Bridge porn raincoating reaches thunderous orgasmic crescendo as preparedness for pass-through toll dodging remains nil.

Of course, the least imaginative east end bridge name possible was the final choice, and that's exactly what we've come to expect from brain-dead state ruling elites.

Not since Dagny Taggart swooned over Readen Metal has there been such breathless coverage of concrete and steel, though in terms of dreadful photo ops, it was Jeffersonville's turn to pull a short straw.

Actually, a can of multinational swill might be the ideal metaphor for the history and practice of the Ohio River Bridges Boondoggle, although it's doubtful Moore grasps this. Cheers, Mike. The campaign finance slush River Ridge spills in a shift dwarfs that produced in New Gahania.

Speaking of which, here's the view from the News and Tribune:

And here is the way Team Gahan saw it:

Toll dodging begins in just a few days, folks. For bridge opening coverage at the News and Tribune, go here.

Yet another gigantic cash flushing sound heard as ORBP axes tolling consultant.

I really enjoyed doing these memes ("Kerry Stemler's statement on the occasion of the Clark Memorial Bridge closing," July 8, 2014), and am humbly grateful for the opportunity to reprise them. Meanwhile, in case you were wondering about the headline ...

Adviser and advisor are both accepted spellings of the noun meaning one who advises or counsels. There is no difference between them. But adviser, the older version, is listed as the primary spelling in most dictionaries, and it is about five times as common as advisor in current news publications from throughout the English-speaking world.

Now, to the point, as stated eloquently by the inimitable Iamhoosier at Fb:

The never ending cluster ****, known as the Bridge$ project.

Yep. Sure is, and will continue to be. I repeat: It should be called the Kerry Stemler Toll Bridge, forever more.

Ohio River Bridges Project removes toll services advisor due to failure to correct myriad of failures, by Joe Sonka (Insider Lousiville)

The Kentucky-Indiana Joint Board of the Ohio River Bridges Project removed and replaced eTrans KY Inc. as its toll services advisor on Tuesday, stating in a resolution that the contractor’s performance since it began in February “has not met with the expectations of the Joint Board.”

While the board provided few details about eTrans’ deficiencies, an open records request obtained by Insider Louisville from the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet shows the cabinet gave the company notices of default in April and May, listing a myriad of failures and incompetencies that were not corrected.

Recent posting about the ORBP:

Surprise, surprise, surprise ... said Gomer Pyle, Kerry Stemler and 1Si, as bridge tolls go on forever.

Thanks to motorized oligarchs like Kerry Stemler, "We still pursue an elusive automobile paradise like a swamp-lost Conquistador seeking the Fountain of Youth."

Stemler on road-pounding trucks: “A (truck) carrying 20 tons of asphalt or crushed stone – we're taxing (the Clark Memorial Bridge) an awful lot."

One Southern Indiana's hypocrisy is absolutely reprehensible.

Today's truthful moment: "Bridge tolls will devastate Indiana businesses, owner says."

Kerry's in that castle, somewhere.

Mike, of course we both know that the bridges junta recognized this fact from the very beginning, which is why those earnest efforts we all made, again and again, to have Kerry Stemler and his sycophants sign off on an economic impact study for local businesses was mocked, ignored and buried beneath the Eisenhower-era verbiage -- and we were ignored because we're not the kind of esteemed, engorged business fetishists that Kerry and his ilk can get their rocks off to (and rake in a few stray bucks while smoking the inevitable post-$-coital ciggies), which is to say, we're not the big-picture, River Ridge besuited kingpins.

And then there's Ron Grooms, who said and did nothing until nothing could be done or said, and only at a dog-won't-hunt point far beyond tactical usefulness finally opened his eyes to the issues and heroically spoke out to mostly empty rooms. Posterity won't be kind. Meanwhile, the rest of us search for survival strategies.

Bridge tolls will devastate Indiana businesses, owner says, by Charlie White (CJ)

A longtime Southern Indiana businessman told Indiana officials during a Tuesday public hearing for the Ohio River Bridges Project that businesses in western Clark County will be "devastated" by the addition of tolls on Interstate 65.

Mike Kapfhammer, co-owner of Rocky's Sub Pub and Buckhead Mountain Grill on Riverside Drive in Jeffersonville, estimated that 40 percent to 50 percent of his customers cross the river from Kentucky without paying a toll. He doesn't believe many will buy toll transponders if they only travel to the Hoosier state for dining or shopping ...

C'mon, people: Kerry Stemler needs to have a bridge named after him.

LEO Weekly wrote: "If the Kentucky General Assembly really names the new downtown bridge after Ronald Reagan, the Fake Issue is going to write itself.

I replied:

I'm for naming it the Kerry Stemler Toll Bridge ... so we never, ever forget who's responsible.

WHAS-11 both reports the story, and detects the irony.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WHAS11) – Two Kentucky senators have introduced a bill to find a name for the new downtown Ohio River Bridge that is expected to open in 2016.

Republicans Dan Seum and Jimmy Higdon are attempting to get the bridge named ‘The Ronald W. Reagan Memorial Bridge.’

Ronald Reagan was the 40th President of the United States. He died in 2004.

Reagan was a proponent for slashing taxes may have had mixed feeling about having his name on a bridge that is set to be tolled for decades.