National impact?

 

Brent Spence Bridge – OKI Regional Council of Governments

 

Businesses not only rely on the bridge for transporting their goods — more than $1 billion in freight crosses the bridge every day — but they also rely on the bridge to allow their employees to commute to and from their homes and jobs.

 

 

Consider the following facts from the Ohio-Kentucky-Indiana Regional Council of Governments (OKI), the U.S. Census, and the U.S. Department of Transportation:

 

The bridge was designed for an average flow of 80,000 vehicles per day. Estimates predict more than 200,000 vehicles per day will be crossing the bridge in the near future.

 

Approximately 60% of the 2.1 million people in this region live within five miles of I-75.

 

Approximately 75% of the 1 million jobs in this region are within five miles of I-75.

 

The population of our area is expected to grow about 10 percent from 2.1 million people in 2010 to 2.3 million by 2030.

 

One third of the entire population of the United States lives within 275 miles of the I-75 corridor.

 

Interstate truck traffic alone is projected to grow by 10 percent by 2030.

 

OKI conservatively estimates that 79,000 commuters cross the river every day to get to or from work in Hamilton, Clermont, Warren, Butler, Boone, Campbell and Kenton counties.

National impact?

 

Due to the freight traffic that travels along there.

 

 

Of the over 150,000 vehicles that cross the bridge daily a large large number of them are tractor trailers. It would be a huge blow to the shipping industry and that's just one major impact it would have at the national level.

It will take 10 years to complete it, so my grand kids might see it some day.

Why would it take 10 years to complete?

This project is waaayyyy over due.

Why would it take 10 years to complete?

 

You do realize how much they are going to have to tear down first in order to build it? Its not just a new bridge, you have to build all the access to it as well. It will take 10 years just to buy out all the property they are going to have to to build it.

You do realize how much they are going to have to tear down first in order to build it? Its not just a new bridge, you have to build all the access to it as well. It will take 10 years just to buy out all the property they are going to have to to build it.

I thought you were talking about just the construction.

I cross NB every day but hit the Clay Wade SB. It can't be in much better shape. Some aging bridges crossing the Ohio.

Is there a place up or downstream where it might be easier, faster, and cheaper to build another crossing where they can take some pressure off this bridge while they make plans to replace this one?

 

 

This does make me appreciate Indiana. When the reports came into them about the Sherman Minton bridge damage a few years ago their governor didn't hesitate to shut it down and repair it. Thus it pushed everyone in our area to finally get on board with the 2 neew bridges and the rebuild of the interchange in Louisville.

I thought you were talking about just the construction.

 

Isnt that part of the construction? what good is it to build a bridge no one can drive on because they cant get to it.

Isnt that part of the construction? what good is it to build a bridge no one can drive on because they cant get to it.

Do you purposely try to be as difficult as possible?

 

Let me be as clear as possible. From the first day they put a shovel in the ground till the day traffic is moving across. That is what I'm talking about. You think that time frame would be 10 years?

Is there a place up or downstream where it might be easier, faster, and cheaper to build another crossing where they can take some pressure off this bridge while they make plans to replace this one?

 

Could turn north just southwest of the Ft Mitchel Country Club and follow the Railroad Corridor North across the River...then link up with I-75 around Queensgate.

 

 

A lot of that land is already unoccupied also.

Do you purposely try to be as difficult as possible?

 

Let me be as clear as possible. From the first day they put a shovel in the ground till the day traffic is moving across. That is what I'm talking about. You think that time frame would be 10 years?

 

10 years minimum, probably closer to 12 -15.

 

Could turn north just southwest of the Ft Mitchel Country Club and follow the Railroad Corridor North across the River...then link up with I-75 around Queensgate.

 

 

A lot of that land is already unoccupied also.

 

Then building a bypass that goes around it might be smarter and cheaper right now which would lessen the load on the BS bridge and probably ease the congestion in thar area in general.

Yeah I don't see how they could build one in place of the current one or even right next to it...but I guess they could try. If I-75 through traffic was taken off of the BS it would help dramatically, IMO.

The existing one took 6 or 8 years to build, I think, so I hope in 53 years we have a little better knowledge that it wouldn't take twice as long to build another one.