#94 | Blue Ash News with Rachel Murray | The Brent Spence Bridge Corridor Project begins

Celebrating it's distinction of being named the #1 suburb of Cincinnati, Blue Ash Communication's Coordinator Rachel Murray returns with news of upcoming events.

Then, ODOT's Matt Bruning answers questions about the latest barrier to the Brent Spence Bridge Corridor Project that's been hurdled. 

Episode Transcript

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Recent week on iHeart Sincy, wehave tons of events coming up. So
the big one, of course isRed White and Blue Ash. The city
of Blue Ash is celebrating the distinctionof being named the number one suburb of
Cincinnati. Today, my guest isthe communications coordinator Rachel Murray, to update
this on the many events and opportunitiesoffered in Blue Ash this spring and summer,
including one of the biggest Fourth ofJuly events, Red White and Blue

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Ash, and later and so it'sa monumental day for the tri State and
really the nation in a whole.On this big project. The green flag
has dropped and the Bran Smiths BridgeCorridor project just got federal approval for the
project to begin. The Feds wantedto ensure that there are no environmental issues
with the bridge construction and if thereare problems, there are plans to mitigate
them. Matt Bruning is here withthe Ohio Department of Transportation with what comes

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next for this crucial freight corridor forcommerce and commuters. Now on iHeart Sincy
with Sandy Collins, Thanks for listeningto iHeart Sinsey. This show is for
the community to find and resources neededto solve many issues that we face and
like to share stories that embolden anduplift people right here in the tri State.
And one of those people is RachelMurray. Welcome back, Rachel to

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the Blue Ash bulletin of some sort. Yes, welcome to iHeart since you
again. It's been a while sinceyou've been here. But boy, Blue
Ash is busy. Yes, weare very busy, and I've seen your
name coming up in a lot ofdifferent ways, news wise, infrastructure wise,
fun wise. Yes, So let'sget to it. What's happening in

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Blue Ash. The first thing wasthe car breakings that have been hitting the
news here in the last Yeah,so it's not just in Blue Ash,
but it's everywhere. And you knowthe message that our police chief wanted to
get out, Scott Nole. Hewanted everybody to know that it's not just
okay anymore to hide belongings in yourcar, Like don't put things in your

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trunk like it used to be.You know, just make sure things are
hidden and you're gonna be okay.But now these criminals are using the punches
for the windows that are typically usedfor people who need to escape from the
inside of the car, so itshatters the window like instantaneously, and they're
able to hit like dozens of carsin just a few minutes, and they

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bust the windows, rifle through thecar, pop the trunk, get in
the trunk, and get whatever's inthere. So now you know the rule
of thumb is make sure you takeall your valuables with you. Don't leave
anything in the car. A lotof people leave their computers in their trunks.
I know, reporters and stuff haveall their gear that they leave in
there, and then they just goto work every day. That is not

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good news for them or for anybodyelse, even the police department. I
know a lot of the officers securetheir stuff in the back. I wonder
if that's going to change policies.I don't know, honestly, what they
do with their equipment afterward, youknow, after a shift. I've just
talked to police officers in the pastwhere they said, you know, I
was off duty, but I gotinto my trunk and got my whatever,
right, you know, because they'realways basically on duty when you're cop,

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and they do such a good job. Speaking of cops, yes, I'd
like to thank Officer Huff who veryrapidly was dispatched to one parking lot in
Blue Ash with one intrepid radio reporterpodcast host who, for the first time

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in her decades of living locked herkeys in the car, and who would
that possibly be. Well, Icouldn't believe it. I've never locked my
keys in my car, and I'vebeen I've worn that like a badge of
honor, you know. And Idon't have the fancy safeguards on my car.
My car is pretty old and it'sin great shape. And I had

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pulled the key out and put itin the console for a second while I
was doing something, and then Igot out of the car and boom,
locked it. So thank you,officer Huff. What's what's his name?
Jason? Jason, Jason Huff.You told me the Blue Ash cops were
nice. Yes, he really isnice. Well, I'm glad, he
said, I'm glad to take youknow, I'm glad to do I said,
oh my gosh, I can't believeyou still guys still do this.

