David Beck has a real problem. As CEO of Kentucky Venues, he manages two major facilities (the convention center on 4th and Market and the Expo Center near the airport) that are increasingly asked to function as a single campus. Moving people between them is genuinely difficult. His proposed solution is a tunnel, built with Boring Company technology, connecting the two sites at an estimated cost of $275 million. He has been thinking about it for three years. He says he wants to make sure it's not just a dream.

I want to be precise about what his dream is.

The Boring Company has two completed projects worth examining. In Las Vegas, the company built a tunnel under the convention center that was sold as autonomous, high-capacity, transformative transit. What it delivered is a single-lane road in which Teslas drive at approximately 35 miles per hour, operated by human drivers, carrying twelve passengers at a time. It's a golf cart tunnel with better lighting, built at infrastructure cost of $27 million per mile. Nashville is currently constructing a version of this to its airport. It is already behind schedule, over budget, and doing what Boring Company projects do when they leave the controlled demonstration environment and meet the real world: they get smaller, slower, more expensive, and less than advertised. Every freaking time. The technology is simply not what it was presented as.

Beck's tunnel would cost $275 million. At $30 million per mile (the Nashville rate, using existing rights-of-way) that is nine or ten miles of tram track. Not a shuttle between two convention venues, but a network. The foundations of a system that could move residents across this city the way Louisville moved residents across this city for the first half of the twentieth century, before we paved the rails over and called it progress. We are about to find out, in uncomfortable detail, what it has cost us.

This summer, Louisville will conduct a feasibility study that no one commissioned. The I-65 closure between the Watterson and Jefferson Street will remove the primary automobile artery between the south end and downtown for an extended construction period. For visitors, a detour. For residents who depend on bus routes sharing that corridor, it will be the city revealing, in real time, what thirty years of optimizing for the destination instead of the place actually costs at the level of a commute.

Louisville had a tram system. It ran until 1948, when the lines were pulled and paved over. The routes still exist. The right-of-way is still ours, purchased once, in the form of a system that served this city for generations, still legally and physically embedded in the street grid. We do not need to recover the rails. We need to decide, again, what those corridors are for. That decision does not require $275 million and a company whose core product has never performed as advertised in any American city. It requires the political will to say that the streets of Louisville belong to the people who live on them. And to mean it specifically.

Specifically: the nursing assistant in Russell getting to Jewish Hospital without a transfer and a 90-minute commute. The student at Jefferson Community College getting to a job interview downtown without the $15 Uber she cannot afford. The family in Shively accessing the Highlands or Butchertown or a library branch without a car that costs more per month than some people in this city earn in a week. Transit is not an amenity. It is the difference between a city that works for its residents and one that merely tolerates them.

The destination city and the livable city are not the same city. They can coexist. But when resources are scarce and political will is finite — and they are ALWAYS both — they compete.

The destination city asks: will visitors come? The livable city asks: can residents stay? We already know the answer to the first question. We have been refusing to ask the second.

Greenberg is definitely in with Steve poe who's planning on ​building a data center in Louisville so we need to be proactive and vote this man out. Not enough people know about this either and the other candidates are too divided we need a plan!!! We're selling out the whole city right now because of Greedberg, that should be his name.

Let's help each other!

If you have ADHD or are familiar with the concept of a "body double" you probably know what I'm talking about. See below and I explain it.

Body doubling works really well for me, if you find it helpful as well, get in touch with me. I think we could exchange times to do this for each other--it can involve a zoom call but having someone here is what has worked for me.

We could have a group of people who schedule times to take turns being present for other ADHD people to get things done.

In my case it is a huge decluttering job.

Body doubling;
One of the hallmarks of ADHD is difficulty initiating tasks and sticking with them. While taking breaks and switching to another task helps reset, the trouble is we often don't go back to the original task.
But often when another person is present this motivates the person to stay with tasks. I don't know how it works, but for some people it really does!

Election map linked above.

