2024-11-15T01:01:19-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/58088488/so-what-is-louisville-doing-now Nam Henderson 2012-09-26T18:54:00-04:00 >2018-01-30T06:16:04-05:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/kq/kq7y0w0rceyz8zdm.jpeg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>As for the notion that expanding the interstate tangle and adding the sister bridge next to the Kennedy might bring more people and jobs into the city, I can only say that 40 years after the interstates supposedly started pumping life into Louisville&rsquo;s downtown, the streets here looked pretty empty, especially at night.</p></em><br /><br /><p> Michael Kimmelman criticizes plans to add to Louisville's "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kennedy_Interchange" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Spaghetti Junction</a>" by increasing the capacity of downtown highways and building a second bridge next to the Kennedy Interchange. He considers it especially foolhardy, in light of recent efforts in cities across the globe, to repair the damages done to their urban fabric, by postwar highways.</p>