http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Meanwhile in Louisville en Sun, 17 May 2026 19:26:33 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11679#post-133657 Thu, 21 Nov 2013 00:35:24 +0000 Snowy 133657@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"It was reduced from an original width of 23 lanes to 18 because of funding issues. But even at 18 lanes, it will be a 325-foot wide expanse, slicing through downtown neighborhoods."</p> <p>Just..wow. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11679#post-133652 Wed, 20 Nov 2013 23:49:12 +0000 Colonies_Chris 133652@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>You were misinformed, I think. There are regular trains to Oakland, just across the bay from SF - you get a connecting bus or BART to get into central SF.</p> <p>The Louisville story seems to belong to a roadbuilding era that we might have thought was long past. In SF, after public outcry as long ago as the 1960s, a lot of proposed freeways were cancelled, the freeway along the waterfront was cancelled after only a short section had been built, and eventually that and quite a lot of other sections of elevated freeway were torn down completely. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11679#post-133639 Wed, 20 Nov 2013 21:42:21 +0000 Nelly 133639@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Only in the US of A.</p> <p>I remember asking our host when we stayed just outside Sacramento how easy it would be to get a train to San Francisco (which was the next leg of our honeymoon).</p> <p>She laughed and said Americans dont get trains, the trains just dont go where you want to go (!), I dont think I even know if there is a train station in Sacramento that connects to central San Fran.</p> <p>I asked a few more people and got lots of laughs.</p> <p>I wouldnt be laughing if that freeway section in your link was built round here. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11679#post-133630 Wed, 20 Nov 2013 21:05:26 +0000 chdot 133630@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="http://dc.streetsblog.org/2013/11/20/grassroots-efforts-crushed-by-louisvilles-2-6-billion-bridge-boondoggle" rel="nofollow">http://dc.streetsblog.org/2013/11/20/grassroots-efforts-crushed-by-louisvilles-2-6-billion-bridge-boondoggle</a></p> <p>More Glasgow than Embra. </p>