Welcome
to Louisville where incompetent government leaders love to waste
money and do stupid things that end up costing more money. Dixie
Highway has been a mess for 25 plus years and they didn't really do
anything other than beautified it a little bit. Of course, its not
going to change the fact that Shively, PRP and Valley all have a
crime rate that is 3-5 times that of most of the rest of the
Louisville Metro depending on the area. I lived there earlier this
last decade and it was a mess then and its a mess now and frankly its
like putting lipstick on a pig.
Louisville government and largely Louisville society is like someone going to a bonfire and trying to urinate on it in order to get it put out. Half measures, government bureaucracy, poor planning, engineering snafus and lack of ability to have a vision or at least some strategic plan.
They want to make Dixie like Hurstbourne or another Shelbyville Road? Good luck on that because that's one of many things that have screwed up both stretches of those highways is over-development and lack of planning and thinking ahead. Back years ago, they put two malls on Shelbyville Road in the the mid to late 1960s and never envisioned that it would explode into the traffic fustercluck that it is now and Hurstbourne is the same way. Now in either one of those areas, you get to deal with Louisville's famously incompetent traffic management systems and get to sit at lights that aren't properly synchronized and haven't been since they were taken over in 2009.
Another Billy Bob mentality thing that Louisville did was to have the city of Louisville which was the old city area or properly called now Louisville Metro take over traffic management and road repairs and construction. Much that used to be under the purview of the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet under the state government. Instead, the city of LouBilly decided to take it all over on all of the State numbered routes of Louisville which comprise a great deal of roadways, highways, byways and 4 lane roads like Preston, Greenbelt, Dixie, Hurstbourne, Shelbyville etc...etc..etc.
They didn't have the quality of people and quality of the system in order to manage hundreds of miles of state highways in Louisville and that was done during the Jerry Abramson regime. Just like Louisville residents conveniently forget that the stop lights all over the city were supposed to be synchronized way back in 2009 when I was living in the city. Oops, they blew it again because after this many years the lights are still a mess and traffic control in Louisville is basically incompetent. Same goes with the condition of the roads and highways in much of the city. Looking as if bomb craters were all over the place. It reminds me when our son was born in 2010 going home from the hospital in downtown Louisville only to be jarred awake at 5 am hitting multiple potholes in the streets. It really hasn't changed all that much other than the city promising to fix various problems that never get fixed.
In fact, when I moved out of state I ended up getting a bunch of suspension work and alignments done to my main vehicle and then buying something cheap to go to Louisville in. That way I wasn't having to spend countless money on fixing stuff because of the poor shape of the roads in Louisville and in Kentucky.
Dixie Dieway is just another victim of the Louisville mentality where thinking small is praised and anyone that questions your worldview because they've got more experience or better knowledge base is to be avoided. Same goes for criticizing local SO CALLED leaders in Business or Government because if you want to get anywhere in Louisville its more about who you know or who you are chummy with than what you know. I've seen it over a 20 plus year career and most places there is always some of that but in Louisville all you have to do is breathe and be incompetent and they'll make you upper management and the same works for city government in Louisville.
Louisville government and largely Louisville society is like someone going to a bonfire and trying to urinate on it in order to get it put out. Half measures, government bureaucracy, poor planning, engineering snafus and lack of ability to have a vision or at least some strategic plan.
They want to make Dixie like Hurstbourne or another Shelbyville Road? Good luck on that because that's one of many things that have screwed up both stretches of those highways is over-development and lack of planning and thinking ahead. Back years ago, they put two malls on Shelbyville Road in the the mid to late 1960s and never envisioned that it would explode into the traffic fustercluck that it is now and Hurstbourne is the same way. Now in either one of those areas, you get to deal with Louisville's famously incompetent traffic management systems and get to sit at lights that aren't properly synchronized and haven't been since they were taken over in 2009.
