Project Overview

The $1.32 billion East End Crossing project provides a new highway connection between Clark County, Indiana and Jefferson County, Kentucky, completing the I-265/KY-841/IN-265 circumferential freeway corridor in the eastern suburbs of Louisville. The project consists of a new toll bridge over the Ohio River and approaches on both sides, including a 3.3-mile extension of I-265 on the Kentucky side (featuring a 1,700-foot tunnel under a historic property) and a 4.1-mile extension of I-265/SR 265 on the Indiana side. The project also includes a 13-foot-wide pedestrian and bicycle path.

The East End Crossing is part of the larger $2.75 billion Ohio River Bridges project to augment highway capacity between Louisville and Southern Indiana. The Downtown Crossing portion of the project rehabilitates and adds a new span to the existing I-65 Kennedy Bridge in central Louisville, and reconstructs the Kennedy Interchange between I-65, I-64, and I-71 just south of the bridge. While each of the two projects includes road work in both states, Indiana is responsible for the entire East End Crossing project, while Kentucky is implementing the Downtown Crossing project.