Louisville Forum Monthly Luncheon
** TOPIC **
Louisville’s Highway and Roadway Infrastructure: A Performance Review
It was late 2016 when two spectacular bridges connecting Louisville to Indiana opened for traffic. Ten years later, how is that working out? And more broadly, for the city’s highway and roadway infrastructure, what is going well? What needs to be better or different? What are the plans moving forward? This discussion will occur on the heels of a two-month closure of I-65, and three blocks from the daily 2nd Street gridlock created by commuters crossing the 96-year-old Clark Memorial Bridge, avoiding the tolls of the newer bridges.
**SPEAKERS**
Mary Ellen Wiederwohl
CEO, Accelerator for America
Matt Bullock
Engineer, KYTC
Wes Sydnor
Director of Louisville Metro Public Works
Ken Herndon
Louisville Metro Council
WHEN: Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at Noon
Please be seated by 11:45 am
WHERE: Vincenzo’s, 150 S 5th St, Louisville, KY 40202
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