Looking at the above photo I live to the right, just outside the picture. I work and “play” as they say to the left, a bit farther outside the picture. In the bottom right is one of the most dangerous expressway to surface road interchanges in the city as the looping exit ramps keep automobile traffic on the high end and it is a bit unpleasant to ride through to say the least. That pretty red, yellow and orange loop doesn’t do a lot to help myself and many others ride their bikes to work. However, it’s damn fine for the weekend warriors. Great work Louisville. You’re really setting a benchmark in recreational pedestrian and bicycling facilities. $14.7 million worth.
Here’s the highlights:

• Building walking trail at A.B Sawyer Park, $616,000. The path would start at Whipps Mills Road in Lyndon and meander to near Hurstbourne Parkway. The path would be known as the A.B. Sawyer Greenway.
• Seneca Loop extension $988,350. This project, creating 40 jobs, will provide a 3.9 mile trail loop for pedestrians and bicycles in Seneca Park and around Bowman Field.
• Louisville Loop, $687,500. This project will repair a slope failure on the existing trail adjacent to Shawnee Golf Course and create as many as 35 jobs.
• Neighborhoods sidewalk construction and repair, $7.4 million. Abramson and his “Louisville At Work” team, in consultation with the Metro Council, will determine where to build and repair sidewalks. The projects could create up to 620 jobs.
• Resurfacing 70 miles of streets, $5,500,000. The “Louisville At Work” team will help determine which roads get priority paving. This could create as many as 600 jobs.
• Installation of bicycle lanes along Taylorsville Road from McMahan to Hurstbourne, $88,000 and creating 8 jobs

Can we please get the mayor’s chubby ass along with these other bureaucratic sheep out on bikes in real traffic for a couple days and then have them consider where $14.7 million might help?

There are people being killed out there - fuck recreation.