Showing posts with label K and I Bridge. Show all posts
Showing posts with label K and I Bridge. Show all posts
Friday, March 29, 2019

Whither rails, trails and the CSX track from the K & I Bridge to Sazerac Indiana?

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For help in understanding the life and times of New Gahania, formerly known as New Albany, it helps to apply a sort of litmus test to a...
Thursday, December 27, 2018

Suburban gun sales quadruple as "Mayor Greg Fischer and Louisville waterfront officials say the time is right to renew the push for pedestrian and cycling access on the K&I Bridge."

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Here's the first reference to the K&I Bridge in this blog's 14-year history, occurring on February 10, 2005. Mayors unite...
Saturday, October 22, 2016

Reality in Memphis, impossible in Louisville: Cantilevered “wagonways” on an old bridge, adapted as shared-use paths.

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The cantilevered K & I, off-limits to non-trains.  To which I can respond in only one way: Nationalize the Norfolk Southern. Say...
Tuesday, February 09, 2016

K & I: It's like a litmus test for prejudice ... and it's got hazmat, too.

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It remains difficult to for me to fathom the disgruntlement in some quarters expressed at renewed calls for the K & I to be converted in...
Monday, February 08, 2016

Broken Sidewalk properly reiterates: "It’s time to open the K&I Bridge to pedestrians and cyclists."

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Their pearls of wisdom never cease. Broken Sidewalk echoes the WDRB piece by Marcus Green, referenced at NAC on February 1 . While l...
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Wednesday, February 03, 2016

I couldn't resist: Bernie or Hillary?

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Monday, February 01, 2016

A future K & I shared-use path? It's "not a priority for One Southern Indiana" unless Norfolk Southern can move the bridge to River Ridge.

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Marcus Green provides a comprehensive summary of the issues pertaining to the K & I Bridge, and its future adaptation as a shared-use...
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Wednesday, October 07, 2015

Bringing back Portland?

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An interesting photo essay about Portland:  Bringing Back Portland  at  Lending My Lens As noted in the past, the natural configuration of...
Monday, January 13, 2014

Green: "Committee seeking to re-open K&I bridge needs to get moving."

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To open a week that will see Jeff Speck visit New Albany, causing acid reflux amid the barren intellectual worldview of Bob Caesar, Jackie G...
Friday, June 07, 2013

Artisan Market to discontinue retail sales, but it isn't going away.

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Monthly trolley efforts aside, the Vincennes Street corridor now finds itself somewhat of a "tweener."  The revitalizing core is o...
Friday, April 26, 2013

“I think what’s going to give is (Norfolk Southern's) reluctance.”

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I've no idea whether the K & I resolution described below was passed, seeing as coverage of last night's Metro Council meetin...
Monday, March 11, 2013

K & I Bridge, in which we praise the virtues of condemnation.

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Reporter Sheldon Shafer's right on top of it at the Courier-Journal, as David Karem says aloud what so many of us remember hearing disc...
Monday, February 25, 2013

A report on the history of the K & I Bridge.

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At last Thursday's city council meeting, at which a resolution to "open" the K & I was approved unanimously, planner Scott...
Tuesday, February 12, 2013

Norfolk Southern the problem, hundreds of crowbars the answer.

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There remains only one reason why the K & I cannot be opened to non-motorized public access: The obstinacy of Norfolk Southern. Last w...
Monday, January 28, 2013

Update: Occupy the K & I.

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I've said for years that the only sure way to make this happen is to pry the K & I from the cold, dead hands of Norfolk Southern, an...
Sunday, January 13, 2013

K & I as pedway? First it must be pried from the cold dead hands of the railroad.

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Last week I received an e-mail from Louisville biking advocate Jackie Green, who has embraced the cause of K & I Bridge liberation. I...
Friday, August 10, 2012

Nash: "We need to ask the leaders of Norfolk Southern to take a closer look at this specific situation."

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And if asking doesn't work, there's another solution: Nationalize the railroads. NASH: Connecting our communities ... When you ...
Friday, July 27, 2012

Good news: Another Ohio Valley Greenway ribbon is cut.

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Matt Nash was on hand Wednesday morning for the dedication of the Greenway from 18th Street to Silver Creek: OHIO RIVER GREENWAY RIBBON CUTT...
Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Nationalize the railroad = K & I problem disappears.

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Since last week, there's a fresh asphalt ramp in place for the Greenway at 18th. It leads to the next stretch westward, as mentioned in ...
Tuesday, January 03, 2012

Serious mobility solution questions for Bridges Authority member Jerry Finn.

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In this morning's Courier-Journal , we learn that Mayor Greg Fischer of Louisville, a consistent advocate of the Ohio River Bridges P...
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