar. 10 meeting (N & T)
- And its downtown master plan is finishing up final steps, too (N & T)
- Jeffersonville enlists student help in riverfront ‘peace memorial’ (N & T)
- Star of Jeffersonville ends cruises due to ‘sinking sales’ (C-J)
- This long gone brick factory is pretty amazing (a pretty pickle)
- Coca-Cola brings high-tech IT jobs to town (Business First)
- Louisville’s downtown residential growth not keeping pace (WFPL)
- Fort Knox expansion is regional ‘golden opportunity’ (Fox 41)
- And already, a renovated 1933 building shows ‘green’ promise (Business First)
- Louisville’s landfill problems here and here.
Everything Else
- Louisville’s peer cities make healthiest housing markets (Builder via Planetizen)
- Sydney turns construction sites into works of art (Sydney Morning Herald)
- Soapy, floating public art in London (Design Under Sky via Super Colossal)
