Coalition for the Advancement of Regional Transportation

CART Annual Meeting

Jul 27, 2001

Former city alderman Tom Owen, a member of the CART board, will be the featured speaker at our annual meeting. The meeting is scheduled for 7 p.m. Tuesday, July 17 at the Urban County Government Center on Barrett Avenue. Besides hearing Dr. Owen, the membership also will elect board members and set policy for the coming fiscal year.
Dr. Owen, an archivist and local historian at the University of Louisville, is a regular bike and bus commuter. Tom's talk is entitled "How Soon We Forget: Changes in Traditional City Neighborhood Life Since World War II." He describes fundamental changes in home, neighborhood and society that occurred during the postwar decades - a time in which air conditioning, automobiles, and TV came to dominate our lives. Owen avoids candy-coating the "good old days" but insists that there are some community values from that earlier time worth retaining.