Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Louisville

Parking Madness: Louisville vs. Troy

By Angie Schmitt | Mar 28, 2016 | 10 Comments

So far Streetsblog readers have voted on seven head-to-head matchups in our 2016 Parking Madness tournament. Soon we’ll be down to the Elite Eight of parking craters. (You can still vote in the Long Beach vs. Muncie poll, which we’re extending to account for the holiday weekend in California.) But first, there’s one more pair of asphalt horrors in the running […]

Kentucky Threatens 17 Louisville Street Trees, Citing Safety [Updated]

By Angie Schmitt | Dec 17, 2014 | 2 Comments

Here’s a classic story of traffic engineering myopia. Officials at the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet are threatening to remove 17 newly planted street trees in a Louisville suburb. As reported by Next City and Louisville’s Courier-Journal, the trees had been selected and planted in part to ameliorate the area’s growing urban heat island problem. Louisville has lost 9 […]

Crime Drops on Louisville Streets Converted From One-Way to Two-Way

By Angie Schmitt | Jun 17, 2014 | 3 Comments

Converting fast-moving one-way streets to calmer two-way corridors may make them safer in more ways than one, according to a study by John Gilderbloom, a professor at the University of Louisville. Gilderbloom and a team of graduate students analyzed data from two Louisville streets that were recently converted from one-way to two-way operation. They compared the […]

UPDATE: Kentucky Reverses Course, Will Allow Pedestrians on Bridge

By Angie Schmitt | Mar 7, 2014

UPDATE (3:38 p.m. Friday March 7): The state of Kentucky announced today it will allow pedestrians on the Clark Memorial Bridge after all, according to media reports that came out shortly after this article was published. Officials have modified the construction plan to allow one sidewalk to remain open for the next few months. “We heard […]

“Elite Eight” Parking Madness: Louisville vs. Houston

By Angie Schmitt | Apr 2, 2013 | 2 Comments

NCAA basketball has nothing on the drama, the intrigue, the heartbreak of a competitive parking crater tournament. We’re now into the “Elite Eight” round of Parking Madness, and today’s winner will join Dallas in the Final Four. It’s going to be a fierce competition between Louisville and Houston. Louisville’s downtown, you’ll recall, looks like this: […]

Parking Madness: Louisville vs. San Diego

By Angie Schmitt | Mar 26, 2013 | 18 Comments

This week we’re really getting into the thick of our Parking Madness tournament, the hunt for the worst parking crater in an American downtown. Today’s match-up features a Kentucky river city that has done a number on its downtown and a California beach city with a weak spot for asphalt: It’s Louisville versus San Diego! […]

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