April 2008 - Recommendations on the shape, color and other aesthetic features
elements of the East End Bridge for the Louisville-Southern Indiana Ohio River Bridges
Project are now set for final consideration. The proposed features are the result
of feedback from the public and several community groups. The public involvement
process was instrumental in determining the bridge's overall theme, color, texture
and lighting.
"We really focused on the bucolic setting of the East End Bridge site,"
says Steve Slade, Section Design Manager for the East End Bridge. "We feel
our design elements complement the landscape, not compete with it."
The recommendation for the overall theme of the bridge is that the design be "curvilinear,"
characterized by curved lines reflected in the tower shape, piers, bicycle/pedestrian
pathway railings and roadway lighting standards.
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December 2007 - River barge pilots discovered recently what it's like to
maneuver with two new bridges connecting Jefferson County, Ky., with southern Indiana.
The Seamen's Church Institute (SCI) conducted computer simulations based on the
bridge types selected for the new Downtown and East End Bridges. The simulations,
generated by a technology never before used for bridge projects in Kentucky or Indiana,
were run by professional pilots Nov. 8 and 9, 2007, at SCI's Paducah, Ky., facility.
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September 2007 - The dialogue that helped produce two bridge types in Dec.
2006 was renewed in mid-August 2007 when Bridges Project engineers and officials
met with two key stakeholder groups. Engineers from the Downtown and East End Bridge
design teams reconvened their respective area advisory teams (AAT) to discuss bridge
design aspects that will lend character and establish presence.
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July 2007 - Engineers designing the new Downtown and East End Ohio River
Bridges this month gathered information about the rock formations that will support
the river piers for both bridges. Geotechnical explorations of the river bottom
at the pier locations will provide information important to design of the river
piers at both bridge locations.
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