The Bridge Between Northern Kentucky and Cincinnati, Ohio, Is Falling Apart

The Brint Spence Bridge connects Cincinnati, Ohio and the northern nub of Kentucky on the southern side of the river. The bridge was declared functionally obsolete 25 years ago; it has no breakdown lanes. In November 2020, two semi-trucks hit each other on that bridge,. 100 feet of it were burned so badly in the resulting conflagration that the whole bridge had to be shut down entirely for a month. That one bridge carries 3% of our annual GDP as a nation every year just in terms of the amount of freight that crosses it in trucks.