Feds give final approval to Brent Spence’s project.

With federal approval, Ohio and Kentucky can take “an important step forward in bringing efficiency to our nation’s supply chain,” Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine said in a news release. “The project will address one of the nation’s worst trucking bottlenecks by improving safety and travel on an interstate connection that carries more than $400 billion worth of freight each year,” DeWine said.

The Brent Spence Bridge project, planned for two decades, moved forward in February 2022 when the states agreed to move forward without adding tolls to the current bridge or the new one to be built to its immediate west. It gained more momentum when Biden visited Covington in January 2023 to promote the federal government’s $1.6 billion contribution to the project.