Let's
call it 10 years if not more of government incompetence, crooked
state legislators, crooked governors and ran by a unaccountable
company not even from this region. Much less the fact that Kentucky
didn't have the funds available for their half of the Ohio River
Bridges Project much less the money for the East End Tunnel that
Indiana has to pay for even though its in Kentucky. Why do the
taxpayers of Indiana have to pay for an asset that is in another
state going under an old estate where someone supposedly famous might
have stayed there 200 years ago or so.
Add
in the fact that Kentucky has been fiscally busted for years and the
fact it is still fiscally busted to the tune of needing hundreds of
millions of dollars just to maintain the infrastructure at a D level
grade for bridges, it speaks volumes about the fiscal mismanagement
that has been occurring in the Commonwealth of Kentucky not only for
10 years but going back decades.
Considering
that the East End bridges were formulated via the Interstate Road
System maps back in 1970 or so and not completed until 2016-2017
speaks volumes about the incompetence of not only the government of
Jefferson County/Louisville Metro but also the Kentucky governors and
Kentucky transportation cabinet. Even more laughable is the fact that
the approaches to the East End bridge was largely ready at interstate
grade decades ago with 265 in Indiana ending just less than a mile
from the Ohio River and this has been the case for decades.
Even
worse is that the SO CALLED business leadership around Louisville
including the whole Louisville chamber and the backers at the Courier
and other institutions worked to scuttle the bridge plans that were
known about going back to about 1970. Not to mention the cancerous
effects of such things as River Fields and the like pushing an
anti-transportation and anti-progress agenda only to protect the
Mockingbird Valley crowd and those around Prospect that wanted to
throw a fit because they couldn't have their way which finally ended
this last decade.
Since
1970, there have been at least 6 Louisville Mayors with nearly 45
years of so called community service between all of them who couldn't
get the job done. The business community in Louisville couldn't get
the job done but that's because they are a largely feckless bunch
still acting in provincial ways while the region faltered
increasingly economically and was passed by years ago by cities like
Nashville (smaller than Louisville), Cincinnati, Indianapolis,
Charlotte, KC, etc. All cities in the same basic size and population
as Louisville.
Now
in 2020, we have an unaccountable para governmental private company
managing the tolls for the varied bridges including the Kennedy,
Lincoln and East End bridges. An unaccountable system where people
get bogus bills for not even driving across those bridges because
their vehicles weren't able to be driven in one case because the
person was dead. Furthermore, the bogus charges and lack of
management accountability whereas the people are paying as much 8.40
per trip across the bridges and in some cases probably pay much more
in order to conduct business operations. All because of fiscal
malfeasance of various parties including the Kentucky State
Government, Louisville Metro and even in some cases Indiana though
Indiana did have their funding already determined prior to the
beginning of construction back in 2012-2013.
This
isn't infrastructure improvement in a lot of ways that could have
been done with responsible government spending and planning ahead.
This is government gone amok with the ability to put another hidden
tax on the population in order to do another governmental shakedown
of the population. Not to mention government waste and inefficiency
hiring a company in Texas to manage the local shakedown of the
economy and taxpayers and users both in Indiana and Kentucky. That's
the type of criminal government we should all be watching instead of
remaining clueless about the type of people running this government.
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