A company from Chicago is the apparent low bidder on the project to build the new Ohio River bridge at Louisville, according to the Courier-Journal. Walsh Construction of Chicago said it could build the bridge for $971.4 million and have it open by Dec. 10, 2016.
Kentucky officials were pleased with the delivery date.
But a guy like me looks at the cost and thinks, almost $1 billion for an Ohio River bridge. Think of what the people who built those narrow bridges nearly a hundred years ago with private capital would have thought about a $1 billion bridge.
Indiana will open bids for its bridge at Lousville tomorrow morning.
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