Please tell KYTC to add Bikeways to Grinstead Drive!

Update²: the public comment period has now ended. -Dave Morse

Update: the public comment period has been extended by a few weeks. We're not sure until when. -Dave Morse

The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet (KYTC) is asking the public to comment on a plan to change Grinstead Drive from Bardstown Road to Cherokee Parkway (next to Cherokee Golf Course) to reduce the lanes from two lanes each way to one lane each way, adding a turning lane and parking for cars.

KYTC proposed a road diet that did NOT include bikeways, so we are asking you to send an email by October 27 making sure they know they need to INCLUDE a safe provision for people on bikes. Share your thoughts on the plan; you MUST contact Jason Richardson at KYTC by email, phone or letter by October 27th.

Jason Richardson
Kentucky Transportation Cabinet
8310 Westport Road
Louisville, KY 40242
jasonR.richardson@ky.gov
(502) 210-5400

Here's a sample letter:

"Please ensure that the Grinstead Road diet include a bikeway to protect people who ride their bikes on that road. Since 2000, this stretch of road has been the location of 10% of Jefferson County’s bike fatalities. To redesign it without accommodating and protecting people who ride bikes is a bad use of public transportation money. A bikeway would encourage more people to ride bikes and use existing routes. Thank you for your attention to this issue of public safety!"

Copy it to the following people:

Councilman Tom Owen, District 8
601 W Jefferson St.
Louisville, KY 40202
tom.owen@louisvilleky.gov
Terra.Long@louisvilleky.gov
(502) 574-1108

Dirk Gowin 
Louisville Metro Public Works & Assets
444 S. 5th Street, Suite 400
Louisville, KY 40202
dirk.gowin@louisvilleky.gov
(502) 574-5925