CINCINNATI — The design for the Brent Spence Companion Bridge is 60% done, Ohio Department of Transportation officials said at Tuesday's Cincinnati City Council meeting. But the exact start date for the major construction project has not yet been announced.

The project includes a new companion bridge to the west of the existing Brent Spence Bridge. Crews will re-stripe the existing bridge to three lanes instead of four to "improve safety and carry only local traffic."

Tommy Arnold, ODOT's Brent Spence Bridge Corridor project manager, discussed the three phases of the project in his presentation at the meeting. Arnold said 2024 was about the "proof of concept," 2025 is still about "project development," and 2026 is the final engineering and construction phase.

Arnold said the work schedu

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