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More Details on Transportation Spending Bill
Posted: 13-Jan-2002 1:28AM CST
After examining press releases from Congressman Fletcher (no longer online) and Congressman Rogers , I have learned more specific details about what projects Kentucky's money in the 2002 U.S. Department of Transportation spending bill has been allocated for:
- $20 million for land acquisition and planning efforts for Interstate 66, with an additional $2.5 million provided for ongoing design efforts of I-66 in Pike County.
- $2 million for a new initiative at the University of Kentucky. The Academy for Community Transportation Innovation will educate professionals and study transportation development, planning and design of suburban and rural areas.
- $2 million to help Kentucky establish a statewide clearinghouse for public travel information.
- $2 million for a project to provide traffic information through a universal telephone number (5-1-1). The pilot project will build a first generation 511 call center in Kentucky that could become a national resource for traffic information.
- $15.5 million for bus and bus facility needs across Kentucky.
- $1.5 million for preliminary work on a project to straighten a dangerous section of the Daniel Boone Parkway in Leslie County between mileposts 37 and 44
- $4 million for improved access to the Parkway from the new Clay/Leslie County Industrial Park
- $2 million for continued work on a project to improve US 25N in Rockcastle County to provide for increased traffic at the new Country Music Hall of Fame
- $1.4 million to improve Cold Hill Road, located in the Daniel Boone National Forest in Laurel County
- $995,000 to improve a stretch of Craigs Creek Road on U.S. Forest Service land in Laurel County
- $885,000 for improvements to Kentucky’s Scenic Byways, including the Country Music Highway, the Wilderness Road Heritage Highway and the Cumberland Cultural Heritage Highway.
- $800,000 for the design phase of a 4-lane project on a section of US 27 south of Somerset to Burnside Island.
- $500,000 to widen Leestown Road in Lexington.
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