Big 4 Pedestrian & Bicycle Bridge Public Meeting - Saturday!
UPDATE #2: Added some pictures from the meeting, click Read More to see them.
UPDATE: A bicycle convoy will leave from Louisville to get safely across the 2nd Street Bridge. Be ready to leave at 10:45am from in front of Bearno's by the Bridge (NE corner of Main and 2nd).
You are invited to the Big 4 Bridge public workshop on Saturday. According to the flyer "this will allow residents to share ideas with the City and design team as well as critique ideas and concepts that are developed through this project. Everyone is encouraged to attend and bring their neighbors and families to participate."
Saturday, June 6, 2009
130 W. Riverside Drive, Jeffersonville - Brad Sprigler Design Studio
11am - 1pm;
formal presentation will begin @ 11:30am
come and go as you like
Its obvious what a big deal the Big 4 bridge will be. But in case you live on the moon or something: Jeffersonville is a lovely town, no farther from my home than, say, St Matthews. However, to get to St Matthews is a simple bike ride. To get to Jefforsonville is a harrowing journey over the Clark Memorial "2nd street" Bridge. As a result, St Matthews gets hudreds of dollars a year in shopping revenue from me, and Jefforsnville gets none.
But if Jeffersonville could be connected by a bridge that weren't such an ordeal, say one leaving from the middle of a park, then it would suddenly become a viable destination for a lot of people.
Comments
This sort of collaborative vision is a model for effectiveness
Can you imagine if our world were based on this sort of interactive learning and values exploration... Diversity models and growth components which yeild the true buy-in and appreciation as a standing component of genuine expression are far and few between but I would love to see more of this. Thanks Forward for the essential progress inherent in the value of the product....
Collaborative Design
Impressive that HNTB might share initial designs in the free SketchUp model format (http://sketchup.google.com).
From what I understand they can:
Wow, haven't seen a group approach that level of 1) comfort (in their own intellectual capital) and 2) forward thinking in, well, a long time.
What a smart way to go about collaborative design ... Kudos HTNB!
Bridge Logo Fight NiGHT!
Nice frackin' logo. Its very creative, and I find myself staring at it. What do you think? Who's design-fu is stronger?:
Red, White, and Blue - Hey, maybe they're choosing that because its your patriotic duty to bankrupt your state and/or pay bridge tolls to the highway lobby for the rest of your life.
Like horrid flag bikinis - these colors are trying a little too hard to be mainstream, and that makes me suspicious. Are those curves fake?
Two identical bridges stand alone.
They are floating - on a sea of hype?
There is nothing worth seeing or remarking on at either end of these spans. Its road construction for the sake of road construction. We destroyed our downtown and our ecosystem so that we could build these arcs. There's nothing left to do in our former community but sit and stare at the two bridges, standing like the haunting stone heads of Easter Island, which were both a testament to, and the reason for, the destruction of the civilization.