America’s two-trillion dollar infrastructure funding gap doesn’t respect party divisions. One more major Ohio River bridge has become too dangerous to cross:
Will Wingfield, a spokesman for the Indiana Department of Transportation, said officials “do not have an estimate” on how long it will take to repair and reopen the bridge, which carries Interstate 64 traffic across the Ohio River.
Wingfield said the cracks were found in two steel support beams below the lower deck closer to the Kentucky side.
The bridge, which links New Albany with Louisville, is maintained by Indiana, and it was closed by order of Gov. Mitch Daniels.
Regardless of whose state is responsible for maintaining it, the bridge is an important access point for Louisville, Kentucky — whose Senator Mitch McConnell wants to cut infrastructure spending. Because why borrow gobs of low-interest cash to fix our bridges when you can just let them fall down on principle?