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And he says, oh, it'syou know, I love I love helping
people out. Yeah. So,and a good bunch. He's a good
man. Okay, So with thosecar break ins, let's get back to
that take all your belongings out ofyour your vehicles, and then does it

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help to keep a camera on yourcar? I mean even I mean they
don't. They don't always get muchjail timer they don't. They're hard to
catch because they're so fast. Butyeah, I mean that that could obviously
be a good deterrent for one thing, but it could also capture a nice
picture of somebody doing it, whichcould help you know, figure out who
the suspects are. Yeah, sothey got a couple of people that yeah,

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in Westchester. I believe they nabsome and I know our investigations ongoing.
But yeah, well it's it's scaryto think you can't park your locked
car outside anymore. Yeah, nothave to worry about that. What else?
You have a road closure that's canbe pretty significant? Well, I
mean it really in the long run, it's gonna be really inconvenient for a

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lot of people, especially people whomaybe just traveling through Blue Ash on the
day to day. But it's abridge on Kenwood Road. It's a short
little bridge, but it's failing andso they're going to have to replace it.
And also the pedestrian bridge that goesalong with it. And this is
between Feifer Road and zig Zag Road. The closure is going to start on
June the third, and it's expectedto last about two and a half months.

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But the detour is super simple.Glendale Milford Road to read Hartman Highway
to Malsbury Road and back again.I mean it might add five minutes onto
your travel time, but I thinka lot of people are going to be
surprised by it, you know.So I'm sure you have signs up that
yarn people of it now and therewill be signs going on. Oh okay,
yeah, so it's in June.Yeah, June third. Okay,

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So ken Wood Road bridge closure comingup in June, so you'll have to
get used to that along with allthe other construction that we're getting used to
around. Yeah, it's that season, Orange barrel season. Tell me about
the worker who helped recover that youngboy. Yeah, missing. So we
had a missing child. I thinkhe was missing for several hours, and

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you know, the police were gettingready to go, you know, full
on emergency situation, like have likea headquarters for an emergency to help find
this child, and one of ourpublic works staff members just happened to see
the boy like he peeked out fromsome bushes buy some train tracks and the
worker was just out doing his regularlike brush pick up and called police and

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ended up finding him. He wasfine and returned safely to his family.
And it just ended really well andreally quickly. Did the worker know that
the boy was missing or did hejust did he had seen He had actually
seen, like I think it wasa friend's Facebook share of the police departments
post, and he just was like, Hey, there's a kid. There's
a kid over there. Yeah.So they found him and he was safe

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and sound, and Police Chief ScottNoll issued a commendation from the police department
for his help and he was reallyappreciated. Ah, that's very cool.
Yes. What's the worker's name,Kyle Seacrest. Kyle, congratulations, you're
a good man. Thank you forwhat you do every day for the city
and also for helping out there.There is so much going on in Blue

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Ash. I'm talking with Rachel Murray, who was in charge of communications and
where where do you want to go? Well, we can talk about events
now because we have tons of eventscoming up. So the big one of
course is Red White and Blue Ash. It is Mad Tree, Red White
and Blue Ash this year and we'veannounced the acts. It's going to be
Judah and the Lion they're the headliner, and then Mother Folk is the opener,

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and of course we've got Arthur Rozzipyrotechnic fireworks. Again. It's going
to be a great time. Thewhole event starts at six at Summit Park
on July the fourth, so wehope to see the tens of thousands of
pe people we see every year outthere. Again. It's really pretty easy
if you haven't gone to the Red, White and Blue Ash fireworks and you're
not from Blue Ash itself, youwant to go enjoy it. Really.
There's a lot of parking, yeah, and it's it doesn't it doesn't you

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know, it really clogged and've gotthose nice roundabouts so that people can just
easily navigate and it clears out prettyfast. And the thing to remember,
it's like the closer you park tothe event, the longer it's going to
take you to get out. Soyou want kind of park you know,
in a parking want of that's kindof far way. And we partner with
a lot of the businesses around soyou know, we got all the great
corporate parking all around there. WhatI'll do is I'll park three blocks away

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and then I'll call for Uber.You don't work too, that'll work too.
But another thing, we want toremind people of this event and there
are no tickets required because a lotof times we'll have, you know,
some jady individuals post on our Facebookposts and Instagram posts saying I'll get your
tickets here and not for this,that some other events that are completely free,

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So you have to watch out forthat, and just remember our city
events are free unless otherwise noted somewhere. But we're not going to post in
a comment like, oh, getyour tickets here, or or sign up
for vendor stuff like we have peoplesaying, oh we still have vender spots
available, and it's totally scammers doingOh my gosh, you know, that's
the first I've heard of this really. Yeah. Yeah, it's not just

