Broadway All the Way is a visionary transportation project to reimagine the Broadway corridor in Louisville, Ky., with a specific focus on prioritizing safety, mobility, accessibility, and equity for all users – pedestrians, bicyclists, motorists, and transit riders.
Thousands of users travel the corridor each day, which is home to hundreds of businesses and touches more than 11 neighborhoods and extends to Bardstown Road and the Bashford Manor area, many of which face racial inequities, climate change impacts, and systemic economic challenges. Broadway also provides critical transit access for the Transit Authority of River City (TARC), with three routes that account for 40 percent of overall ridership.
The Broadway All the Way corridor is the backbone of Louisville, Kentucky’s public transportation system. The corridor includes three roadways, Broadway (5.5-miles), Baxter Avenue (0.25-miles) and Bardstown Road (4.25-miles). Broadway is bordered by more than a dozen neighborhoods—many of which face the city’s greatest racial inequities, climate change impacts, and systemic economic challenges.
Louisville was awarded a $5 million RAISE Planning Grant in 2022 for Broadway All the Way. The Planning Grant provided funds to develop a unified vision for premium transit, create shovel ready plans to implement a complete street retrofit for Broadway, and generate plans for strategic transit enhancements along Baxter Avenue and Bardstown Road. Each of these components will prepare Louisville’s vital transportation corridors to be transformed from dangerous and inequitable roadways into innovative, accessible, and equitable complete streets with dedicated bus rapid transit and multi-modal facilities, green infrastructure, and public space improvements.
Premium transit is high-quality public transportation designed to improve capacity, efficiency and reliability relative to traditional bus service. Typically, premium transit includes dedicated travel lanes, traffic signal priority, off-board fare collection, elevated platforms and enhanced stations. Broadway is one of the most heavily used transit corridors in the entire TARC system. Premium transit along Broadway will greatly improve capacity and reliability for the corridor and improve mobility for the community.
The final planning and design includes local, state and federal funding. Construction is not yet funded at this time for complete implementation. We anticipate completion of the design by June 2025.
Louisville Metro Public Works is managing the overall work effort in close collaboration with the Transit Authority of River City (TARC), the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet (KYTC) and the Federal Transportation Authority (FTA).
2019 – 2023: Master Plan – This initial project stage was a wide-ranging assessment of the
corridor that involved transportation analysis and public input to determine corridor usage, needs and ideas for improvement.
2022: RAISE Grant – Louisville Metro Government and TARC were awarded a $5 million RAISE Planning Grant in 2022 for Broadway All the Way. The Planning Grant provided funds to develop a unified vision for premium transit, create shovel ready plans to implement a complete street retrofit for Broadway, and generate plans for strategic transit enhancements along Baxter Avenue and Bardstown Road.
2024 – 2027: Detailed Design/Plan – This project stage involves multiple phases to develop a detailed design for the corridor based on the Master Plan recommendations, as well as continued analysis and public input. It will include specific plans, such as where bus stops will be located, so that the project will be ready for construction once additional funding is secured.
TARC is a leading partner in Broadway All the Way and is heavily involved in all decision making through this process. TARC 2025 recognizes that transit routes along Broadway and Bardstown Road are critical to the overall system’s usefulness and success and that will remain the case in all future transit network scenarios.
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