Now I think its time to pay attention to various Louisville streets that might as well be pockmarked like the moon with the various road issues and lack of attention that has been paid to the Louisville streets over the years.
Dixie Highway comes to mind of being the biggest clusterf--k around when it comes to Louisville roadways. Bumpy through about 20 miles of its existence from downtown all the way to the Jefferson Hardin County line. For years this road was a main thoroughfare from Louisville across the southern states. Yet after the interstate system was built in the 1960s and 1970s, it entered a rapid period of decline.
Why is it that its taken the better part of a generation of 20 years to figure out how to configure Dixie Highway to be a safe, efficient, and high traffic thoroughfare through the populated areas of Southwestern Louisville including Shively, Pleasure Ridge Park, Valley Station, and Kosmosdale, etc. All the while the road has been bumpy and uneven for years due to lack of maintenance and lack of engineering standards to keep the road as a major roadway safe and efficient. Add in the fact that the drivers of Dixie make it more dangerous with their lack of driving skills and lack of common sense. That should be strictly enforced by Louisville Metro and the Kentucky State Police but they are too busy solving other crimes and problems in the city nowadays to do much traffic enforcement.
However, they used to regularly hand out tickets on Dixie Highway back in the 90s and 2000s era on a regular basis and didn't shy away from pulling people over. The only place you might find them sitting now is south of the Gene Snyder Freeway because their traffic enforcement is lax between Valley Station and downtown at best. All the while residents are regularly in accidents because of lane switching, tailgaters, stop light running and various other bad driving practices.
Add in the fact that the road is poorly lit and poorly maintained as well as tremendously bumpy in many sections with the roadway having raised surfaces and falling apart lends to the problems as well. Too many businesses and entry ways to cause issues as well and an overbearing traffic load on the highway system.
Why Louisville can't get its public works system correct to get that road fixed properly is beyond me despite years of planning and community discussions that even though some work has been done, not much progress has been made. It shouldn't take an act of Congress or a military action to get something done to fix a roadway that carries so much of the traffic load for the Southwest Louisville area.
Why the people of Louisville continue to put up with this crap?
There are plenty of downtown surface streets in Louisville that could use some TLC as well especially in the Downtown and Old Louisville as well as Butchertown and Smoketown areas. Too numerous to mention here I would love to video all of the bombed out streets of Louisville and show the public what a mess they truly are. Maybe that might get the attention of the Metro Government that instead of polishing their nails and having a manicure could actually do some work and get roads fixed which is an essential function of government.
Also, who in the hell is the idiot in Louisville in charge of the traffic light system? They should be fired and forced to dig ditches for the rest of their days instead of trying to unsuccessfully manage traffic lights so that people aren't spending an eternity sitting at lights because of lack of synchronization.
I remember back in 2009 that there was to be total sychronization of the traffic signals in Louisville, KY since the city under Jerry Abramson was supposed to be fixing that problem. Yet its 8 years later and that still hasn't occurred under the Greg Fischer administration. They've did nothing except waste the last eight years in getting someone to do their job and fix the problems that cause people to have to sit wastefully for hours at the lights every year when there is no traffic or very little traffic running. Its mind bogglingly stupid to have such a system that could be used to save on gas costs, wear and tear on cars, and time and yet not use it efficiently.
You're telling me that Louisville Public Works can't do its job and actually commit to fix the traffic light issues. Despite the fact that in 2009, the Mayor of Louisville, Jerry Abramson chose to take over the maintenance of the system from the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet which included maintenance on all state roads and numbered roads within the jurisdiction of Louisville Metro. Of which now the city of Louisville ie Louisville Metro now is responsible for the upkeep, snow removal, and roadway improvements on all former state routes.
Yet under the incompetent and clueless Greg Fischer administration, the road network has been increasingly falling into disrepair and lack of upkeep despite the promises of a clueless and incompetent mayor that refuses to take public safety seriously by fixing roadways. Instead he's more worried about liberal agenda items such as having more bike lanes and more sustainability ideas which add very little to the city other than more waste and more inefficiency rather than fixing what needs to be fixed.
Louisville, thinks as itself as a world class city, but its a delusion with the political and business leaders in Louisville being largely ineffectual and incompetent to promoting change, progress and improvement. All the while playing the usual constituent games to get re-elected while the overglorified trailer park burns down around them. With crime and murders spiking through the roof, these political games are jeopardizing the future of the region and taxpayers. Too bad most people are too ignorant or self absorbed to actually know or care about anything that doesn't hit them in the face.
