The Laugh Is On Jeffersonville... AGAIN!

So, as I'm driving to work this morning listening to 840 WHAS, the top story of one of their newscast was another delay in the Jeffersonville ramp of the Big Four Bridge.  It started off with "the bridge to no where will continue longer than expected." 

Ahh, yes.  Just another joke on Jeffersonville.  We should be getting used to it by now. 

In addition to numerous news stories recently involving the mayor that has lead to a great deal of embarrassment for the city, we can now throw this on the pile.  The city that only had to complete it's own ramp while Louisville took care of their ramp and the deck of the bridge itself.   People on the other side of the river are getting a great kick out of us over here.

So what's the problem now?

According to the city, it's the lighting of the ramp that is holding up construction.  When the city chose to change the lighting plan for our side (originally it was supposed to uniform lighting across from the end of one ramp to the end of the other) it set the project back.

And who's idea was it to change the lighting plan?

You guessed it.  Mayor Mike Moore. 

Back when everything was going to be presented to the citizens so that he could receive their input on projects he decided that from the feedback he got that he should change the lighting. 

Well, first, the lighting was just fine the way it was.  It presented a sign of unity and continuity that we should be hoping for.  Just a few weeks ago someone mentioned either on the chatter or another local site that people in Louisville think it's a different world over here and that's why many don't travel over here.  God forbid that even the lights on the bridge do anything to dispel that myth.

Second, you don't change the plan if it's going to delay the project this much.  Not when the reason for changing the lights is only taste in lights.  They weren't ugly by any means.  I see them most morning's on my commute to work.  They look quite nice.

Now some have said that people were worried about the lights shining into homes.  Have these people ever heard of blinds and curtains?  There is a bright light that begins to shine into our bedroom every morning about 6-7 a.m. and they work quite well on keeping that light out.  And I assure you that the original lights are no where near as bright.

So what we have here is not thinking through a plan properly.  Now the bridge will take even longer.  And now we are once again the laughing stock.  Thanks mikey!

Perhaps when the bridge is finally complete, the mayor can lure a comedy club to Jeffersonville.  Louisville likes laughing at Jeffersonville.  Perhaps the will like to laugh in Jeffersonville.