Congrats to Patrick for correctly identifying yesterday’s sidewalk photo as Bonnycastle Avenue in the Deer Park neighborhood. Here’s a new photo ready for guesses. Also, I apologize if you were trying to contact me via phone in the last two days. AT&T’s network has apparently been overloaded in New York (and in Louisville, too, I read) and has not connected several calls. On with the news.
Local News
- 2015 Bonnycastle condos already filling with tenants (C-J)
- And more coverage of the project from Broken Sidewalk
- Brookings: Louisville economy remains weak in second quarter (Biz First)
- How can we make Louisville weirder than Austin? (Backseat Sandbar)
- Interfaith groups tour Rubbertown to view environmental need first hand (C-J)
- Virginia Ave. boarding school gets $100,000 in improvements from Lowe’s (C-J)
- Bon Air neighborhood to plant trees in Bardstown Road median (C-J)
- Grant helps fund 1.8 mile trail in east county for Louisville Loop (C-J)
- Neighbors say cars are causing problems for Willow Park concert series (C-J)
- Don’t forget about the Nulu East Market Festival September 26 (Page One)
Transportation
- Former River Fields director blasts group for ‘obstructionism’ (C-J)
- And some analysis on the anti-EE-Bridge-lawsuit brought by the group (8664)
- ORBP ‘negotiators’ approve bi-state bridge authority (WFPL)
- West Louisville’s geography, etc. make is a ‘cyclist’s dream’ (CART)
- Considering traffic calming and emergency response times (Sidewalk Starts)
- Chicago considers $40M elevated bike path along waterfront (Chi Biz via @urbanophile)
- Could this SF ped bridge proposal offer ideas for Big Four Bridge deck? (SB-SF)
Everything Else
- Density is green: cities better than suburbs for environment (Atlantic)
- And new book says if you drive to work, you could be greener (NY Times)
- Everyone loves David Byrne, City Planner (WSJ, The Edit, GOOD, TreeHugger)
- And he’s also got a new book on bicycling coming out soon (Reno Rambler via SB-net)
- On tourists, chain restaurants, and local culture (Governing, 13th Floor)
- Did you know the first sidewalk appeared in London in 1764? (Sidewalk Starts)
- 9 of 10 Brits say good architecture improves their lives (Architect’s Journal)
- Wouldn’t this iPhone app in Pittsburgh be great for Lou’s 311? (Engadget)
- How San Fran is using technology to green the city (CNN Money via @GenslerOnCities)
- Fed Chief Bernanke thinks the recession is over (C-J / AP)
- EPA to limit toxic chemicals emitted to waterways from coal plants (C-J / AP)
- Cities & the dirt underneath them store the world’s carbon (The Edit)
That is in Germantown on Reutlinger Avenue looking towards Oak Street.
That’s a photo of Reutlinger Ave, facing Oak Street.
Nick’s question on Backseat Sandbar is absolutely essential. When we can figure out what’s missing here that Austin has, we may be able to move forward. They have a bigger, better college (sorry, I’m a UL grad… but it’s true. When I graduated, UL was a a municipal college, unaffiliated with the state. It was a damn good school). They are a capitol city. The college and government mean they’re recession-proof and they have more than a modicum of smart people. If we don’t get more smart people, more immigrants, more weirdos we won’t make that leap. Our smart weirdos work their asses off trying to move us further, but we need help. Make UL and Bellarmine reach out, go the extra mile. Make even more rich smart people take chances… Gill Holland can’t do it all. Everyone go to the West End and visit and talk.
Talk. I’m tired of the coolness (read ‘chilliness,’ not ‘hipness’) of the smart people here – by ‘here’ I mean the internet cool folks.