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On January 17, 1949, the bridge was renamed in honor of George Rogers Clark, recognized as the founder of Louisville and neighboring Clark County, Indiana. [6] The bridge was rehabilitated in 1958. There was a movement in the 1950s to restore tolls, as traffic on the bridge had reached capacity and funding was needed for an additional bridge ...
The John F. Kennedy Memorial Bridge is a six-lane, single-deck cantilever bridge that carries southbound Interstate 65 across the Ohio River, connecting Louisville, Kentucky and Jeffersonville, Indiana. The main span is 700 feet (213 m) (two spans) and the bridge has a total length of 2,498 feet (761 m).
The structure is an additional bridge in downtown Louisville joining the John F. Kennedy Memorial Bridge erected between spring 1961 and late 1963 at a cost of $10 million ($77.5 million in 2015 dollars); the four-lane George Rogers Clark Memorial Bridge, constructed from June 1928 to October 31, 1929, and the Big Four Bridge, which operated as ...
Weeks after Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer called for infrastructure funds to be used to ease Ohio River bridge tolls, Metro Council members joined in.
The governor's budget would directly affect Kentucky's largest city in several ways, including giving tax credits to motorists for bridge tolls.
The design for what was then known as the East End Bridge is the result of the $22.1 million, four-year Ohio River Bridges Study, which found that solving the region's traffic congestion would require the construction of two new bridges across the Ohio River and reconstruction of the Kennedy Interchange in downtown Louisville.
Built in 1961 and reconstructed in 1997, the Sherman Minton Bridge connects Interstate 64 and U.S. 150 from Louisville to New Albany. On average, 81,936 vehicles cross the bridge every day, with 9 ...
The following is a list of toll bridges. ... Abraham Lincoln Bridge: Louisville–Southern Indiana Bridge Authority: I-65 Northbound Ohio River: 2,100.0 640.1