It's the Monday morning of your dreams, Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky drivers.
The Brent Spence Bridge is back and fully open. All ramps, all lanes, no excuses, no delays.
The northbound lanes opened Sunday, a week ahead of schedule. But there were overnight lane closures to install new overhead signs and "pavement tattoos." Yes, not just fresh paint, our bridge also got new tattoos – for those Michigan drivers who need a little extra help finding their lane.
It's been a while since we have had four glorious lanes to choose from while driving across the bridge. The project to clean and paint the bridge started in March.
It's been eight months of 160,000 vehicles a day, according to traffic counts, squeezing into two lanes, finding other routes and clogging up local streets.
It's been eight months of zipper-mergers wondering if they will get flipped-off or allowed in. Eight months of Google Maps and Waze directing interstate drivers to Pike and Main streets in Covington and over the Roebling Bridge. Eight months of leaving 20 minutes early and still arriving 20 minutes late.
Was it worth it all?
This was the first time in nearly 30 years that the 58-year-old bridge over the Ohio River has been painted. So there's that.
About the bridge:Who is Brent Spence, anyway?
The new color is rather drab and the drumbeat for a Brent Spence replacement has been amping up. But this is what we have for now: four lanes, no shoulders, gray paint, road tats.
Don't mess it up.
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