Memphis-Arkansas Bridge’s history goes back to Boss Crump – Memphis Local, Sports, Business & Food News

<strong>As it was preparing to open in the spring of 1949, an appointed commission met and decided the structure, now commonly known as the Interstate 55 bridge, should be named in honor of former Memphis Mayor and political boss E.H. Crump.</strong> (Patrick Lantrip/The Daily Memphian)

In town for an appearance Tuesday, Oct. 22, Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee touted state funding approved for helping speed construction of the new “America’s River Crossing” bridge in Downtown Memphis.

And U.S. Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tenn., dutifully added that the project’s federal funding came from the “Bipartisan Inflation Reduction Act.”

Republicans hold a supermajority in the Tennessee Legislature. The Biden administration’s federal act received no Republican votes in the U.S. House of Representatives.

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