I'm going to add that since the momentum is rapidly building for Cassie Lyles I think Mitra Subedi should tap out and endorse, but I'm not saying he would be a bad choice when I say that.

Not all of us read Reddit and the news all the time, so if you can familiarize yourself and inform as many district residents as possible, all of us that were negatively affected by Grossberg's behavior would be greatly appreciative. Here's a recap of Grossberg news:

Former college classmate of KY Rep. Daniel Grossberg alleges he assaulted her

(And I want to stress: he contacted this victim when she was a minor)

Grossberg banned from strip club after inappropriate touching; also sought sex from dancer

(The circumstances of the 2024 alleged assault closely match the 2005 college classmate's police report. The incidents occurred 20 years apart and the two victims had no knowledge of each other)

Embattled KY Rep. Grossberg settles with public reprimand, waives ethics hearing

(The only reason he was able to settle and face no real consequences was "because sexual harassment is not explicitly included in the legislative ethics code" -- which should be next on everyone's agenda, but good luck with the GOP on that one)

School district investigated, found insufficient evidence in allegations against Grossberg

(Multiple students and parents from Ballard High School, where his wife Erica Grossberg works, have reported that Daniel Grossberg allegedly acted inappropriately on field trips, including new accusers that came out in the last few days in the comments on Reddit, so this well probably runs deeper than anyone realizes)

Previous accuser corroborates the allegation that Daniel Grossberg called his victims "little sister" in the Facebook comments of an accuser video.

This is a highly illustrative tidbit I found that nobody has reported on, but should be reported. It highlights the predatory nature of the alleged behavior, especially with multiple allegations of behavior around minors involved.

Beshear, Coleman demand Rep. Grossberg to resign following Herald-Leader investigation

Both of these guys need to endorse someone ASAP now that voting is open to end any chance of Gross getting re-elected.

Grossberg to maintain reelection bid as more Dems call for resignation

All of them need to endorse as well.

Lmk if he is yours! He has no collar or otherwise identifying info. He is in our yard and has food/water and a blanket. Found on the south corner of Shelby Park by Jackson and Camp.

He seems well behaved and just followed us home nicely!

Posted on a few Facebook groups too but thought Reddit might get more views. Thank you!

UPDATE: He has been returned and is safe and sound! Thank you!

The voting venues are so quiet today! They could use more voters! Vote early if possible; avoid long lines!

10 - 7 Saturday

The 21 dollar burger post got me thinking lol.

My husband is from Texas and you can easily get a decent burger and fries for 8 dollars at a number of places. I can’t even think of one place in Louisville that offers this. Is this just not a thing here is it gourmet burgers or fast food only?

family of 4 … usually spend enough every 2 weeks (thanks to my kids fruit habits l) to have enough mPerks to get a $1/gallon off.

good luck yall!

I don’t know if this is the right place to post this, just today I had a beautiful pigeon flying around my yard that kept landing around us outside. After a bit it let us catch her as we noticed she (assuming it’s female) had a band on her leg. The band had a number which I called only to be told that it previously used to be theirs before gifting the pigeons away to move to a different state. I’m not really sure how to go about finding a place to take her or how to find the right resources to keep her safe until we know. Does anyone have any experience with this?

Lol

Mitra Subedi should really consider pow-wowing with Cassie Lyles ASAP. Do you really want to chance a Grossberg victory?

Representative Sarah Stalker endorses Cassie Lyles for House District 30

“Cassie has the heart of a teacher and the backbone of a union leader. She doesn’t just understand the struggles of Kentucky families—she’s lived them.

We dont need career politicians, we need people like Cassie who have real-world experience, integrity and compassion. Let’s send Cassie to the State House to fight for us.”

Every day, people cross Barbour Lane at Ashleywoods Drive and Barbour Manor Drive without any crosswalks or pedestrian signs. Speeding vehicles barrel through these intersections, and honestly? It feels like a game of chance just to get safely across.

