As someone who wants to see the best for this region including higher wage jobs and more skilled employment opportunities so I don’t have to move away to find work, I would rather see world class schools and schools that aren’t garbage like what has been put at the Belknap campus.

As far as the bridges go, they better figure out something to get two bridges built before we have a calamity where one of the existing bridges becomes unusable. I’ve been all over town the past couple of weeks and the traffic is horrid coming from the Indiana side to Louisville because of the poorly engineered mess called Spaghetti Junction. Having a 20 lane system isn’t going to fix things either unless you rebuild the interstate in a different location. None of which is going to make any community preservationist happy.

The original I 65 plan was to have the interstate pass through the city in a more western approach and that would have taken it closer to the falls. So keeping it where it is isn’t going to change. Why we need to pave over the biggest part of Waterfront Park is beyond me but it seems to me that isn’t the problem at all. The problem is getting traffic out of downtown and into downtown.

You’re not going to do it successfully with a urban parkway with stoplights every once in a while. Its going to back up just like the Kennedy Bridge does now and people trying to go east onto 64 and 71.

The entire system as it stands now was a product of 1960s thinking especially the mess that is called on and off ramps. Would a cloverleaf had been better? Hard to tell because its all going to bottleneck. For some reason, people in this region have a problem with driving and its not that Louisville is a massive city say like Chicago or St. Louis Metro or Atlanta.

I have to question why Mayor Jerry goes on these Possibility City outings trying to recruit people to move back here when he should damn well know that there is a paucity of paying employment in this town. If someone wants to come here and develop a business, go for it but for many people it makes absolutely no sense to move back here when in many cases they are doing well in places like Chicago, Dallas, Atlanta, San Fran, LA etc. They’re going to come back to what? A lower wage base, a broken school system, a city that can’t even take care of its surface streets. I hate to be negative but the negatives of moving back here certainly outweigh the positives.

Frankly, this site is a great place for people to discuss and share information. Its much needed here as the news media in this city gives softball questions to the politicos and others. There is no real investigative journalism other than a few good sites that were created by the locals here. Especially when it comes to mass readership and at least being able to get the news out there.

The CJ has been defunct for years in that but thats another issue. Anyway, just my two cents. But if people in Louisville don’t care enough to get things done and get the city repaired and improved, then nothing will change and it will still be the same city ran by the old stogy crowd that has kept things the same for generations. Let’s hope people open their eyes and actually realize that we need paying jobs and good wages and quality of life issues. Parks by themselves don’t cut it. There’s plenty of open parks in the USA and you have to make a living and that’s ultimately what counts

On the other hand, while King has made some ridiculous statements about the bridges project in this campaign (like it’s “patriotic” to build the second I-65 bridge), he’s also someone who has demonstrated the ability to see all sides of issues and work chameleon-like to achieve ultimately what’s in the best interests of the city. I’m not a supporter of his, but I’m just saying I know his game.

I’m just a realist. Tyler isn’t going to win. One of the other guys is. Probably best to force one of the other guys to do the right thing or try to influence them. Tandy and King aren’t River Fields guys.

(Futher – Shannon White seems dumb as a rock when it comes to issues lie 64. Lisa Moxley’s response – if you watch her C-J ed board interview – is more balanced.)

I think Tyler’s right on just about everything. But there is, indeed, more to life than the Waterfront.

That said… Tyler’s not going to win. It’s not going to happen. He’s had all this time to make a move or talk about something else as much as he has about the bridges (I know they’re important)… and there’s been no movement. Not happening.

Greg Fischer is the current front-running with Jim King and David Tandy right behind him. Tandy has no money but has unions to attack Fischer for him. King has plenty of cash and will do his own attacking. Fischer will hit back here and there but his problems are greater than the other candidates. It’ll be a super-close race. And it’ll take King & Tandy working together to defeat Fischer.

If Fischer wins in the primary, Heiner wins in the general.

The only candidate I don’t support is Greg Fischer. I’d be okay with any other victor – including Hal Heiner.