This is an installment of reporter Julia Fair's series "By the way, NKY." Here, you'll find what's going on in Northern Kentucky.
If there's something you think should be included, email reporter Julia Fair at [email protected]
You asked me about NKY bridge capacities
A few weeks ago, a reader reached out to me after I wrote about how congested the Brent Spence Bridge is.
He asked me: What is the situation with the other major bridges in NKY like the Daniel Carter Beard and the Combs-Hehl. Are they approaching their design capacity as well?
The answer is – kind of. But it's not as bad as the Brent Spence Bridge.
I asked the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet to provide the designed capacity for Northern Kentucky's other four bridges that connects us to Ohio.
I used the average annual daily traffic numbers from thecabinet's websitefrom the most recently available year because there were fewer people driving in 2020 and some bridges didn't have 2019 data available.
The Daniel Carter Beard Bridge, nicknamed the Big Mac Bridge, is over its design capacity. So is the Taylor Southgate Bridge.
The Clay Wade Bailey Bridge has plenty of room. And the Combs-Hehl Bridge, which connects Campbell County to eastern Hamilton Countyi via Interstate 275, is just below its design capacity.
The Enquirer did not include the Roebling Suspension Bridge capacity numbers because it opened in 1866, and was designed for horses and buggies and pedestrians.
Not included: The Carroll Lee Cropper Bridge which carries I-275 over the Ohio River between Indiana and Kentucky.
A cemetery update
If you're a frequent reader, and I hope you are, you'll know I've been oddly fascinated with finding out who is buried in a family cemetery I wrote about in March.
Last update, I told you all that someone who used to mow the cemetery as a childhood chore theorized it could be the Bristow family. He thought that because the road is named after the Bristows, one of the first settlers in the region.
I heard back from Neil Bristow, who wrote a family history blog about his family.
Bristow told me all of his kin are accounted for, so it can't be any members of the Bristow family buried there.
But he did give me a lead. He told me about a book published in 1883 that said the Bristows in-laws lived "in the gore at the Zion Road intersection."
He included a map, too. It showed a Mrs. Conley who lived at the fork in the road.
So... any descendants of a Conley family out there?
COVID-19 resources for NKY residents
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Julia is the Northern Kentucky government reporter through the Report For America program. The Enquirer needs local donors to help fund her grant-funded position. If you want to support Julia's work, you can donate to her Report For America position at this website or email her editor Carl Weiser at [email protected] to find out how you can help fund her work.
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