Sorry for the Broken Sidewalk mini-outage over the past few days. We lost power and couldn’t do much of anything. There’s still no power, but we made it to a computer that works and have shacked up downtown for the time being, so here goes with the good-ole posting schedule. Here’s a healthy dose of headlines that have accumulated almost as fast as the snow. We have a bunch of stories we would like to get online ASAP, so we’ll try our best to be quick.
Ice Storm 2009
- Ice Storm 2009 is officially worse than the Wind Event of 2008 (Business First)
- With 250,000 losing power in Kentuckiana (including BS) (Wave 3)
- And it’s going to be over a week before all the lights are back on (WFPL)
- Causing Obama to declare a disaster zone in Kentucky (H-L)
- But Jefferson Co. not hit hard enough to be a disaster, evidently (Business First)
Transportation Issues
- Bike lights reviewed (NY Times via TreeHugger)
- Or go for the entire-bike-as-light approach (TreeHugger)
- Problems inherent with cutting transit service, raising rates (LA Times)
- Transit doesn’t make a profit? Highways don’t either (Overhead Wire)
- The bridges project is the third largest road project in the country (Business First)
- Jump-start the local economy with a highway-teardown (StreetsBlog)
- House passes infrastructure stimulus bill (NY Times)
- With minor victories for trains and transit (WSJ via StreetsBlog)
- But highways beat out transit 3 to 1 (Philly Enquirer via StreetsBlog)
- Should the government give tax incentives to buy a car? (TreeHugger)
- New Albany trying to solve its downtown parking problems with permits (N & T)
- River Road scenic byway gets funding for bike lanes and such (Business First)
- Delta Queen to become floating hotel in Chattanooga (Business First)
- But could this be the riverboat of the future? (Inhabit)
- Blurb comparing gas taxes and cigarette taxes (Overhead Wire)
- And the auto-industry is still looking dire (C-J)
Local Events
- Environmental film festival hits the Clifton Center Feb. 7 (Watchdog Earth)
- Go to the Frazier Museum for free tomorrow (Friday) (Consuming Louisville)
- The ice storm can’t keep Frankfort Ave. trolley hop down (Consuming Louisville)
- Develop New Albany meets at NA – YMCA Feb 4 (NA Confidential)
Everything Else
- Downtown Management District chief steps down (C-J)
- Strategies for building suburbs to stand the test of time (Urbanophile)
- Big-boxes present a redevelopment nighmare (Naked City via Planetizen)
- More people employed in wind power than coal power (CNN via Page One)
- Whisky/scotch company building whisky-powered power plant (Inhabit)
- Postal service looking into cutting service (WHAS 11 / AP)
