by Bike Courier | Feb 13, 2014 | News
Once again, with a mouth full of words about our local economy, Greg Fischer gives our tax dollars to out-of-town (out-of-touch) consultants. This latest design consultant proposes we erect a costly (to design/build/operate/maintain) ferris wheel on the Riverwalk when Louisville already has a ferris wheel at the fairgrounds (ask them about maintenance costs). In September 2012 Jackie Green of Bike Couriers Bike Shops began lobbying for the opening of the K&I bridge to human powered transportation. See: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Louisville-Full-Moon-Bike-Ride/280337165413233 He assembled a team of local engineers, local landscape architects, local urban planners and local designers who volunteered to work on the K&I project and the Riverwalk that links Louisville to the K&I bridge. Metro did not respond to their offer. It became clear that the owner of the K&I bridge, Norfolk Southern Railroad, was not going to open the bridge to the public until Louisville committed to a first class Riverwalk. Green published a critique of Fischer’s lack of commitment to the Riverwalk in Insider Louisville. See: http://insiderlouisville.com/news/2013/12/30/tale-two-bridges/ The last sentences of that article apply equally well to the Riverwalk. Keep the park elegantly simple, commit (as opposed to plan and then shelve the plan – remember the light rail plans?), be transparent. Oh, and Greg, if you are going to talk about local, act on it....
by Bike Courier | Feb 11, 2014 | News
Mayor Greg Fischer!! According to Metro Public Works, Louisville has 3047 lane miles of road. Greg Fischer has touted 28 lane miles, costing $300,000 for bike lane stripping as “major evidence of sustainability”. On a road percentage basis that’s 28 / 3047, which is less than one percent. On a budget basis is far worse $300,000/$528,000,000 = 0.0006 and that’s 0.06%. “Major evidence of sustainability”. Really? Do any of our lanes look like these? http://sf.streetsblog.org/2010/05/10/san-francisco-gets-its-first-green-bike-lanes-on-market-street...
