If only he’d had a map
Posted by Janet Patton on April 29, 2007
Lexington Mayor Jim Newberry got a look at the Rolex Kentucky traffic jam first hand on Saturday. Newberry said he was stuck for about 15 minutes in the jam on Newtown Pike as everybody tried to get here in time for Theodore O’Connor’s 10 a.m. cross-country run.
Cars crawled for miles in both directions but Newberry made light of it. “It’s just something that’s got to be fixed. We’ll sit down and find a more effective way to get everybody in,” Newberry said. Although he’s thinking ahead to the WEG in 2010, he wants things better for next year, he said.
“If I’d come out Georgetown Street, I wouldn’t have had any problem,” noted Newberry.
Linda Blackford is an enterprise reporter who has been working on advance coverage of the 2010 World Equestrian Games.
Alicia Wincze is a general assignment sportswriter, covering everything from the Kentucky Derby to girls' soccer. She started riding at age 8 and was a four-year member of the Pace University equestrian team.
Janet Patton writes about the horse industry and has covered the Rolex Kentucky Three-Day Events since the first four-star version in 1998. She missed last year and is excited to be back.
