US traffic engineering/NHTSA want to believe they can achieve road safety without changing their priorities. So they point to countries that implemented vigorous engineering, regulatory and legal controls and say 'See, PSAs/education and PPE/high-viz are part of their approach.'

Excited to announce the Walkable Louisville Event with Jeff Speck on May 21st!
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Hey Louisville, we made a mistake with the bridges project and not removing I-64. Let’s fix that, other cities have done it. John Clay Stites

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Senate Minority Leader Gerald Neal says bills that disproportionately targeted Louisville were a theme: HB388, HCR 81, HB 136.

once again, its almost that special time of year where we burn thousands of pounds of toxic chemicals into the sky because 'tradition' 🎇🛩️🏇🌹

can someone make this Tudorized banger at 223 E. Broadway into a brewery/pub before it gets turned into a surface parking lot?

i could list out the top 100 places where we could have these in Louisville, then we could have city drop them off, and neighborhood association could fill and tend to the plantings... basically making a ton of intersections safer for an extremely tiny investment

not one US mayor is a climate leader

here's the template

copy it. steal it. implement it.

we can't wait any longer.

the faded old Diane's Louisville poster that's been junking up the Starks Building for over a decade has been replaced!

Homicides are plummeting.

In all 10 cities with the most 2023 homicides—for which we have data—homicides are falling. The pandemic crime wave is crashing hard.

If these percentage decline numbers were percentage growth numbers, it would be the lede of every cable news show—>

the older image is from that Louisville Kentucky's Past FB group... someone said its postcard from the 1960's

lol Louisville aka Boomer City 👴👵

Last month, I spoke with farmers all over Kentucky about some alarming numbers:

Between 2017-22, #Kentucky lost more than 5,600 family farms, and more than half a million acres of farmland.

Quick thread on my latest for Courier Journal:
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what if Louisville's vacant and abandoned skyscrapers could be rehabbed as experiments in vertical farming and urban heat island mitigation? 🤔

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Cincinnati Futures Commission report is out. Here's what the 34-person commission recommends:
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One thing that struck me as we heard more about what the commission heard from residents is how similar it is to what elected officials report they heard from constituents: They want more affordable housing and public safety very much includes pedestrian safety.

the long vacant AT&T tower, one of St. Louis' largest skyscrapers, recently sold for 3.5 million... in 2006 it was valued at $205 million

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Lots of Americans are googling 'Criminal Mischief' right now, thanks to Gersh Kuntzman's appearance on This American Life this morning. Here's a primer: nyc.streetsblog.org/2024/04/06/goo…

Alida Antonia John J. Guthrie Mike Dwyer There are 172 widening projects in the 6 year work plan.