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\nDrivers will face culture shock Tuesday morning with the end of holiday break and the first real test of tolled bridges in heavy traffic.<\/p>\n
\nDrivers will face culture shock Tuesday morning with the end of holiday break and the first real test of tolled bridges in heavy traffic.<\/p>\n
A lot of people is expected tp take the Second Street bridge from Indiana and not be real familiar with the alternate routes of downtown Louisville.<\/p>\n
Options will be mandatory as Tuesday also begins the closure of Third Street between Market and Jefferson Streets for the next year-and-a-half. <\/p>\n
The section runs underneath the Kentucky International Convention Center, which is undergoing renovation. It carries about 34,000 cars and trucks daily, thanks to the Third Street off ramp from I-64 westbound.<\/p>\n
Contractors for the Kentucky International Convention Center renovation and the $310 million Omni Hotel project nearby have called the closure critical to protecting drivers from falling debris and to giving crews and equipment access to the construction sites.<\/p>\n
Eight officers from the Louisville Metro Police Department’s traffic unit will be staffing downtown during morning and afternoon rush hours, according to LMPD spokesman Dwight Mitchell.<\/p>\n
Procrastination has prompted a run on transponders, the local stickers and multi-state E-Z Pass available through RiverLink. Riverlink manages the tolls for the Kennedy, Lincoln and Lewis and Clark bridges that will pay for the project.<\/p>\n
The result is transponders ordered online through riverlink.com are on back order. They may not arrive in the mail until mid to late February. Supplies available at the Louisville and Jeffersonville Customer Service Centers were expected to be exhausted by mid-week.<\/p>\n
There will be a grace period for everybody who has set-up a pre-paid RiverLink account, and has requested a transponder and is waiting for it. Those drivers will pay the lowest rate until your transponder arrives and those trips will count toward the “frequent crosser” discount available to equipped automobiles utilizing the tolled bridges more than forty times monthly; the equivalent of a five-day workweek. The 41st crossing effectively cuts the one-way toll from $2 to $1.
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