256. This bus stop will be eliminated . . . . .

Most mornings I ride a city bus into work catching the bus at the corner of S. Campbell Street and E. Muhammad Ali Boulevard about 260 feet from my front door; city busses along the Left Bank of the Ohio River near Milepost 606 are known by their acronym TARC, for Transit Authority of River City. This morning I was greeted at the stop by a sign affixed to the utility pole under the bus-stop sign which reads "This bus stop will be eliminated February 2, 2008." I've shipped off emails to both TARC and the Mayor asking what consideration of the passengers who board here on a daily basis was taken. I know my neighbor two doors over, an employee at the Pendennis Club, also boards here, as well as two students who attend the Brown School, and several others who attend Central High. I haven't seen anyone from TARC asking any of us if we were interested in losing our stop. And I have to wonder how many other stops are proposed to be eliminated.



Muhammad Ali Boulevard is the second longest continuous street through Louisville, running from E. Chestnut Street on the east side (in the 1000 block east) to South Western Parkway on the west side (in the 4500 block west). Only Broadway is longer, and it only by five blocks, two on the west end and three on the east. It, along with Chestnut Street, is also the straighest street, with no curves anywhere along those 55 blocks. Like the famous boxer for whom it was named in 1978, it has a former name, or names. For most of its course, it was formerly known as Walnut Street. In the west end, beyond 30th Street (or actually the railroad tracks) it was Michigan Drive. As you drive along the route there is a bus stop at every block, with the exception of Jackson Street which has two stops (one on either side of the intersection). So why and how was this one stop proposed for elimination?

I await responses to my emails.