Congratulations to Dennis Langford, Michael, and Alexandra Crume for correctly identifying last Friday’s sidewalk photo as West Market Street between 25th and 26th Streets looking towards Downtown in the Russell neighborhood. Here’s a new sidewalk photo ready for guesses in the comments.
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Local News
- Frank Faris given extension to sell house before facing jail time (C-J, Wave 3)
- Check out some background info on the story from Broken Sidewalk
- Frankfort Avenue Beer Depot opening Bardstown Road location (lou.com, LHB)
- Cracker Barrel creating a chain vs local rift in downtown New Albany (NAC)
- More on New Albany’s Bicentennial public art campaign (N & T, NAC)
- Councilman wants to study merging suburban fire districts (Fox 41, WFPL, Mojo)
- Jeffersonville urban planning director, Jim Urban, resigns (C-J)
- Progress being made at the zoo’s polar bear exhibit (Fox 41)
- Sprawl watch: Jeffersonville building low density patio homes (N & T)
- Derby City Espresso had a ‘soft reopening’ on Wednesday (LHB)
- Derby Museum to reopen in April after flood damage renovations (C-J)
- Mayoral debate on Downtown issues set for Wednesday, Feb. 16 (LDMD)
- Meeting to discuss Tyler Park improvements set for Sunday, Jan 31 (lou.com)
Transportation
- New TARC bus route to connect to Bullitt county (C-J)
- New Albany seeks grants to fix four dangerous intersections (N & T)
- Cars and bikes really can coexist on Louisville roads (Mojo)
- This is what you might call a luxury bicycle (Mojo)
- Do mandatory helmet laws keep people from riding bikes? (Hard Drive)
- More teens waiting longer to get their driver’s license (GOOD)
- Subway system maps of the world drawn at the same scale (Fake is new real)
- Japanese companies want in on High Speed Rail and a fancy national map (WSJ)
- Luxury garages: these people really care about their cars (If it’s hip)
Everything Else
- Useful public art: bridge helps pedestrians over sidewalk sludge (Wooster)
- The un-green downside of public parks revealed (NY Times)
- New wind turbine design more efficient, uses jet engine tech (TreeHugger)
- Uncle Pennybags heads to the city in new Monopoly edition (Unbeige)
- Coal producing states advised to switch to other industries (C-J)
- U of L to switch to unsorted recycling for ease of use (U of L)
- Even the White House hurt in recession, loses $15.5M in value (Luxist)
- And a few flickr photos of the day here and here and here.
(Re)Announcement of funding for train initiative today:
http://www.tampabay.com/news/politics/national/obama-will-announce-funding-for-high-speed-rail-in-tampa/1068518
http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/09/04/16/A-Vision-for-High-Speed-Rail/
sunday’s discussion of tyler park improvements is sponsored by the neighborhood group, but metro parks’ public hearing/showing about the improvements to both tyler park and the hogan’s fountain area of cherokee are TONIGHT – thursday. this is the last of a series of public hearings so if anyone has comments, this is your chance.
Corner of S Shelby and E Madison. Phoenix Place Apts.
That’s an interesting article you posted about parks in S. California in the NYT. I have had a similar question regarding the wind turbines popping up all over the world which is, ‘How long does it take for a wind turbine to generate the amount of electricity that went into producing and transporting it?’. Google is letting me down on this one…
500 Block of S Shelby Street looking north towards Phoenix Place.
I knew it was Phoenix Place but I couldn’t place the exact intersection.