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The Need

 

 Our transportation infrastructure is the linchpin to growing our region’s economy.

• This region is invested in logistics as a major driver of our future economic growth.
• A safe, efficient highway system is required to protect our region’s 147,000 jobs in logistics and manufacturing.
• We have a solid and substantial rail network, we’ve invested heavily in expanding and modernizing the airport, and we’ve upgraded river transportation.  Our highway infrastructure is the missing link.

None of the region’s three existing Ohio River bridges meet safety standards and neither does Spaghetti Junction, where I-65, I-64 and I-71 converge at the base of the Kennedy Bridge.

 

• The Kennedy Bridge already carries more traffic than it was designed to handle, and is rated “structurally deficient.” 
• Both the Kennedy and Clark Memorial bridges’ shoulder lanes have been converted for traffic during the last decade, leaving both bridges with more traffic lanes than they were designed to hold, and making emergency access more difficult. 
• In Spaghetti Junction, crashes occur twice a day on average.  There are two fatalities per year on average. 
• In the fast-growing eastern region, there is a five-mile gap between cross-river highway links. As a result, all traffic is forced downtown.