Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Kentucky

Kentucky Mom Prevails Against Cops Who Criminalized Her Bike Commute

By Angie Schmitt | Apr 30, 2014 | 106 Comments

This week in Kentucky, a judge held up the right of a single mom to ride her bike to work, after she was ticketed three times by local law enforcement for “reckless driving.” The defendant, Cherokee Schill, told Jessamine County Judge Janet Booth that she bike commutes 18 miles to her job at an auto […]

Grassroots Efforts “Crushed” by Louisville’s $2.6 Billion Bridge Boondoggle

By Angie Schmitt | Nov 20, 2013 | 34 Comments

At $2.6 billion, the Ohio River Bridges project in Louisville, Kentucky, is the costliest in the state’s history. It includes 18 elevated lanes, two enormously expensive bridges, a mammoth raised interchange, and a $225 million tunnel under an undeveloped suburban property (“Indiana’s Big Dig“). For years, Louisville residents J.C. Stites and Tyler Allen fought for […]

UPDATE: Here We Go Again: Sen. Rand Paul Pits Bikes Against Bridges

By Tanya Snyder | Jul 24, 2013 | 13 Comments

Rand Paul is at it again. Last year, Sen. Paul (R-KY) made a laughingstock of himself by alleging that the Transportation Enhancements program — which largely funds bicycle and pedestrian improvements — was used for things like “turtle tunnels and squirrel sanctuaries and all this craziness.” His statements had no basis in fact, but that […]

McClatchy Muckrakers Expose Seedy Underbelly of the Highway Bonanza

By Tanya Snyder | Feb 12, 2013 | 13 Comments

The work of a sustainable transportation reporter can be a lonely lot. But it’s a lot less lonely now that two McClatchy reporters, Curtis Tate and Greg Gordon, have taken up the mantle of exposing wasteful road expansion. With their far-reaching and well-researched three-part series, published last Sunday, Tate and Gordon brought stories of highway […]

Louisville Doubles Down on Disruptive Downtown Highway

By Angie Schmitt | Sep 27, 2012 | 6 Comments

Louisville, Kentucky, is, by all accounts, a city with a lot of potential. An old river city, it has a wealth of beautiful, historic architecture. It’s mid-sized, but large enough to have some good urban amenities. It’s affordable, with a downtown waterfront and some unique cultural charms. As the New York Times said in its […]

States Already Licking Their Chops Over Newly “Flexible” Bike/Ped Funds

By Tanya Snyder | Jul 10, 2012 | 5 Comments

Just days after Congress passed a bill allowing states to spend funds supposedly designated for biking and walking on completely unrelated projects, transportation officials are already circling like vultures over that money. An AP story from Covington, Kentucky on Sunday quotes several transportation officials and executives parroting the GOP line that transportation enhancements funding, as that […]

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