Ohio River Bridges Project

Seeing Southern Indiana: Creating Positive Change on the Waterfront

Last year I was looking around Louisville for areas of unrealized potential. I dutifully followed Broken Sidewalk for development announcements. I kept up with...

Indiana’s Bridge Boondoggle, Part 4: A Better Plan

In the first three parts of this series, I discussed how Indiana so badly botched its negotiation with Kentucky on the Louisville bridges project...

Indiana’s Bridge Boondoggle, Part 3: INDOT’s Mini-Big Dig

In previous installments in this series I highlighted how Indiana managed to increase its share of the Louisville bridges project by $200 million even...

Indiana’s Bridge Boondoggle, Part 2: Hoosiers Pay Even More With Tolls

In part one of this series I examined how Indiana managed to give away $1.7 billion to the state of Kentucky in renegotiating the...

Indiana’s Bridge Deal Boondoggle, Part 1: A Financial Fiasco

- Indiana gives away $1.7 billion to Kentucky - - Indiana’s costs up by $200 million while total project costs decline by $1.5 billion - -...

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...

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...