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us. It happens to government andother entities all around the country all the
time. Wow. Yeah, theyjust find new ways to try to get
you. Yeah. Well, andyou are unaware because you know, maybe
you've got your own little art studioand you want to sell your art at
the Red, White and Blue Ashand then all of a sudden you see
that you sign up and you're scam. Yep, and just remember all the

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official information is always on our websiteblue ash dot com. Wow. Yeah,
that's good to know. Memorial Dayscoming up. I saw I've never
been to the Memorial Day because Ialways have to work. Yeah, but
I saw photographs and it is monster. Yeah, it is a huge event
and it's actually I think I'm goingto be a little bit bigger this year
the parade. We've got a lotof new organizations and community groups that are

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coming together to put together some coolthings for the parade. So that's really
exciting. But it's always a goodtime, always well attended. And then
we have a really nice ceremony afterthat's going to be in the Cancer Support
Community parking lot, and we havea general that's going to be speaking.
General Randolph he was in the AirForce and you know, was served as

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a high ranking individual in the Departmentof Defense, I believe, and so
and he's I believe he's a BlueAsh native too, so he lives in
Blue Ash currently. So it's prettyexciting. That's very good. Yeah,
and that's one of the great reasonswhy Blue Ash is considered the number one
suburb of Cincinnack. Yes, wewere really excited. Ranker came out or
sorry not rankor Stacker came out andthey used some data from another website called

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niche that ranked us the number oneplace to live in Ohio and the sixteenth
best place to live in America.And then this other news stacker came along
and said, we're going to lookat this data again and then they determined
that Blue Ash is the best suburbin Cincinnati. So it was great news
for us. We love it.So the people in Marymott came in second.

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Yeah, third place, Mason fourth, Madeira, don't want to forget
about Madeira fifth, Montgomery six,Wyoming Ken, what is seventh? Sixteen,
Miles stand at eight, Indian Hillis nine, and Evendale was ten.
I won't go through the rest ofthem, but yeah, so what
does that do for you for thepublic servants that work in the city and
the guys that are working so hard, Yeah, I mean it can get

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together. Yeah, it gives them, you know, a sense of pride
and what they're doing and that youknow, what the city does is being
recognized, you know, in awidespread way, and you know, to
have that ranking. It's like,we're all very proud of it, you
know, it's it's amazing. Sodo I remember correctly one of our previous
shows about creating a downtown part ofBlue Ash. Yes, So right now

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town Square, which is like ourconcert venue slash event venue, it's still
under construction. There have been alot of delays. It's been really unfortunate,
but you know, with supply chainissues still lingering from COVID and things
like, things have just been reallyslow going. But they're hoping to have
everything done by the end of summer. So we're hoping to have at least
a couple concerts there this summer andthen this this past week. Where is

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it. Oh, it's downtown atKenwood and Cooper. There's some businesses down
there, restaurants and things, andwe're trying to really elevate that space to
make it a more alive at fiveafter five area. So we're also considering
a Dora City Council is going tovote on that on June the thirteenth,

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I believe, And we've had suchsuccess with the Summit Park Dora that we,
you know, thought it would bea great addition for downtown because one
of the goals of the city isto make it more alive after five.
You know, with all the employeesthat work in all the businesses around there,
you know, they tend to goto work and then they bolt,
you know, they're leaving. Sowe want to keep them around. But
we also want to give our residents, you know, in surrounding neighborhood communities,

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a chance to have some fun inBlue Ash. So that's what we're
that's what we're doing. Do youthink there's anybody that doesn't know what a
Dora is? By now? Shouldwe explain it? Really? You can?
Yeah, I mean it's a designatedoutdoor freshman area, so you can
buy a Typically in most places,you buy like a special cup that you
can carry around and you take yourDora cup with an alcoholic beverage and you

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can walk around in certain areas ofcommunity. Yeah. So like the whole
Banks downtown is a Dora. Where'sthe Dora in Blue Ash Summit Park?
Yeah, so you can buy somethingat one of the restaurants there, yea,
and then you can ground the park. Yeah, it's it seems it
seems funny that that that's illegal,but it is. And then you have
to make it not illegal in orderto you know, get people to come.

