LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- Engineers are expected to release a repair schedule for the Kennedy Bridge this week.
Kentucky Transportation Cabinet, which manages the Interstate 65 crossing between Louisville and Jeffersonville, Indiana, on May 20 that the left three lanes had been shut down for work on the bridge's finger joints. Around 5:30 p.m., KYTC said in a statement that the lanes will remain closed "until further notice ... to avoid damage to vehicles traveling over the bridge."
An image shared with WDRB News shows what appears to be part of a joint completely broken off in one of the lanes. The joint, which resembles interlocking fingers, connects slabs on the 1960s-era bridge’s deck and lets the structure expand and contract.
Three lanes are still open for traffic to get from Jeffersonville to Louisville.
A 2021 WDRB investigation revealed that there were "errors in construction" at the expansion joint when the bridge got a $22 million facelift as part of its conversion to one-way traffic during the Ohio River Bridges Project, which also added the Lincoln and Lewis and Clark toll bridges.Â
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