Category: Veterans Hospital

 Effect on traffic remains to be determined.

Traffic has indeed been a mess at the site of the new Robley Rex VA Hospital  building site for the last few months as shown by videos on YouTube and in other ways.  Since the whole intersection of the Waterson Expressway with Routes 42 and 22 has been under construction, this should have been no surprise.  Now that things have settled down, a fairer assessment can be attempted.  For those who have not driven through the area recently, these photos  taken mid-day on Monday, November 19 will show the new configuration. Click through the images for larger sizes, or for maximum size, download.  Continue reading “New Traffic Patterns at Brownsboro VA Site Open.”

Executive Summary.
Last night, the Veterans Administration held the latest of a series of public meetings related to the construction of a replacement VA Hospital on the lot it purchased at 4906 Brownsboro Road. The purpose of the meeting was to present the preferred Facility Master Plan that will be used by subsequent design and construction phases. The public had been invited to submit questions orally or in writing; before, during, or after the meeting. However, as in earlier meetings, the audience of individuals living in adjacent residential developments had a different agenda and wanted to speak only about placing the hospital elsewhere, and in particular, downtown. The same arguments used in the past were rehashed with an additional creative one or two offered. Sadly, an increasingly desperate minority, applauded generously by the audience, cast a degree of ugliness on the proceeding. The process degenerated into threats of lawsuits and a personal attack on the integrity of a respected VA official. A summary of the meeting is presented below. Continue reading “VA Presents Recommended Master Plan for Replacement Hospital in Louisville.”

Date: Wednesday November 14, 2012
Location: Clifton Center
2117 Payne St
Louisville, KY 40206
Time: 6:00pm to 8:00pm

You can download a copy of the entire notice with instructions about commenting here. Continue reading “VA Holds Next Public Hearing on New Hospital in Louisville.”