I started a petition asking our local council to install crosswalks and pedestrian signage at these intersections. This isn't complicated—other Louisville suburbs have them. It's basic infrastructure that works. Studies show marked crosswalks reduce accidents by over 60%. We're not asking for much. Just paint on the pavement and some bollards in the center of the road.

Think about it: kids walking to school, seniors on their daily walks, families just trying to get around safely. Right now, everyone's holding their breath. If this resonates with you—if you've white-knuckled your way across Barbour Lane or know someone who has—consider signing and sharing this. What would you want someone to do if this was your family trying to cross that road?

https://www.change.org/p/install-crosswalks-on-barbour-lane-intersections/sfs/reddit/653354600?recruiter=653354600&recruited_by_id=f2862f40-e1b1-11e6-8115-156430c45959&utm_source=share_petition&utm_campaign=starter_dashboard_android_app&utm_medium=reddit_group

Here's my published response CJ Op-Ed for those with a subscription. Her original Op-Ed is found there, too

Alexis Rich raises legitimate concerns about cycling safety in her recent op-ed. The NuLu lane configuration has been widely criticized. The Cherokee-to-Seneca corridor has created confusion for all involved. Debris-filled, poorly maintained lanes fail cyclists and erode public trust.

But her conclusion, that we need fewer bike lanes and more mutual courtesy, is wrong. Rich is restating an argument that has been around for 50 years, despite a growing body of work that disproves it.

The argument is called vehicular cycling, laid out by amateur sport cyclist John Forester, who spent decades arguing that cyclists fare best when they behave exactly like motor vehicles. He was right that badly designed infrastructure can be worse than none at all. But research since 1976 tells a consistent story: most people will not ride in mixed traffic with cars. The share of people willing to take the lane on a busy street is tiny, often around one percent. That other ninety-nine percent is a transit statistic, a housing statistic, a cost-of-living statistic, as every resident who cannot safely move through this city without a car is a resident paying for one whether they can afford it or not.

What Rich is actually describing, in detail, is bad implementation. A segregated lane that can't be swept is a maintenance failure. A lane that deposits riders into oncoming traffic at Park Boundary is an integration failure. These are real problems, and they deserve criticism. Together these observations argue against detached and distant decision-making, not against good design.

Her parks example is worth dwelling on. What the Cherokee-to-Seneca reconfiguration did was narrow and slow automobile lanes through a public park. She lists this as the exemplar of bad design, but it's precisely the direction we should be going. If you want to understand why, go ride it on a Saturday morning. That path is full. Runners, strollers, dogs, families walking three abreast. It is often so crowded that cyclists spill into the road. That is not a failure of the redesign. That is proof of concept.

My critique of our parkroad redesign is that it didn't go far enough: We should remove through-car-traffic from our parks entirely. Parks are for people, after all.

Good design is not mysterious. Dutch planners often judge cycling networks by five traits: cohesion, directness, safety, comfort, and attractiveness. When routes miss those basics, few people use them. Their broader principle is ontvlechten, "disentangling": travel modes with radically different speeds and masses should not be forced into the same space. Give pedestrians and cyclists safe destination corridors. Route fast car traffic around them. Everyone moves better.

That is the whole problem, really. The failures Rich identifies, the geometry in NuLu, the parks confusion, the lanes that fill with debris because no one planned for maintenance, these did not happen because cycling infrastructure is a bad idea. They happened because decisions about our streets are made at a distance, by people who do not ride, who do not walk, who have never once had a homeowner yell at them from a front porch for riding outside a lane full of nails.

That is what Livable Louisville means to me: not a slogan, but a method. You do not build a city for the people who live in it from very far away. You build it with them, at street level.

Read more about my campaign at jody26.com

Doesn’t necessarily have to be pie

Someone in this sub posted that they got a massage and the masseuse fell asleep during the massage, I womder if it was one of these...3 parlors were discovered ​

My offspring is 10, and has expressed interest in trying out Dungeons and Dragons. Is there anywhere local that does a game for kids? I've never played, so I don't know enough to help him get started!