Micro lofting: Gahan campaign donors delayed in work on city-subsidized Lancaster Lofts.

Just a bit of useful background.

Our diamond-encrusted mayor giggles with giddy delight while accepting donations from each entity connected with the Lancaster Lofts project.

Nice building in Providence RI. What's it have to do with Market & Vincennes?

Lancaster Lofts: How many square feet in a micro loft? 260? 400? We're about to find out.

Lancaster-themed "Micro Lofts" soon will inhabit Duggins' anchor wasteland at the corner of Market and Vincennes.

Now a whole new round of obligatory campaign finance tithes can begin.

Work on Lancaster Lofts project in New Albany delayed, by John Boyle (Hanson's Folly)

... The 56-unit complex is expected to cost between $4.5 million and $5 million to build. The main style of the units will be micro-lofts, comprising roughly 300 square feet, with rent prices ranging from $550 to $850.

Once the construction process begins, it's expected to last eight to 10 months.

"We're still excited about it," Barber said. "We didn't anticipate all the delay, but we're looking forward to it. It's going to be good for the city. People are anxious, and we realize that."

The predicted gutting of Speck begins as Mayor Jeff Gahan gives the finger to complete streets advocates.

If you'd like to see complete streets on your lifetime, removing Jeff Gahan from office has become the sole option.

Firm hired to provide options for changing New Albany street grid, by Daniel Suddeath (News and Tribune)

NEW ALBANY — New Albany will likely take at least six more months to decide upon any changes to the street grid in downtown and the surrounding neighborhoods.

The New Albany Board of Public Works and Safety approved a contract Tuesday to hire the Scottsburg firm HWC Engineering. The firm will review planner Jeff Speck’s proposal for changing the street grid, as well as input received by the public during three meetings earlier this year, and provide three options for the city consider.

It’s expect the conceptual design will take at least six months to prepare. If the city elects to move forward with one of the options, the project engineering is estimated to take up to another year to prepare.

Matt surveys INDOT's "bridge to nowhere."

You can almost see INDOT scratching its turbo-powered head, muttering: "Whass them pad-estrians want, aneeway ... the hole damn werld?"

NASH: Our ‘bridge to nowhere’, by Matt Nash (N and T)

During the 2008 presidential election “the bridge to nowhere” got a lot of press. The Alaskan bridge that hundreds of millions of federal dollars were earmarked for became the poster child for pork barrel spending.

Fast forward a few years and the citizens of Southern Indiana and Louisville have been sitting around waiting for the completion of the Big Four Bridge which has been a literal “Bridge to Nowhere.”

Here's the takeaway, one that most driving commuters never stop to consider.

Most people don’t realize it but hundreds of people utilize the Clark Memorial Bridge to get to work on a daily basis. Whether walking or riding a bike you can see people on the span at all hours of the day whether for exercise or for their basic transportation needs. Without a way to cross the Ohio River many people will not be able to make it to their jobs for several weeks without being able to utilize the Big Four Bridge.

As though INDOT would consider any non-automotive conveyance, whether a bicycle or one's own feet, as constituting "transportation."