View a map of the East End Bridge.
The new East End Bridge carrying traffic on I-265 will include a new six-lane bridge (three northbound, three southbound) crossing the Ohio River just north of Harrods Creek on the Kentucky side to just north of Utica on the Indiana side. The section will connect the Gene Snyder Freeway in Kentucky to the Lee Hamilton Highway in Indiana, completing I-265’s loop around the Louisville/Southern Indiana metropolitan area.
The new bridge will be a median-tower, cable-stayed center cables bridge type, which was the type selected by the Ohio River Bridges Project’s Executive Bridge Type Selection Committee. This body selected the bridge type after an extensive public involvement process narrowed potential bridge types to three selections. The 14-member committee was made up of elected officials and citizen representatives from both Kentucky and Indiana.
The median-tower, cable-stayed center cables bridge includes:
- Two 300-foot towers rising from the center of the bridge deck with cables extending to the roadway median
- Two 12-foot shoulders on either side of the bridge, tapering to eight to nine feet at the towers
- A 17-foot pedestrian/bicycle path along the downstream (west) side of the crossing
Final design for the bridge began in early 2007 after the selection of the final bridge type and is expected to last until 2009. Construction is expected to begin in 2010 with a completion target of 2013.
The Section Design Consultant for the East End Bridge is PB Americas of Louisville, Ky. Steve Slade serves as project manager.
For more information, contact the East End Bridge project team via the online comment form found here.