The Brownsboro Road Diet won't extend to Hillcrest Avenue.Mayor Greg Fischer said on Monday that he didn't think the public input process for the possible expansion was given enough time. So it's not happening. The state was planning roadwork on Brownsboro and told the city that it would consider extending the diet—if Louisville wanted it, a new release said. In response,the city set up a public comment period last month that ended on Sunday.“The data both locally and nationally show that road diets are an effective way to increase public safety by slowing traffic without impeding it,” Fischer said in a news release. “However, because the public had only two weeks for input, my team has recommended to the state that they proceed with restriping the section of Brownsboro Road with its current four-lane configuration.”The Brownsboro Road Diet reconfigured the roadway from North Ewing Avenue to Drescher Bridge Avenue in the Clifton and Clifton Heights neighborhoods. Here's a description from Councilwoman Tina Ward-Pugh's web site:
