Broken Sidewalk

The Second Broken Sidewalk Give-Away Contest results are in. Two lucky winners have been drawn at random to receive two tickets each to an upcoming showing of My So-Called So-Called Life presented by the Walden Theater at the Kentucky...

Portland (OR) congressman praises bikes (NY Times via TreeHugger) Pittsburgh sees its future growth driven by transit (Post-Gazette via Planetizen) How the suburbs are evolving their relationship with the city (Courant via Planetizen) Crime spree on West Main Street targets cars (Fox...

Transportation Issues Transit will determine the success of cities (Citiwire via Planetizen) These trains go really, really fast (TreeHugger) Development & Real Estate More trouble for the shotgun house on Campbell Street (Butchertown Blog) Remember when it was to be torn down, then saved?...

That's right. It's time for the second Broken Sidewalk giveaway contest. The Walden Theatre will be presenting My So-Called So-Called Life  at the MeX Theater in the Kentucky Center beginning next Thursday and we want to give you tickets to...

Whoa, another coal ash pond spill in Alabama (TreeHugger) Reminding us that cheap energy has great costs (H-L) But how viable is the future of coal anyway? (TreeHugger) Watch the animated spread of Walmart over America since the 1960s (FlowingData via LWB) Study...

Transportation Issues TARC wins, Miller loses, UofL keeps its shuttle (C-J) Avoiding throwing good money after bad on highway expansion (StreetsBlog) Harrods Creek Bridge widening set for march (C-J) You live in a city, you can't hide from traffic, get over it (gates...

Whew! We're back. A little later than anticipated, but it's water under the bridge now. We've got a lot to cover to catch up with 2009, so we're starting things off with a fairly massive news roundup of articles...

Here's our last post for 2008, we hope you all have a good new year and we'll see you back again next week. Transportation Issues Fewer drivers means drop in traffic fatalities (WFPL) Obama's road stimulus plan facing money problems (NPR) Libraries Libraries scale...

Transportation Issues TARC puts together an instructional video on how to use the bus system (TARC via C-J) But it falls far, far behind the TARC "bike-rack-rap" video from earlier this year (Broken Sidewalk) Rail and transit may be lagging behind in...