Economic effects of Louisville merger remain uncertain 20 years later

Economic effects of Louisville merger remain uncertain 20 years later

(Mindy Fulner / LPM )More than 100,000 vehicles fly down Interstate 264 each day. Like many other roadways, it’s a vein carrying economic blood across Louisville.The interstate also used to represent a divide between the old city of Louisville and Jefferson County.Before 2003, most of the city was between the highway and the Ohio River. Two previous attempts to merge the city and county, in 1983 and 1984, both failed.But by Nov. 2000, another vo…