Wednesday, April 7, 2010

Public meeting to be held about transit hub

The public in invited to a meeting on April 12 to discuss the possible locations planned for a downtown transportation hub and on what facilities it should have and what services it should offer.

The meeting will be at 5 p.m. at the Transit Authority of River City’s Union Station headquarters at Broadway and 10th Street. The meeting will be conducted by JRA Architects, a consulting firm that the city is paying to design and develop a plan for the transportation facility.

The project will be funded primarily with federal money. Louisville Metro has already received $130,000 federal grant to hire the consultant and an additional $1.3 million from the U.S. Transportation Department for development of the project.

The hub provide bicyclists a place to park their bicycles as well as a place to get bus tickets and would be a stopping point for buses and taxis.

The building is proposed to include showers and lockers for cyclists and storage facilities for bikes.

The city has suggested four possible locations for the hub, but the final location could be elsewhere. Here are the four proposed locations:

  • The ground floor of the municipal garage near Sixth and Market streets
  • The surface lot behind City Hall at Sixth Street and Congress Alley
  • Founders Square near Louisville Gardens
  • Plaza near Fourth and Jefferson streets.

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