COVINGTON, Ky. — Caught between two of Northern Kentucky’s largest upcoming riverfront developments is an getting old bridge that could possibly be given new life.
A number of dozen individuals flocked to an open home Tuesday night. Their objective? To offer enter on the way forward for the 4th Road Bridge. The Devou Good Basis launched three renderings of what the bridge could possibly be. These renderings have been labeled “Spin,” “Spoke” and “Tube.”
Spin contains a round ramp for pedestrians and bicyclists that connects to different path networks, whereas Spoke has triangular-shaped statement areas with greenery and features a potential streetcar growth. Tube separates pedestrians and bicyclists from site visitors and the potential streetcar growth.
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“I actually like Spoke. With interactions, I’m a design man. It does job, in my view, of separating the pedestrian and vehicular site visitors, but additionally interacting each collectively,” mentioned Tanner Wooddell.
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Joe Humpert, president of Queen Metropolis Bike, mentioned every rendering supplied a brand new imaginative and prescient for what the bridge may turn into.
“I favor Spin largely as a result of the rendering we see does the very best job exhibiting the path connections,” he mentioned.
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The 4th Road Bridge, constructed within the Thirties, is taken into account by KYTC officers to be functionally out of date. The KYTC has deliberate for the previous six years to revamp the bridge. That plan included 4 lanes of vehicular site visitors.
“It doesn’t appear sane to construct one thing that appears like customary, flat concrete interstate,” Humpert mentioned.
That’s why the Devou Good Basis is stepping in to offer an alternate design to current to the KYTC in early 2023.
“So far as we all know, that is the primary time an out of doors entity that’s not a part of the federal government company has carried out competing designs,” mentioned Matt Butler, president of the Devou Good Basis. “We did this as a result of we need to elevate the designs. It is a bridge that can stand for the subsequent 100 years.”
The designs introduced to neighborhood members Tuesday deal with multi-modal transportation: bikes, pedestrians, scooters, mobility gadgets, and lightweight rail.
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“We are able to future-proof this, embrace embedded rails,” Butler mentioned.
The 4th Road Bridge is among the two principal connections between Newport and Covington. The bridge is anticipated for use extra steadily because the Ovation growth in Newport, and the previous IRS website growth in Covington are constructed.
The Devou Good Basis will host one other open home in Newport on Thursday from 5-7 p.m. on the Headquarters Marriage ceremony and Occasion Venue.
Organizers will take the enter from each occasions, in addition to the responses from 1,300 individuals who stuffed out an internet survey, to the Newport Metropolis Council and Covington Metropolis Fee. Then it’s on to the Kentucky Transportation Cupboard.
“I hope the transportation cupboard, and the municipalities of Covington and Newport, all of the river cities, will embrace the chance and make one thing actually hanging.”
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Now that the ink has dried and his signing with Kentucky has been made official, Jasper Johnson was finally able to be formally introduced to the Rupp Arena crowd during the Wildcats’ 87-68 win over Western Kentucky on Tuesday night.
Johnson, a class of 2025 five-star point guard born and raised in Lexington, sat courtside with his family to check out his future team in action against the Hilltoppers. During the second half, former Kentucky player Ravi Moss brought out the future Wildcat to midcourt where he was met with a chorus of cheers from the packed crowd of Big Blue Nationites.
After initially committing to Kentucky back in September, Johnson signed the necessary papers to play his college basketball at UK earlier this month. He’s been inside Rupp Arena plenty of times before over the years (and even played here with Woodford County as a sophomore), but never while wearing street clothes as the center of attention in front of over 20,000 screaming fans.
The smile says all you need to know.
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Johnson is one of three signees from Mark Pope‘s first recruiting class as Kentucky’s head coach, joining four-star center Malachi Moreno and four-star point guard Acaden Lewis. The 6-foot-4 guard is ranked No. 14 overall in the nation by the On3 Industry Ranking. He’s currently finishing up his high school career at Overtime Elite as a member of Rod Wave Elite (RWE).
Alongside Tay Kinney, a talented class of 2026 guard who is also from Kentucky and is being recruited by Pope, the two Bluegrass natives form arguably the deadliest backcourt duo in all of OTE. Through five games played this season, Johnson is averaging 19.4 points, 6.2 rebounds, and 5.4 assists per outing while shooting 47.9 percent from the floor and 42.9 percent from deep.
This time next year, we’ll hopefully see him do the same thing in Kentucky blue and white.
Johnson family – Dr. Michael Huang, Kentucky Sports Radio
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Clara Strack scored 24 points and grabbed 10 rebounds, Teonni Key had 16 points and 13 rebounds and No. 14 Kentucky defeated Arizona State 77-61 on Tuesday in the Music City Classic to remain unbeaten.
Kentucky nearly had four players with double-doubles as Georgia Amoore added 20 points and nine rebounds and Amelia Hassett had eight points and nine rebounds for the Wildcats (6-0), who shot 42% and scored 13 points off 14 Arizona State turnovers.
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Jalyn Brown scored 16 points and Nevaeh Parkinson added 12 points and nine rebounds for the Sun Devils (3-3). Arizona State shot just 30%.
The Sun Devils cut a 19-point deficit to 11 after three quarters but a 6-0 burst with baskets by Key, Amoore and Strack built the lead back to 15 midway through the fourth.
Kentucky led 42-23 at halftime after outscoring the Sun Devils 27-9 in the second quarter, scoring the first 13 points of the period with Struck putting in the final seven in the run. A couple ASU free throws later, the Wildcats went on an 11-2 run capped by a Hassett 3 and the lead was 20. Strack scored 14 points and Key 10 in the half.
The teams continue play in the Music City Classic on Wednesday with Kentucky playing No. 19 Illinois and Arizona State facing South Dakota.
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Rivalry week has finally arrived. The Louisville and Kentucky football program are set to do battle once again, facing off in Lexington for the annual Battle for the Governor’s Cup.
Here are the depth charts for both the Cardinals and Wildcats:
Changes from Louisville’s Depth Chart vs. Pitt:
Quarterback
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9 Tyler Shough (6-5, 230, Gr.) 10 Pierce Clarkson (6-1, 190, R-Fr.) OR 15 Harrison Bailey (6-5, 230, R-Sr.) OR 12 Brady Allen (6-6, 220, R-So)
Running Back
25 Isaac Brown (5-9, 190, Fr.) 21 Donald Chaney Jr. (5-10, 210, R-Jr.) 26 Duke Watson (6-0, 180, Fr.) 22 Keyjuan Brown (5-10, 210, R-Fr.)
Wide Receiver
0 Chris Bell (6-2, 220, Jr.) 81 Cataurus Hicks (5-10, 180, R-Fr.)
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