Transfers

Bridges to Nowhere

  • Jerry is shocked - shocked! - that River Fields would sue over the Ohio River Bridges - WFPL
  • Driving a freeway through your urban core causes 18% of the population to leave - Yglesias

Reminder: Ohio River Bridges would demolish large fractions of Butchertown. Will those displaced people move to an equivalent, low-energy place to live, or move further out where they'll clog up more roads and pollute more air? 

Bike/Ped

  • Walking, Biking, and Motoring in Indy surprisingly different from Louisville - Barry's Bike Blog
  • Find a buddy, ride to work: KIPDA launches bike pooling commuter software - Bike Louisville
  • "Guaranteed ride home" private insurance launches for cyclists, carpoolers, transit riders in CA - $25/year - Streetsblog
  • Sidewalk "pavement picasso" coming to Louisville - WFPL
  • New York's bike fashion craze - NYT
  • Bike couriers nationwide feel the pinch as even lawyers are catching on to this new-fangled 'email' thing - WaPo
  • Bicyclist Lane Position - "As far Right as Practicable" is in the eye of the beholder - Road Rights

Climate Chaos

  • Climate effects of boring building codes equal those of 100 new nuke plants - if it survives Congress - Grist
  • How vulnerable are we to rising oil prices? Kentucky and Indiana are among the most vulnerable - Watchdog Earth
  • Cash for Clunkers didn't work out so well - Streetsblog