LEO's Meador notes the obvious: There's still about $2 billion to cut from the ORBP.

As so many of us have been saying all damned afternoon, the very fact that two governors and a mayor now begin talking about "downsizing" the ORBP means that everyone involved has been lying all along about the impossibility of changing the scope of the project without some form of celestial intervention.

Label me suspicious, because to date, listening to virtually any of Bridges Authority kingpin Kerry Stemler's condescending spoutings has brought to mind Hunter S. Thompson's apt description of Richard Nixon:

"Nixon was so crooked that he needed servants to help him screw his pants on every morning."

LEO's Jonathan Meador is totally on course with his assessment. Who else is in for Thursday's meeting?

Small victory for common sense in Ohio River Bridges Project… maybe?

... Here’s a bet: Ask anybody who knows about this project and isn’t getting paid by the Bridges Coalition, 1 Southern Indiana or Greater Louisville, Inc., and they’ll most likely tell you that an East Bridge would alleviate roughly a third (or so) of the expected traffic a proposed Downtown bridge might experience. So, why not expand the East End bridge, not shrink it, and do away with the downtown portion altogether? Or a series of low-cost local access bridges (Warnin’: PDF)?

(Oh, shit: Now I remember why…)

Needless to say, this week’s meeting of the Bridges Authority (to be held Thursday, January 6, at 10:00 a.m. at New Albany’s Indiana University Southeast) should be interesting, indeed.