The Lincoln Bridge

[Uncle Dave]

After two and a half years of construction, and more on the way, I crossed the new bridge into Jeffersonville this morning going to work!!!!! When it's finally completed, sometime late 2016, it's going to be such a relief not to have to deal with this mess.

[surveyor]

After two and a half years of construction, and more on the way, I crossed the new bridge into Jeffersonville this morning going to work!!!!! When it's finally competed, sometime late 2016, it's going to be such a relief not to have to deal with this mess.

Yup. It'll be great once the Kennedy's renovated. I travel daily back and forth. South bound at 5 - 6 pm is ridiculous as it is at 7-9 am.

[CATHYnKY]

The bridge construction factored in to me retiring the end of October last year rather than the summer. Would be downtown at 7:10 to 7:15. A couple of times driving to work in the dark and rain made it easy to make the decision. My last day was the Thursday before time changed. Maybe a few years ago I could have tolerated it. Glad sometime down the road drivers will get relieved of the traffic. Wonder if this is going to help West bound traffic on 64. It amazes me how far back it gets w. no accidents. This starts as early as 3 p.m.

[surveyor]

It will immensely help WB 64 traffic. Much of that traffic will choose to take the new east end bridge once it's completed.

[Uncle Dave]

I report for duty in Jeff at 6:00AM, so nobody in their right mind is driving around at 5:45. The morning is easy. I get off at 3:30 and that's when the fun begins. I've seen 65 North backed up from the bridge to well past UofL. Sometimes, particularly Fridays it seems, southbound is the same. I exit at Arthur Street and it's always a relief to get off 65.

[TrueblueCATfan]

My husband travels to Indiana for work too.....Said the new bridge is nice........took him an hour and half to get home this morning because of a wreck on the Kennedy bridge

[teamchemistry15]

When are they closing the Kennedy? Isn't it going to be closed for about six months?

[Joneslab]

Is the bridge construction the reason for the hell that is the Gene Snyder on the east end?

I started work in Frankfort in 2009, worked for almost three years, and can't remember having much trouble on the Snyder except your normal afternoon rush traffic. (I get on at Billtown road and go up to I-64.)

Then I started back in 2013 and since then the Snyder has been a colossal nightmare of unimaginable description. It plagues me daily. I only have to drive on it about 7 miles, but those 7 miles are a slog that add 10 to 15 minutes onto my commute both to and from work. It's the same both ways.

The only thing I can think of that would've caused this change is the bridge has pushed everything back.

[surveyor]

Is the bridge construction the reason for the hell that is the Gene Snyder on the east end?

I started work in Frankfort in 2009, worked for almost three years, and can't remember having much trouble on the Snyder except your normal afternoon rush traffic. (I get on at Billtown road and go up to I-64.)

Then I started back in 2013 and since then the Snyder has been a colossal nightmare of unimaginable description. It plagues me daily. I only have to drive on it about 7 miles, but those 7 miles are a slog that add 10 to 15 minutes onto my commute both to and from work. It's the same both ways.

The only thing I can think of that would've caused this change is the bridge has pushed everything back.

Coming home, going to work, or both?

I would gather the reconfiguration of Spaghetti Junction has impacted Snyder traffic. Wife works East Hurstbourne area and leaves the house at 5:15 am to assure she misses the jam. I-65 north in the afternoon rush is typically backed up to the Watterson because of the Junction reconstruction.

It'll be extremely nice when it's all done.

[Joneslab]

Coming home, going to work, or both?.

Both.

The mornings have been the most confounding, because that's what I can't remember about my stint last time in Frankfort. This is Snyder East going toward I-64; I can never remember too much of a problem at all around 2010. Now it's a brutal nightmare.

At first I thought it was construction up near I-71. But then months passed and the traffic hasn't changed; if anything it's worse. So I've begun to think it has to have something to do with what's happening downtown.

I basically roll from Billtown Rd. to the Taylorsville Rd. exit. Then it'll loseen a little, then I hit another snag right before I-64. It adds at least 30 minutes onto my commute for the day, because that exact area is equally bad when I'm coming home. It's amazing how many people get off and on on Taylorsville Rd.

[Uncle Dave]

The East end has been built up so much over the years. I went to my cardiologist recently off Springhurst Blvd and couldn't believe it. That ALL used to be farmland. Hell, in the early 70's I rabbit and dove hunted all up and down Hurstbourne from Shelbyville Rd. to Taylorsville Rd. Try doing that now lol.

[Joneslab]

The East end has been built up so much over the years. I went to my cardiologist recently off Springhurst Blvd and couldn't believe it. That ALL used to be farmland. Hell, in the early 70's I rabbit and dove hunted all up and down Hurstbourne from Shelbyville Rd. to Taylorsville Rd. Try doing that now lol.

I love hearing about Louisville in the past, mainly because I'm not from here.

There are some interesting documentaries that KET has done about Louisville, and I love seeing the aerial shots of the city. There's one in particular about environmentalists protesting the building of the Louisville airport. There are some shots where that area is just field and scrub.

[Joneslab]

Our first apartment in Louisville, in 2001, was at the corner of Hurstbourne and Stony Brook across the street from the theater. That area had a gas station and almost nothing else. There was just a big field, IIRC, from the gas station to where the Walgreen's sits.

Now there are probably 15 businesses there. Restaurants, a Valvoline, doctor's offices, all kinds of stuff. That's a pretty major change in just 14 years.

[Uncle Dave]

"There's one in particular about environmentalists protesting the building of the Louisville airport. There are some shots where that area is just field and scrub."

Will, that area is a natural wetland area. It's also an area where large numbers of Native Americans are buried, dating back thousands of years. I love living in Louisville. I've had chances to move, but I'm really glad I didn't.

[Joneslab]

"There's one in particular about environmentalists protesting the building of the Louisville airport. There are some shots where that area is just field and scrub."

Will, that area is a natural wetland area. It's also an area where large numbers of Native Americans are buried, dating back thousands of years. I love living in Louisville. I've had chances to move, but I'm really glad I didn't.

It's been awhile since I watched that video, but IIRC one of the complaints was noise pollution for the people who lived in the area.

I think the famous Kentucky poet Wendell Berry was part of those protests.