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Yeah, but we've had we've hadthe door at Summit Park now for
two years and haven't had any incidents. Why you would, Yeah, that's
the whole point. Yeah, Ithink outdoor liquor laws are so antiquated.
I mean, if people are youknow, outside smoking weed now right,
you know what? You know,what else is there? There's a free

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shooting up area over here for heroinaddicts. You know. It's like,
no, we don't want it togo that far. Okay, Yeah,
let's talk about some family fun.You've got a touch a truck towards the
end of May, yes, andwhat is that exactly? So it's a
chance for kids to get up closeand personal with all the big trucks and

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equipment that the public works team uses. I mean we've got you know,
like I don't know all the technicalnames, but like diggers and wheel loaders
and snow plows and everything. Andwe actually just concluded our name applow contest
for this year. Do you wantto know what the answer is? Scoopy

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Doo. Isn't that cute? Thatis very cute? What do you remember
the other names of the other truck. So we've got Blizzard and we've got
control, Salt delete, and nowScoopy do. That is so funny.
Did somebody win that contest? Yes, and she is gonna, I believe,
pick up her prize. She getsa Lego prize pack. Oh that's

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so much fun. I love thatkind of stuff and people are so creative.
It's just hilarious. I have tosay that was my favorite name,
although I did not vote, butthat was definitely my favorite of all the
submissions. I love it. Sowe all learned to ride bikes when we
were kids, and it's shocking tome that a lot of children these days

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don't know how to ride bikes.They don't ride bikes anymore. The kids
are not out, they're not allowedout of their house because parents are so
afraid of, you know, ofsomething happening, except for in Blue Ash,
the number one community in Cincinnati.But the spike rodeo I saw it
looks really good because you know,the police department comes out and they helped

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teach these kids how to ride abike. Yes, yes, so they
do like obstacle courses and things likethat. It's very educational for the kids
and it's funny, like there's somany really small little kids that come out
and they have like these scooter bikes. I've never seen this before, like
the number training wheels. Yeah,they don't have pedals, they just scoot
around and it is the cutest thingI've ever seen. But yes, the

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bike Rodeo is coming up on Junefifth from four to seven. They typically
have tons of free bike helmets,so you want to get there early and
snagger kid a free bike helmet.It's a really awesome thing. Important and
then of course some free snacks andsuch. But yeah, it's always a
good time. So where's that goingto be held? Oh that's at Summit
Park as well, and you don'thave to register for that. No tickets,

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no nothing, all right, Sois that us? What days a
week it's at? That is ait's a Wednesday Wednesday, Okay, So
it's on Wednesday, June the fifth, starts at four. It's Summit Park.
And yeah, I saw those scooterbikes. Speaking of like little videos,
I saw one where this guy hascreated a little almost like a freestyle

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bike course through his house and outthe door, and it's a kid's on
a scooter bike and so he's flyingthrough the living room and then out the
door and down and over the lawnchairs and then back up and it's just
like that kid doesn't have any petals. What is he doing? Yeah?
Those are apparently it was flying theyYeah, what else for families, So

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well, let's see for families,We've got some Summit Cinema movies coming up
on June the sixth. They aredoing Wonka and they also are having Great
Parks Hamilton County come up and theyshow some off some animals and things and
teach kids about nature. So there'slike it's like a double feature for you
when you come up to when isthat? That is on June the sixth
at seven thirty pm. The moviestarts at dusk. So if you miss

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any of this information, you'll beable to hear this on the iHeartRadio app
under podcasts it's iHeart Sinsey and we'llpost this coming up on the day after
it airs so that everybody can listenand share it too, because especially if
you want to bring your friends andyeah, there's a lot of information in
this show. We're trying to getto you. Yes, And another thing

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we haven't mentioned yet is the freeFitness at sum At Park. So there
are classes. They actually started onWednesday, the eighth, and they run
all through the summer free fitness.They do yoga, they do high intensity
kind of workouts, all kinds ofdifferent things. But it's a turnout for
something like that, hits it depends. I mean, but are the yoga
especially like it'll fill up the entiregreat line almost like it is a lot

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of people. Is a lot ofpeople? Wow, I know there's a
lot of yogi's in this town.Yeah, it is just amazing to see
that. But you can check allthat information out at the Summit Park website,
which is sum At Park blue ashdot com. Why is that separate
because sum At Park is like itsown entity in a way. I mean,
even though it's part of Blue Ashbut you know, it's such a

