re: West side Expressway with new bridge ( aka Loop) gaining traction

No bridge is coming. This is just another excuse for politicians to funnel millions of dollars to relatives and campaign contributors in the form of a "traffic study" which is going to say the same thing the last 5 studies said: we need a new bridge, but it's even more expensive than the last time we studied it! Then, the project won't get built because it's too expensive, despite that if DOTD added up all of the money they spent studying the project so many times, that money would equal or more than likely exceed the cost of a new bridge back when they first started studying it.