Bridges
Work To Complete Big Four Bridge Underway
Now that the 60-foot-tall elliptical spiraling ramp up to the top of the Big Four Bridge in Waterfront Park has been completed for some...
Jasper Ward’s Big Four Bridge
Jasper Ward, the architect behind a proposal to turn a grain silo into a major housing development in the 1960s along with many other buildings...
Structurally Deficient Demagoguery
After a recent inspection, the Kennedy Bridge was again rated as "structurally deficient," a title it's held for several years. Sounds bad, right? In...
Bridges Project Turns Second Street Bridge Into An Off-Ramp
It's been a while since I dissected the unpublicized and unknown components of the Ohio River Bridges Project (the really scary stuff is over...
Catching Up With A Slow Moving Highway Disaster
It's been a little while since we have talked about that slow moving disaster ready to stamp out so much progress being made in...
Back When The Sherman-Minton Was New
Over the weekend I came across the new Popular Science online archives. A quick search for Louisville turned up a snippet from May 1960...
Another Call For A Toll Free Bridges Solution
Steve Wiser, a local architect, historian, and occasional contributor to Broken Sidewalk, has been tweaking his proposal for a solution to the Ohio River Bridges...
Video: Big Four Bridge Will Offer A Big View
Now that the elliptical ramp up to the Big Four Bridge has been set into place sans its concrete walkway, Doug Proffitt of Whas11...
Snapshot: Pedestrian Bridge Spiral Airborne
Thanks to local architect Steve Wiser for sending in these photos of the Big Four pedestrian and bike bridge in Waterfront Park. Now that...