Written by Bryan Burke and Michael Monks for The River City News
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The Brent Spence Bridge, via UrbanCincy.com |
A proposal tossed out this week by Kentucky Agriculture Commissioner
James Comer & State Senator
Chris McDaniel (R-Taylor Mill) related to constructing a bridge over the Licking River from Fort Thomas to Newtown, Ohio has not been well received by local leaders, has been ridiculed on talk radio, has concerned Campbell County Judge-Executive
Steve Pendery, and has not been pitched to the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet yet.
Comer is running for governor in 2015 with McDaniel as his running mate. They face Louisville businessman Hal Heiner and former Kentucky Supreme Court Justice Will T. Scot in a 3-way Republican primary slated for May. McDaniel previously called for a "reset" in the Brent Spence conversation during a December forum in Covington.
When asked of the feasibility of such a project proposed by the gubernatorial ticket, Chief District Engineer of the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet - District 6,
Rob Hans carefully pointed to the study done in 2003 when the area was assessed and improvements for the Brent Spence Corridor were recommended based off of that study's findings.