The bridge, which opened a year after his retirement, was named in his honor by then Kentucky governor Bert T. Combs.

[8] In the early morning hours of November 11, 2020, a fiery accident involving two semi-trucks, one of which was carrying caustic chemicals, caused the bridge to be closed to traffic.

[10] The U.S. Coast Guard also temporarily closed the Ohio River to all traffic while the bridge inspections were underway.

[11] On November 16, Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear announced that the accident and subsequent fire did not compromise the integrity of the bridge.

Kentucky Transportation Secretary Jim Gray stated that the damage was confined to a 200 ft (61 m) section of the bridge.

[27] The plan includes building a new, yet to be named, companion bridge to be used as an express path for highway traffic through the downtown Cincinnati and Covington corridor.

[30] Because the new bridge project will require rerouting sections of I-75, in early 2024 city officials proposed minor changes to the plan to include revisions to the surface-level street grid.

This would allow the Queensgate neighborhood, largely razed in the 1960s as part of slum clearance and urban renewal, to be reconnected to downtown Cincinnati.