About Jackie Green

and the Go Green Mayoral Platform

Think Green!

This campaign is not about a person. This campaign is about a new platform, the resulting policies and practices, and their impact on the people of Louisville and the place we know and love as Louisville. This campaign will help define the path that Louisville will follow in the new century.

To sucessfully navigate the coming challenges Louisville will require leadership that sets a new course, establishes fresh objectives and then employs the skill of Metro Council, able departmental directors, technocrats, business heads, community leaders and the mayors of surrounding cities to walk together in a new direction to achieve sustainable goals. In this case, that leadership is found in Jackie Green.

In 2001 Jackie co-founded the No Wider I-64 coalition of neighborhoods and organizations fighting the widening of I-64 through Cherokee Park. The effort led to Kentucky Transportation Cabinet's public (but false) denial of the plan.

As Executive Director of the Coalition for the Advancement of Regional Transportation, he was successful in organizing low interest rates for home buyers along Louisville's public transit corridors. In that same capacity he was instrumental in forcing a public transit option into the Ohio River Bridges study ("Foe of Big Highways Now Banking on Bicycles" - Courier-Journal, April 05, 2004). It should be noted that the resulting study conducted by the highway biased consultants was ill designed and fatally flawed.

Jackie co-founded an ad hoc coalition of 25 organizations (KTAP - Kentuckiana Transportation Action Partnership). Jackie and other KTAP members spent two weeks in Frankfort at a critical point in time listening to legislators and promoting a realistic financial plan for Louisville's transportation system.
"Abramson, others endorse bill that could mean tolls" - Courier-Journal, 30 January 2008

He has tirelessly promoted public transit in lieu of one or two new Ohio River Bridges.
"One bridge or two? Both are a bad idea" - Courier-Journal, 1 April 2008
"Move on public transit before bridge schemes collapse" - Louisville Eccentric Observer, 16 April 2008

He has criticized 8664 as a distracting automotive infrastructure that delays investment in public transit.
"8664 organization criticized - called a 'distraction'" - Courier-Journal, 8 April 2008

He was successful in negotiating cross-river access for pedestrians and cyclists.
"Second Street Bridge Open to Pedestrians & Cyclists" - Fox 41 TV, 16 April 2009

Jackie has served on KIPDA's Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Committee, Greater Louisville Inc.'s Transportation Committee, and the Governor's Task Force on Sprawl (2001).

When asked if he wants to be mayor, Jackie responded: "Anyone who wants to be mayor should not be allowed to be mayor. But to answer your question, I don't want to be mayor less than I want to see Louisville follow the course set by other mayoral candidates. Make no mistake about it, our objective is to occupy the office."

Jackie Green originally moved to Louisville in 1975. He bought and renovated four historic buildings on East Market Street in the late '70s/early '80s - thirty years ahead of his time. He moved to southern Indiana for several years, lived three years in Australia, three in Michigan and returned to Louisville in 1999. Early years were spent in Louisiana, six years in Sao Paulo, Brasil. Jackie is a husband and a father. His entrepreneural experience includes business consulting, import/export management and farming. He co-founded Louisville's only bicycle courier service in 2001 and the Bike Couriers Bike Shops in 2006.

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