Showing posts with label Bridges Project. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bridges Project. Show all posts
Wednesday, July 17, 2013

Justin Suer fluffs the usual "economic development" suspects as 1Si sniggers in delight.

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Here's a fun activity: See if you can find a single reference to indie business, or new/local economies in this piece. Then again, as ...
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Thursday, May 17, 2012

Are complete streets an effective defense against negative Bridges impacts in New Albany? The feds seem to think so.

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In urging New Albany's Common Council to join Jeffersonville and Clarksville in passing a no tolls, East End Bridge focused resolution ...
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Monday, May 14, 2012

REWIND: Dear Ed.

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As relevant today as it was when originally written by the New Albanian in December, 2010, with one addendum: Clere recently commented on to...
Tuesday, May 08, 2012

Ohio River Bridges: A reporter gets to work and the numbers start to unravel.

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After years of baseless editorializing to the contrary, the Courier-Journal takes what for the Gannett paper is a major journalistic step fo...
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Thursday, April 26, 2012

Marohn: "We built places that rocked back when we had to build them to be financially sound."

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"Chuck Marohn, the executive director of Strong Towns , explains the difference between a road, which is a connection to two places an...
Monday, April 23, 2012

Ohio River Bridges: It just keeps getting better. (updated)

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From Chapter 5 , page 43 of the newly released ORBP Supplemental Final Environmental Impact Statement: "Based on the vehicle user co...
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Wednesday, April 18, 2012

Ohio River Bridges: Calculating jobs with calculating people.

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So the bridges honchos released their new economic impact study and most of it's not surprising: a) a majority of the "positive...
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Tuesday, March 13, 2012

A 19th century plan would be better. We were building mass transit then.

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As Neighborhood Planning and Preservation of Kentuckiana said on Facebook: LUNACY ALERT: For most of the 21st century, Kentucky and Southe...
Friday, March 09, 2012

We couldn't lose any better if we tried.

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Anyone paying attention to local Bridges Project inanity is probably aware that the Bridges Authority has successfully maintained its .000 b...
Friday, November 18, 2011

Doomed to dependence on automobiles and foreign oil. That's some way to live.

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If all the pain and agony surrounding the ORBP genuinely purports to address any semblance of what the Louisville area's transportation ...
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Monday, October 31, 2011

ORBP: "We need an affordable solution that does not include tolls."

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(submitted) Tolls are still in the plan - CJ: "Bridge planners assuming higher tolls on East End bridge" "...The authority e...
Friday, September 09, 2011

No2BridgeTolls.org reminds us: "Tolls still on the table."

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(From No2BridgeTolls.org) Tolls still on the table The Ohio River Bridges Authority will be selecting a method of building the bridges in Oc...
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Sunday, September 04, 2011

I always knew the Bridges Politburo had no intention of conducting an economic impact study.

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As Matt pointed out on Twitter, publishing this story on a holiday weekend doesn't seem to be the optimal way for the C-J to assure re...
Monday, August 29, 2011

One bridge? No tolls? No kidding.

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The obvious is just as obvious when written down in the permanent record, especially the Bridges Politburo doing exactly what's expecte...
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Sunday, August 28, 2011

Two in the eye for 1Si.

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Does the man on the left look familiar? It's One Southern Indiana's former president Michael Dalby, who now holds the same positio...
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Friday, August 26, 2011

Fetter: "Clere should represent the will of the people, business, and local government entities (as to) how tolling will negatively affect them."

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Paul Fetter responds to "Dave" on the OSIN thread mentioned yesterday , and we thank him for his valuable input, seeing as no one...
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Thursday, August 25, 2011

ON THE AVENUES: A multiplicity of toxicity.

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ON THE AVENUES: A multiplicity of toxicity. A weekly web column by Roger A. Baylor. It’s been almost exactly one year since the infamo...
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Urbanophile: "How big a boondoggle does a highway project have to be...?"

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This bit of commentary comes from Southern Indiana native and well-recognized urban development consultant Aaron Renn, aka the Urbanophile ,...
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Wednesday, August 17, 2011

Beyond the Bridges Project, Part 2.

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If Kentuckiana ever decides to pursue transportation solutions, Streetfilms has done us a favor with its 10-part video series, "Moving...
Monday, August 15, 2011

Beyond the Bridges Project, Part 1.

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If Kentuckiana ever decides to pursue transportation solutions, Streetfilms has done us a favor with its 10-part video series, "Moving...