MOBILITY/TRANSPORTATION Public Transit Service TARC Offers Limited Service to the Fairdale Community
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MOBILITY/TRANSPORTATION Public Transit Service TARC offers limited service to the Fairdale community. The Mobility issues facing the Fairdale community today play a Iroquois Park – Fairdale Express (Route 37) connects the area to significant role in its future. The village is well served for automobiles downtown Louisville. The service is limited to weekday AM & PM with its collector and higher level roadways and the access to I-265. peak hour trips. Community leaders would like to see improvements The diversity of housing types and the many village compatible land to the public transit system to assist citizens with limited transportation uses within the 1/4 to 1/2 mile radius of the village center can be options. With ever increasing fuel costs residents of the area need enhanced by improving pedestrian and public transportation options as more cost effective options for transportation to work and for shopping well as improving roadways within the village center and the outlying trips. village areas. There have been improvements to the transportation network recently, however, more are required. Street Classifications There are several ways which the transportatin issues can be addressed. The further enhacement of the village center, designed to There are several arterial and collector level streets providing be pedestrian friendly, will serve to encourage a more efficient road, access to the community. National Turnpike and New Cut Road have pedestrian and bicycle network and opportunities for transit use. In the been improved in recent years between I-265 and Outer Loop. I-265 current analysis, it is important to understand the relationship between provides expressway connections to I-64, I-65 and I-71. The remaining the existing land uses and the transportation network in order to create roadways are local level and neighborhood streets. a better balance of the system in the future. TARC ROUTE MAP Core Graphic 10 of Cornerstone 2020 identifies the following roadways as the major thoroughfares serving the community: The sidewalks that have been constructed in recent years have Gene Snyder (I-265) Expressway enabled residents to walk to stores, schools and parks surrounding the village center. There is a strong desire for this construction to continue. National Turnpike Minor Arterial Traffic improvements are also a high priority including redesigning the Fairdale Road Primary Collector intersection of Fairdale, Manslick, Mt Holly & Mitchell Hill Roads. This off-set intersection results in many traffic delays at present. These New Cut Road Primary Collector are significant traffic delays during the peak hours each day. 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