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wide draw we wanted to make sureit had like a separate place for people
to go there. You go,very good. Any other construction things,
any other roundabouts coming up? No, no new roundabouts as far as I
know. That look that I justgot, folks, was one of I'm
not sure. I can't say,but well, congratulations on being the number

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one suburb of Cincinnati. Blue Ash, and I got to thank all the
residents and people who voted, becauseit is partly based on like other people's
ratings. So it's our residence goingon that website and saying five stars,
five stars, keep it up,people, we love it. Coming up
in an upcoming episode, we're goingto be talking to the folks out in

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Westchester and Liberty Township and the explosionof business and entertainment and food and living
all that corridor from Westchester up toAustin landing up in the Dayton area,
and how this is just all justexploding and turning into one giant metro flex
And I think Blue Ash is reallya part of that too, with such

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a draw off, such great employersand a great place to live. So
thank you Rachel Murray from Blue Ash. My pleasure. It's the Bluegrass bulletin.
No, it is not no Banjostoday, Blue Ash, Blue Ash.
Yes, thank you. There's moreiHeart Cincy coming up. They're still

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working out what type of bridge itwill be, will be Cable's Day,
will it be Arch, will besomething else. I mean, that's still
part of the conversation is going onnow. A full update on the Brent
Spence Bridge Corridor project, a billiondollar improvement for the Tri State and literally
the eastern portion of the US.That's coming up on my heart since this

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Cincy, the Tri State public affairsshow produced in Cincinnati for this iHeartRadio station.
While the Tri State got some bignews on Friday, and I wanted

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to share that with you in depth, if you will. The Brent Spence
Bridge Project has been given the goahead from the Federal Highway Administration. Now,
this final federal environmental approval is thegreen light for Ohio and Kentucky to
move forward with this project that's beenin the works for more than twenty years.
If you're new to this area,let me give you a little background

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on the bridge now. The BrentSpence Bridge is named for Kentucky's longest serving
congressman at the time. This isback in nineteen sixty three. Brent Spence
was a native of Newport. Hewas an attorney, a banker, Democratic
congressman. He was born on theday before Christmas in eighteen seventy four.

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Spence graduated from the University of Cincinnatiwith a law degree when he was twenty.
He served many years in local andstate politics and worked in Congress on
some of the biggest issues of theirday, President Roosevelt's New Deal, the
Social Security Act, and so muchmore at that time. Spence retired after
thirty years in Congress in January ofnineteen sixty three, and the bridge that

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now carries his name opened up innineteen sixty four. It was named by
Kentucky's Governor, Bert T. Colmes. Spence did not believe that he deserved
the honor of having the bridge namedafter him, and he lobbied to have
the bridge named after President Kennedy,who was assassinated in November sixty three,
but Governor Combs wanted to honor Spencefor his lifetime of service to the people

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of Kentucky. Brent Spence lived Dandied in Fort Thomas, Kentucky, in
September nineteen sixty seven, and hisbody is interred in Evergreen Cemetery in Southgate,
Kentucky. At the beginning, thebridge only had three lanes with emergency
shoulders removed, and then they restripedthe Brent Spence Bridge to four lanes in

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both directions a few years later.It was built to carry about eighty thousand
vehicles a day, but today thenumber of vehicles has nearly doubled. The
Oki Regional Council of Governments estimates aboutone hundred and sixty thousand vehicles crossed the
river every day, and that includesthirty thousand heavy trucks. That amount of
traffic chokes traveled that morning and afternoondrive times. As you probably know,

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so over twenty years, so countlesspeople have been working both sides of the
river and in Washington to improve thesituation. Suggesting for a long time about
making it a toll bridge. Thatdidn't go over well with anyone, as
you might expect. Finally, PresidentBiden's Infrastructure Bill passed with support from both
political parties and allocated billions of dollarsto make the project happen, with Kentucky

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and Ohio kicking in millions as well. So they're planning to build another bridge
across the river and reroute traffic passingthrough the region on one bridge and then
route local traffic on the other.The final design of the Brent Spence Bridge
project hasn't been decided yet, theyare working on it. On Friday,
we talked with Matt Brooning from theOhio Department of Transportation about the final federal

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approval given to start the next phaseof the bridge development. We've got a
lot of work to do before wereally start digging in and moving dirt,
but that work is progressing. Thisis a big step towards getting us to
that point, and so it's amonumental day for the tri State and really
the nation and a whole on thisbig project. We couldn't move forward on
construction until we got the federal governmentto agree that we had no significant impacts