Another Billy Bob mentality thing that Louisville did was to have the city of Louisville which was the old city area or properly called now Louisville Metro take over traffic management and road repairs and construction. Much that used to be under the purview of the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet under the state government. Instead, the city of LouBilly decided to take it all over on all of the State numbered routes of Louisville which comprise a great deal of roadways, highways, byways and 4 lane roads like Preston, Greenbelt, Dixie, Hurstbourne, Shelbyville etc...etc..etc.
They didn't have the quality of people and quality of the system in order to manage hundreds of miles of state highways in Louisville and that was done during the Jerry Abramson regime. Just like Louisville residents conveniently forget that the stop lights all over the city were supposed to be synchronized way back in 2009 when I was living in the city. Oops, they blew it again because after this many years the lights are still a mess and traffic control in Louisville is basically incompetent. Same goes with the condition of the roads and highways in much of the city. Looking as if bomb craters were all over the place. It reminds me when our son was born in 2010 going home from the hospital in downtown Louisville only to be jarred awake at 5 am hitting multiple potholes in the streets. It really hasn't changed all that much other than the city promising to fix various problems that never get fixed.
In fact, when I moved out of state I ended up getting a bunch of suspension work and alignments done to my main vehicle and then buying something cheap to go to Louisville in. That way I wasn't having to spend countless money on fixing stuff because of the poor shape of the roads in Louisville and in Kentucky.
Dixie Dieway is just another victim of the Louisville mentality where thinking small is praised and anyone that questions your worldview because they've got more experience or better knowledge base is to be avoided. Same goes for criticizing local SO CALLED leaders in Business or Government because if you want to get anywhere in Louisville its more about who you know or who you are chummy with than what you know. I've seen it over a 20 plus year career and most places there is always some of that but in Louisville all you have to do is breathe and be incompetent and they'll make you upper management and the same works for city government in Louisville.
One
more thing, you can thank the people that made Frankfort Avenue and
other Louisville thoroughfares under road diets for this current
state of affairs. See back several years ago the morons in city
government got this idea that if they made the streets more narrow
and constricted traffic that it would slow down people and make it
more safe. Even though these people had to slow down it causes more
congestion because the more areas that have this problem will be
avoided by more people.
The same philosophy is what they did by putting in bike lanes in Louisville. They put in the bike lanes which constricted the roadways by making them more narrow and of course less safe all in the name of riding bicycles around in a city where fewer people by far are riding some two wheel bicycle in 90 degree heat to their office job or something they have to look respectable for. They think that by doing this they'll seem progressive and thoughtful instead of making everything a fustercluck and then leaving the mess for intelligent people to fix someday. Louisville thinks that its Portland or some liberal West Coast city with daily temperatures in the 60s to 80s when its a Eastern valley city with high humidity rivaling the Deep South and 90 plus degree temperatures that often last from May until sometime in September or maybe even October.
That's Greg Fischers Louisville though. I can just see the huge poster with his face on it prominently hung from a Lousyville building with that jack bump protruding from his upper lip area. Greg Fischer's Louisville. Something everyone can get behind in the truest sense and be proud of. If you believe that then I've got swampland in the middle of Las Vegas for you as well.
The same philosophy is what they did by putting in bike lanes in Louisville. They put in the bike lanes which constricted the roadways by making them more narrow and of course less safe all in the name of riding bicycles around in a city where fewer people by far are riding some two wheel bicycle in 90 degree heat to their office job or something they have to look respectable for. They think that by doing this they'll seem progressive and thoughtful instead of making everything a fustercluck and then leaving the mess for intelligent people to fix someday. Louisville thinks that its Portland or some liberal West Coast city with daily temperatures in the 60s to 80s when its a Eastern valley city with high humidity rivaling the Deep South and 90 plus degree temperatures that often last from May until sometime in September or maybe even October.
That's Greg Fischers Louisville though. I can just see the huge poster with his face on it prominently hung from a Lousyville building with that jack bump protruding from his upper lip area. Greg Fischer's Louisville. Something everyone can get behind in the truest sense and be proud of. If you believe that then I've got swampland in the middle of Las Vegas for you as well.
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