Tag Archives: Steve Shaw

Bridges Authority’s financing plan not much of a financing plan

The Louisville and Southern Indiana Bridges Authority last evening dashed expectations that a specific tolling plan for the controversial $4.1 billion Ohio River Bridges Project would be ready by the end of the year. The disclosure came amid the harsh sunlight of a meeting room at Papa John’s Cardinal Stadium, where sign-wielding protesters wore tape [...]

Bridges Authority meeting tomorrow

“There is such a thing as too big,” writes Steve Shaw about the Ohio River Bridges Project, “especially when you’re paying by the inch. And particularly when the product is ugly and obsolete, not to mention slow, noisy and hazardous to erect.” Shaw’s cover story on the unwieldy, unpopular and uncompromising multi-billion dollar public works [...]