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On Wednesday, December 14, the Lafitte Corridor had a visitor — Ken Salazar, Secretary of the US Department of the Interior. “Having Secretary Salazar visit the proposed Lafitte Corridor Greenway and recognize it as a project of national priority through the Urban Waters Federal Partnership yesterday was certainly appreciated by all of us [...] FOLC board member Matt Rufo has piece in the The Lens about why New Orleans should adopt a Complete Streets policy: Making ‘Complete Streets’ a policy makes complete sense The greenway is mentioned in this AP story by Cain Burdeau. New Roads Post-Storm Make New Orleans Cycling City The city is also poised to spend $7 million in federal aid to turn a wide 3-mile stretch of an abandoned railroad easement between the French Quarter and City Park into a greenway that [...] Perils for Pedestrians episode #174 was just released today and will be appearing on stations across the country. The interview with FOLC President Bart Everson was shot some while ago, so some info presented is not current. For the latest, stay tuned to this [...] DayPortPlayer.newPlayer({articleID:”25410″,bannerAdConDefID:”13″,videoAdObjectID:”12″,videoAdConDefID:”5″,accPos:”CCTVI.NEWS.LOCAL”,accSite:”WVUE”,playVideoAds:”true”,isDevMode:”false”,slideShow:”false”,idmMarkerID:”Shadowboxeba67553133c4fa081ae9d905e4e0dc7″,autoPlay:”false”,categoryID:”3″,playerInstanceID:”68C8B159-BF06-A4F1-D73D-81F034362211″,domain:”wvue.web.entriq.net”}); The greenway figures prominently in a story from this morning’s Times-Picayune. Thanks to Rebecca Mowbray for the coverage. The Gambit has an article about the greenway by Alex Woodward: Last August, FOLC president Bart Everson was a guest on Crosstown Conversations on local talk station WBOK. Now the audio is available online, and the information is still current. So put on your headphones or crank up your speakers and listen or download for listening later. Many thanks to host Jeanne Nathan. 1. Our favorite project is given passing mention in a Times-Picayune story about the mayor of Detroit meeting the mayor of New Orleans. At Dooky Chase’s in the 6th Ward on Monday morning, iconic chef Leah Chase gave them “instructions” on their work before they walked from the first phase of Faubourg Lafitte, [...] Longtime FOLC board member Edgar Chase is the subject of a feature article on the RTC TrailBlog. Check it out. (We’re also copying the article here for archival purposes.) |
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