Every time Melissa Kelley rolls up to the intersection at Greenup Street and Pleasant Street, she’s cautious. She looks both ways and waits, preparing to cross the two-way street that is Greenup, with no stop signs or traffic lights to aid her.
“That’s an intersection we go through a lot and have to sort of creep out into the intersection and hope nothing comes and hits you,” Kelley said.
Kelley lives in the Eastside neighborhood of Covington. The neighborhood is located right off the Girl Scout Bridge, so some amount of traffic is typical. But after the demolition of the 4th Street Bridge over the Licking River, the Girl Scout Bridge is now the only one connecting Covington and Newport. And now, the state transportation cabinet has started improvements on that bridge as well…