One of America's Most Hated Bridges is Finally Getting “Fixed”

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I gotta ask, if there's no on/off ramps from the roads and the new bridge is JUST for through-traffic... why does it need to be in the middle of the city?

99% of traffic engineers quit "one more lane bro" before finally fixing traffic

2:02 the absolute annihilation from before to after. It is dumfounding.

As a Cincy resident, I can tell you that the Brent Spence bridge is the most annoying pieces of infrastructure we have. So glad they are rebuilding it. But I have no doubt that the new one will be just as bad. What we really need is a commuter rail system of some kind.

As a University of Cincinnati student living in Covington, KY, and commuting on this bridge daily, there is absolutely no need for a new bridge at the expense of our city centers. They've historically destroyed our city enough. Bring ring back more housing in the West End, invest in commuter rail, and expect traffic congestion during rush hour if you drive a car.

Native Cincinnatian here, on the topic of the “vehicle” part, a lot of traffic is local since Cincinnati is a “sprawling” city rather than condensed. The vast majority of the people who go downtown do not live there, but drive. The best thing would to get a light rail system that allows the suburbs to easily get downtown. That would free up the through traffic, especially freight. Personally, that’s what the majority of the funds should be for. It’s not like we have an abandoned subway (that still has to be maintained) or a massive train station downtown or anything……oh wait….we do 😂

new streetcraft video we cheered!!

What seems crazy about so many American cities is the way that through traffic that has no reason to be in the city is routed right through the middle of the city. Why are drivers on I-71 going from Columbus to Louisville sent through downtown Cincinatti in the first place, instead of the main route bypassing the city altogether?

Will spend billions on highways but zero on rail America is ass backwards

13:15 I like how there are Škoda RegioPanter EMUs with Czech Railways livery in the render. One has just one car for some reason and the other has no space between the cars for bending. And the catenary is way too small, so the trains don't fit under it. And those trains seem to be on the same track. The longer you look at that render the weirder it gets.

I'd love for you to do a video on the replacement of the Cape Cod Bridges.

with $3.6B couldn't they divert those interstates away from downtown? It seems silly to have 2 interstates crossing downtown and piling up with traffic that doesn't even go to or from Cincinnati.

Every time there’s a huge highway project in Cincinnati—or, for that matter, every time I drive past Paul Brown Stadium—I think about the MetroMoves plan and what we could have had. But given the options, voters chose to give the Bengals corporate welfare in the worst stadium funding deal in existence, and decided against creating what could have been a vital piece of public infrastructure to renew the region for decades.

Both cities should work on a streetcar network and have a rail connection to the airport. This will for sure improve living conditions by a lot. This might be an option to scale down those peojects in the future. Foot and bicycle bridges should get build to allow people to cross this major river.

Excellent work! Sadly, Cincinnati has a history of rejecting public transit projects. There are the historic abandoned Cincinnati Subway tunnels, but there was also a plan in the early 2000s called "Metro Moves" that would have developed commuter and light rail from downtown into the suburbs. The half-cent sales tax was voted down by a 2-1 margin by Hamilton County voters in the 2002 election, sadly. They built a transit center under the new Fort Washington Way in 2000, but it's essentially the new abandoned subway for the 21st century, used mostly for school groups visiting the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center. Hopefully they can build extensions of the streetcar across the river and into more neighborhoods, although of course it's limited in capacity by having to share right-of-way with cars.

You are the missing link of all urbanist channels on Youtube! Awesome work, thank you!

I live in the Northern Kentucky Area, so I’ve been passing over this bridge for many years. I can confirm that this bridge is safe and doesn’t really cause many problems. I don’t really think they should add the new bridge, mostly because I’m so used to the Brent Spence bridge and how to go around on it

Having a heavy rail connection to the airport would be a great connection. Earlier the later this bridge had to get replaced. A tunnel would probably cost 10 times more.

Love the videos on my hometown. Hopefully they can do something nice for the west side.