Downtown Bridge
The Downtown Bridge will be built parallel to the John F. Kennedy Memorial Bridge upstream and will carry six lanes of northbound I-65 traffic. It will also accommodate separate pedestrian and bicycle lanes. The existing I-65 John F. Kennedy Memorial Bridge which was completed in 1963 will be renovated for six lanes of southbound traffic.
A Structured Public Involvement protocol developed by Drs. K. Bailey and T. Grossardt was used to elicit public preferences for the design of the structure. From spring 2005 to summer 2006 several hundred citizens attended a series of public meetings in Louisville, KY and Jeffersonville, IN and evaluated a range of bridge design options using 3D visualizations. This public involvement process focused in on designs that the public felt were more suitable, as shown by their polling scores. The SPI public involvement process itself was evaluated by anonymous, real-time citizen polling at the open public meetings. http://trb.metapress.com/content/g01106864t4r4740/
On July 19, 2006, the final design alternatives for the Downtown Bridge were announced. The three designs included: a three-span arch; a cable-stayed design with three towers; and a cable-stayed type with a single A-shaped support tower. It was also announced that the projected cost for the Downtown Bridge would be $203 million.
This will create an additional bridge in downtown Louisville with the John F. Kennedy Memorial Bridge which construction began in the spring of 1961 and was completed in late 1963 at a cost of $10 million. There is also the 4 lane George Rogers Clark Memorial Bridge which construction began in June 1928 and opened to the public on October 31, 1929.
Read more about this topic: Ohio River Bridges Project
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