CycLOUvia is coming to Bardstown Road this coming Sunday October 14.

Here's the background of this car-free experiment, courtesy of the Consuming Louisville blog.

I remember sitting in Heine Brothers at Douglass Loop nearly 4 years ago with Branden from Broken Sidewalk talking about turning Bardstown Road into an automobile-free zone for a day, modeling the cyclovia concept that cities around the world use. I was skeptical that it would ever happen here, we love us some cars on Bardstown Road but my skepticism was misplaced, it’s happening! On Sunday October 14, 2012 from 2PM-6PM Bardstown Road/Baxter Avenue from Douglass Loop to Broadway is going to be free of cars, trucks and buses and filled with bikes, pedestrians, rollerbladers, baby strollers, etc. Because we like to put Lou in any word we can the event is being called cycLOUvia.

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Urban outliers: Local businesses brace for new Urban Outfitters on Bardstown Road, by Joe Sonka (LEO Weekly)

Tucked away in the back of the lot at Tyler Park Plaza, Highland Coffee Company has been a successful locally owned business on Bardstown Road for more than a decade, serving organic fair trade coffee and gluten-free desserts to their loyal customers in the Highlands since 1999.

But their large sign on Bardstown Road — guiding customers to the store not visible from the road — has been taken down and replaced by the new tenants next door, who now fill the space previously occupied by Blockbuster Video.

Urban Outfitters — the popular corporate chain of retail stores specializing in hipster kitsch for a young demographic with disposable income — recently signed a lease with the landlord giving them the full rights to signage to go along with their name wrapping around three walls of the building. They are set to open later this month.