I-69 Ohio River Bridge

[triplemultiplex]

(note: due to the persnickety river refusing to stay in their legally defined place over the past two centuries,    this Indiana part of the road doesn't actually make it all the way to the Ohio River)

Silly Kentucky couldn't be satisfied with a boundary in the middle of the river; they wanted that far bank for some reason.  Daniel Boone must have liked islands.

[Alex]

Google Maps has been updated to show construction of future Interstate 69 in Kentucky north of US 41: https://www.google.com/maps/@37.8478746,-87.5618769,1475m/data=!3m1!1e3?entry=ttu. It's not much, but it's a start.

Visible construction as of yesterday (02-19-24):

[abqtraveler]

Google Maps has been updated to show construction of future Interstate 69 in Kentucky north of US 41: https://www.google.com/maps/@37.8478746,-87.5618769,1475m/data=!3m1!1e3?entry=ttu. It's not much, but it's a start.

Visible construction as of yesterday (02-19-24):

What site is this imagery from?

[KelleyCook]

What site is this imagery from?

I, too, saw that yesterday and needed to go find it.

https://browser.dataspace.copernicus.eu

Create an account, browse to your hearts content.

[sprjus4]

What site is this imagery from?

I, too, saw that yesterday and needed to go find it.

https://browser.dataspace.copernicus.eu

Create an account, browse to your hearts content.

Do note though, I don't believe you can zoom further in than that picture shows, without it getting blurrier.

It is great though for new highway construction projects like this, however.

[ITB]

The ORX Project website has a great videos and photos page that is kept fairly up to date. The photos are uncaptioned, but for those familiar with the area, it  shouldn't be difficult to figure out what's happening where.

Here's a couple of recent videos which include snippets of drone footage:

Starting the I-69 Connection

A Year of Progress

[wriddle082]

(note: due to the persnickety river refusing to stay in their legally defined place over the past two centuries,    this Indiana part of the road doesn't actually make it all the way to the Ohio River)

Silly Kentucky couldn't be satisfied with a boundary in the middle of the river; they wanted that far bank for some reason.  Daniel Boone must have liked islands.

The establishment of that border goes back to when Kentucky was still part of Virginia.  Same deal with West Virginia's border with Ohio.

[abqtraveler]

(note: due to the persnickety river refusing to stay in their legally defined place over the past two centuries,    this Indiana part of the road doesn't actually make it all the way to the Ohio River)

Silly Kentucky couldn't be satisfied with a boundary in the middle of the river; they wanted that far bank for some reason.  Daniel Boone must have liked islands.

That situation is not unique to the Ohio River and the border between states that were formerly part of Virginia and their adjacent neighbors. The border between Vermont and New Hampshire has a similar situation, where the border between the two states lies on the right (west) bank of the Connecticut River, rather than in the middle of the main river channel.

The establishment of that border goes back to when Kentucky was still part of Virginia.  Same deal with West Virginia's border with Ohio.

[Moose]

(note: due to the persnickety river refusing to stay in their legally defined place over the past two centuries,    this Indiana part of the road doesn't actually make it all the way to the Ohio River)

Silly Kentucky couldn't be satisfied with a boundary in the middle of the river; they wanted that far bank for some reason.  Daniel Boone must have liked islands.

That situation is not unique to the Ohio River and the border between states that were formerly part of Virginia and their adjacent neighbors. The border between Vermont and New Hampshire has a similar situation, where the border between the two states lies on the right (west) bank of the Connecticut River, rather than in the middle of the main river channel.

The establishment of that border goes back to when Kentucky was still part of Virginia.  Same deal with West Virginia's border with Ohio.

Yep, and is resulted in Green River Island (which is no longer an Island) having a Horse Track and betting..  well well before Indiana would approve any such thing.

And its the only place I know of that Indiana and Kentucky having a road crossible (non bridge) land border. 41 may have a bridge there, but there are a couple gravel roads to the east where you can cross Indiana to Kentucky without crossing a bridge.

[GreenLanternCorps]

Some of the I-69 construction around Henderson is now (just barely) visible on Google maps...

https://www.google.com/maps/@37.8516721,-87.5605887,2706m/data=!3m1!1e3!5m1!1e1?entry=ttu

You can see the outline of the future US 41 interchange.

[Sapphuby]

If you use Copernicus browser you can see much more construction going on than what Google Maps shows. It's quite helpful.