)Back in 2011, discovered cracks in the Sherman Minton caused a panic and five-month bridge closure, disrupting commute and commercial routines for lots and lots of truckers and river-crossing employees.

172. Green effectively highlighted the deliberate attempts by the Bridges Project to mislead legislators about the potential of tolling the I-64 when the Sherman Minton was due for replacement. (Newer statistics from the RiverLink tolling system determined an 8 percent increase in toll-bridge crossings by the end of 2018. Looks like those toll figures might be getting a boost in 2021.A post-construction survey of traffic flow changes a year after completion of the Ohio River Bridges Project found that daily usage of the toll-free Sherman Minton increased by 23 percent between 2013 and the start of 2018 — from 73,400 to 90,000 vehicles per day; the toll-free, 90-year-old, four-lane Clark Memorial Bridge (the Second Street Bridge), even with its paint job going on, saw a 75-percent jump. The future of a bridge 90,000 cars use daily is up in the air as leaders from both Indiana and Kentucky determine what to do with the Sherman Minton Bridge. And then with the downtown businesses – with our thriving downtown businesses which would be totally cutoff from any traffic coming across the Sherman Minton Bridge, which a lot of traffic comes over to New Albany,” he saidIf the Sherman Minton Bridge is closed, it would send more than 90,000 cars daily to the other bridges connecting Kentucky and Indiana.

Meanwhile, the old two-way Kennedy — which averaged 125,700 vehicle crossings in 2013, the year ORBP work started — had its usage drop by almost half to 64,200 as a one-way-south bridge; amazingly, that total includes traffic on the one-way-north Abraham Lincoln Bridge. Sherman Minton Bridge is a double-decked arched bridge carrying traffic on I-64. You know, the money and the hassle.

They agree with national economic-development researcher Aaron Renn, who wrote inPerhaps ironically, the Clark Memorial began as a toll bridge, charging car-crossers 35 cents downgraded to 25 cents for 17 years after its 1929 opening. Sherman Minton Bridge: Ohio River: 244 0 626 Stahl 1962 Straße Louisville (Kentucky) USA: 171. I’ve talked to some of the constituents in the district where I’m running for city council and just people that I know in the community, and I’ve not heard a single person say that bridge closure is an option for them,” she said.Residents Argue Against Full Closure Of Sherman Minton BridgeResidents Argue Against Full Closure Of Sherman Minton BridgeSign up for a daily dose of WFPL news curated for you each morning. EVER. Three of those — the northbound I-65 Lincoln Bridge, the southbound I-65 Kennedy Bridge and the I-265 Lewis and Clark Bridge — are toll bridges. It runs from the western end of Louisville, Kentucky to New Albany, Indiana. Sherman Minton Renewal to Extend Life of Bridge. NO TOLLS ON SHERMAN-MINTON, OR KENNEDY BRIDGES. This new shutdown is going to be way different, and not just because people are hyper-frugal and the purgatory time is three years. Work is beginning on development of the Sherman Minton Renewal, an extensive bi-state rehabilitation project to significantly extend the service life of the 56-year-old bridge that connects New Albany, IN and Louisville, KY. Krk-Brücke, kleiner Bogen Burni kanal: 244 Beton 1980 Straße Krk, Kroatien HR: Auckland Harbour Bridge: Waitemata Harbour: 243,8 1021 Stahl 1959 Straße Auckland NZL: Foto ? But that was it for bond payments and tolls. Also disturbing, the only reason the Bridges Project is even asking a consultant for a tolling scenario considering a toll-free the Sherman Minton is because a Courier-Journal reporter requested it.

It has to be sheer coincidence that tens of thousands of toll-dodgers on the Sherman Minton Bridge will be forced to find alternate routes across the Ohio River 13 months from now, when a $90-million extensive refurbishment shuts down two, four or (shudder to think) even all six lanes of the double-deck I-64 bridge for up to three years — a scenario unfolding while the three new (revamped in the case of the Kennedy) toll bridges have drawn lukewarm numbers of users. If the Sherman Minton Bridge is closed, it would send more than 90,000 cars daily to the other bridges connecting Kentucky and Indiana. INDOT and KYTC beginning environmental study for the project. The traffic count on the far-east Lewis and Clark was 21,200 vehicles daily after its construction.Do the math: The higher-trafficked Sherman Minton and Clark Memorial added to the toll-bridge figures comes out a little light of the 2013 usage total — negligible, yes, but still a sign that 2,500 people a day hadn’t been making the cross-river trips they were in 2013.

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