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from the project to the environment,and if we did have any issues,
that we were mitigating this properly.They've given us the approval for that.
So now we can move on tothe next phase of the project, which
ultimately will be construction here soon.So Bruning told us that their design team
has been working on the bridge designbecause that's what everybody wants to see.
We still have to pick the finaldesign of the actual river crossing, the

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bridge itself that will come on downthe road as well. So there are
several steps that have to occur beforewe start really moving dirt on this project.
So, you know, it's aslow process, unfortunately, but one
we want to make sure we getright because we're going to have to live
with this for decades to come.Obviously, now we've seen ideas floated about,
you know, renderings of what typeof bridge it could be, and

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Bruning said that that is also stillin the works. They're still working out
what type of bridge it will be, will be cable, stay, will
it be arch, will it besomething else. I mean, that's still
part of the conversation that's going onnow. But there are several design elements
with the project as a whole thatare still going, you know, still
ongoing. The hire Department of Transportationand the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet got a lot

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of input from the stakeholders. Everybody, including the residents of Northern Kentucky,
business owners are going to be affected, and anyone else who wanted to chime
in. Gotten a lot of publicfeedback. I mean, you look at
it. We've done sixteen neighborhood meetings, to open house events, all of
that just since late twenty twenty twoto make sure that our plan is solid

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and that the public understands what we'redoing, and that the public understands how
we're going to mitigate in the issuesthat may come up. Well, this
bridge isn't going to be built overnight, obviously, it's going to take about
five years. With the completion dateof twenty twenty nine. This corridor is
going to need a lot of steelworkers, construction workers, heavy equipment mechanics,
construction inspectors, carpenters, logistics managers, you name it. The project

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has a website dedicated to the BrentSpence Bridge Quarter. It's called Brent Spence
Bridge Quarter. Dot com. That'spretty convenient. You can explore construction careers
for this project. If you're thinkingabout getting into the trades, or if
you would want to try a secondcareer. You still got time to get
some training you need to be apart of this enormous undertaking. Now that

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the environmental study is complete and approved, the next steps come slowly, but
we certainly expect that you'll see someconstruction starting at some point, maybe in
twenty twenty five would be our hope, with the bridge opening obviously, and
a couple of years after that twentytwenty nine, twenty thirty, somewhere in
that timeframe, and making the announcementabout moving forward with the project. Both

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Governors Basher and Dwine issued statements onFriday. B Cher said the federal approval
is a major milestone for us,and we're grateful to all of our partners
and communities for their feedback. Welook forward to completing this project, which
will further boost our economic growth andcreate more good jobs for our families.
Mike Dwin said in his statement toproject, we'll address one of the worst

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bottlenecks in the nation by improving safetyand travel on an interstate connection. That
carries more than four hundred billion dollarsworth of freight every year end quote.
So the one point six billion dollarBrent Spence Bridge project approved and the Bipartisan
Infrastructure and Jobs Investment Act passed inDecember of twenty twenty two, and it's

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now moving forward. It'll stretch fromthe Western Hills Viaduct here in Ohio to
Dixie Highway in Northern Kentucky. Sothat's where we stand. Hope that was
helpful in knowing a little bit moreabout the man whom the bridge is named
after and how we're moving forward tomake Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky's transportation cord are
better for commerce and commuters who travelthis interstate that stretches from Canada all the

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way down to Florida. The websiteagain to check out this project and find
out about construction jobs and being apart of it. Brent Spence Bridge Quarter
dot com. If you've got questionsor comments about this project, you can
send them to me and we'll askthose questions to get the answers you're looking
for. The email address is Iheartsinseyat iHeartMedia dot com. You can hear

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this show for free on the iHeartRadioapp. Just look under podcasts for iHeart
Sinsey with Sandy Collins. Thanks toMatt Bruening from odot and also thanks to
my first guest, Rachel Murray,communications coordinator for the City of Blue Ash
their website Bluash dot com. Allthe events that we talked about today are
right there. That's iHeart Sinsey forthis week. If you've got a comment

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or question, send me an emailIheartsincy at iHeartMedia dot com. We'll see
you back here on this iHeartRadio stationnext week. Iheartsincy is a production of
iHeartMedia Cincinnati,