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Louisville, Kentucky, public/private fiber project faces heat from taxpayer lobbyist group

June 12, 2017

Louisville, Kentucky’s, latest proposal to improve broadband availability—a citywide fiber network built via a public-private partnership—has to weather a local lobbyist group’s protest first.

While Louisville city leaders would like to see a citywide broadband network on the basis that it would enable more broadband choices for residential and business customers, as well as potentially smart city applications like smart traffic lights, the Taxpayers Protection Alliance (TPA) wants to prevent the proposed project from getting off the ground.

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