From KYTC via email this morning:
Glover Cary Bridge Repair Project Scheduled for This Summer
Work will safeguard Blue Bridge; requires short-term temporary closure
MADISONVILLE, Ky. (June 5, 2025) – Repairs to safeguard the iconic Glover Cary Bridge in downtown Owensboro are scheduled this summer to maintain the vital traffic service it provides across the Ohio River between northwest Kentucky and southern Indiana.
The necessary maintenance project will encompass work on both sides of the Ohio, including a new concrete driving surface and other important repairs, and will require a short-term, 90-day temporary closure expected to begin after the July 4 holiday.
Preliminary work will begin early next week with single lane closures planned for Monday, June 9, Tuesday, June 10 and Wednesday, June 11. One lane of KY 2262 across the bridge will remain open during this phase of work, with flaggers directing alternating one-lane traffic.
American Contracting & Services plans to fully block the Glover Cary Bridge (KY 2262 bridge), which connects with Indiana State Road 161, after the July 4 weekend to begin the full maintenance project. That project will replace the aging bridge deck, make concrete repairs and repair bridge joints. While the entire project is slated to last through November, the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet is limiting the actual bridge closure to 90 days or less. That schedule would have the bridge reopened around the first of October.
Previous plans called for a six-month closure, but engineers worked to streamline the repairs and shorten the closure length to reduce traffic impacts to a minimum.
During construction, crews will be fully replacing one 750-foot long span of concrete-filled bridge decking while making repairs to a second span of the same length. As the decking spans the entire width of the bridge surface, closing one lane at a time is impossible, which required a bridge closure.
The temporary closure also allows long-term concrete maintenance to be completed, rather than short-term repairs, helping to keep the bridge safe and open for many years to come.
Work will also be conducted on the Indiana approach to the bridge. KYTC and the Indiana Department of Transportation coordinated to schedule the work as one project so that the bridge will only have to be closed one time.
The contractor plans to conduct any work that does not require full closure outside the 90 day period to reduce impacts on traffic.
Around 7,200 vehicles cross the Glover Carey Bridge daily. The structure opened to traffic in 1940.
Traffic needing to cross the Ohio River between Kentucky and Indiana during the closure should detour using the U.S. 231 William H. Natcher Bridge.
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It should be noted the Natcher Bridge is currently down to one lane in each direction due to its own maintenance project (https://www.aaroads.com/forum/index.php?topic=35816.0) that is expected to last until sometime in the spring of 2026.