Tag Archives: Ohio River Bridges Project

Bridges Project Limps Forward In Frankfort

October 19, 2009 – 2:10 pm

According to The Courier-Journal, Kentucky’s newly minted “infrastructure authority” — whose primary task will be oversight of the $4.1 billion Ohio River Bridges Project, which was designed by monkeys in the late 20th century — will hold its first public hearing this Thursday in Room 106 of the shiny Kentucky Transportation Cabinet building in downtown [...]

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Bridge On The River Duh

August 17, 2009 – 6:04 pm

Kentucky BFF’s Jerry Abramson and Steve Beshear (Louisville mayor and Kentucky state governor, respectively) have released their picks for a five-person board of negotiators charged with the task of destroying downtown Louisville for the next several decades and taking southern Indiana along for the ride. I’m talking, of course, about the Ohio River Bridges Project, [...]

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8664 Lays Statistical Smackdown

July 23, 2009 – 2:22 pm

Despite what you may have read in our fair berg’s “major newspaper” or heard from its “elected officials,” a new poll conducted on behalf of the folks at 8664.org shows that a vast majority of Louisvillians don’t seem to favor hardly any of the tenets of that bloated, unwieldy and budget-killing Ohio River Bridges Project. [...]

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