No guesses for yesterday’s sidewalk photo, which was taken on Taylorsville Road near Watterson Trail. Admittedly, I was stumped, too. Here’s the next photo, let’s try again with guesses in the comments.
Broken Sidewalk is stationed in Louisville this week, and there should be quite a few updates with photos of current projects under construction around town. We’ll start with a few this afternoon.
Local News
- Bridges project ‘negotiating team’ appointed by Abramson, Beshear (Biz First)
- Whose members are charged with ‘destroying downtown Louisville’ (Fat Lip)
- Lawsuit could be brought over city’s ‘audit’ of Cordish spending (Ville Voice)
- Butchertown’s ‘pig-truck-wash’ will reopen, stop dumping manure into creek (C-J)
- BOZA says Wayside can talk to city planners about Broadway location (C-J)
- Hopes to open in new location by this winter (Fox 41)
- The Pour Haus bar & music venue closes in Germantown (Backseat Sandbar)
- FB3 Dev food & beverage incubator appears to have closed (Whitewashed Windows)
- Someone stole a Jeffersonville neighborhood’s concrete pig ‘mascot’ (N & T)
- National Geographic loves the Kentucky Bourbon Trail (Biz First)
Transportation
- Copenhagen planning to build a series of ‘bike superhighways’ (Copenhagenize)
- On Portland’s (OR) bike friendliness & how it got that way (Boston Globe via @OtisWhite)
- San Francisco unveils solar powered ‘smart’ bus shelters (Architect’s Newspaper)
- How can Americans be encouraged to bike to work? (Slate)
- You can’t build a Spaghetti Junction big enough that will protect against this (C-J)
- Kentucky a progressive transportation ‘obstructionist’ (the transport politic)
- Fuel efficiency for semis has remained stagnant for decades (New Scientist)
- These ‘bridges in backpacks’ are simply amazing (Infrastructurist)
Everything Else
- Homebuyers are willing to spend more to live in walkable neighborhoods (Grist)
- Study: In tough economy, usage of city parks increases (City Parks via P-zen)
- Neighborhood corner stores improve walkability, fight global warming (Grist)
- America must continue to make things in the new industrial city (New Geography)
- On the changing notions & values of homeownership and renting (WSJ via @OtisWhite)
- Should we let kids roam around the city by themselves? (ChiTri via @OtisWhite)
- New Jersey considering $400M plan to preserve farmland (NJ.com via @urbanophile)
- At least Lou’s flash flood sewer geysers weren’t quite this bad (Youtube via @bldgblog)
- We’re using a lot less coal nationally, down to 42.6% (Grist)
- Do Americans need more paid vacation time? (World Changing)
Another side walk to nowhere.
I’m actually in Copenhagen now. It is amazing seeing the bikes here. They all have wide, dedicated lines on both sides of the street, just as if it were another lane for a car. They have their own stop lights, and are treated exactly like cars, so everyone follows the same rules. The bikes stop on red lights, and the cars yield to bikes when turning. I’m in awe.