The letter to Secretary Pete Buttigieg garnered 127 signatures in only two weeks. Thank you to everyone who's signed so far!

The recent Newport Commission Meeting exacerbated concerns that KYTC was not seriously considering community feedback, particularly regarding the community push for maintaining three lanes instead of expanding to four lanes.

We're proposing an alternative vision to KYTC’s overbuilt design and have brought our concerns directly to Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg. We're still gathering signatures. Join us!

The 4th Street Bridge replacement has sparked a lot of conversation about what the future, specifically, the next 50+ year life span of the bridge replacement holds.

Does the future include streetcars? What does safety for pedestrians and cyclists look like not just over the water, but at both ends of the bridge?

What does building a bridge for the community it serves look like? Where does a continued emphasis on concrete, car-centric cities, over-built designs, and increased air pollution leave our most vulnerable neighbors?

Conversations during the 9/25 Newport Commission Meeting two weeks ago brought up many of these concerns.

Thank you to the 60+ community members and two elected officials from Newport that came out for the People's Public Hearing on the 4th Street Bridge last Thursday! We had a full house.

Again and again during The People’s Public Hearing, community members appealed to the need for 4th Street Bridge to be safe, sustainable, and created for the community it serves. Experts and members of the public alike pointed to data, statistics, and to the irrationality and irresponsibility of a 4-lane bridge.

1) Covington officials are saying that they don't have any influence on the bridge, and yet Covington Mayor Joe Meyer and the City's historic preservation staff have seats on the bridge aesthetics committee.

According to KYTC's website, the aesthetics committee is, "made up of community leaders from Newport and Covington" and "has been created to help identify key elements that may be included in the final bridge design. Stakeholders serve a critical role, bringing valuable input from their constituents to the project team and serving as advocates for the project in their communities." (italics added)

Why aren't Covington officials doing their job and including community input?

When asked what they most enjoyed about the event, Newport residents overwhelmingly emphasized seeing the support from the community and that the mayor and commissioner seemed responsive.

Residents from across the region were interviewed, sharing why 4th Street Bridge redesign is important to them: