Yesterday the Bridges Authority held their monthly meeting to figure out how to pay for Louisville's new bridges. According to the Courier's article:
"won't consider placing tolls on the Second Street bridge.
But the Louisville-Southern Indiana Bridges Authority will evaluate electronic tolls, in some combination, on the region's two planned interstate bridges and the existing Kennedy and Sherman Minton spans."
That sounds like good news for the 20,000 people who use the Clark Memorial Bridge on an average work day. They won't have to pay the $1, $2 or $3 toll planned for the interstate bridges. That's good, right?
Think about it. Just imagine the traffic on the 2nd Street Bridge when it's the only way to get across the river without paying a toll. Talk about "GRIDLOCK".
Wasn't the Bridges Project supposed to improve "cross-river mobility"?
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