When the 2004 Recommended Six-Year Highway Plan was released Transportation Cabinet Secretary Maxwell Clay Bailey assured legislators that no projects had been removed the 2002 Six-Year Plan; however, the Courier-Journal has found that fifteen projects scheduled under the 2002 plan were moved to the unscheduled needs list in the new 2004 plan.

More information: Courier-Journal: 15 projects cut from road plan (March 3, 2004) , WKYT: 15 Kentucky Road Projects Cut Due To Budget Crisis (March 4, 2004) , Hardin County News Enterprise: State drops I-65 widening (March 5, 2004) 

Affected projects:

• KY 15 in Breathitt County
• KY 44 in Bullitt County
• KY 1999 in Clay County
• US 25 widening in Fayette County
• US 60 widening in Franklin County
• US 460 in Franklin County
• I-65 major widening south of Elizabethtown in Hardin and Hart Counties
• US 60 Corydon Bypass in Henderson County
• US 41A widening in Henderson County
• Hyden Bypass in Leslie County
• AA Highway major widening in Mason County
• KY 213 in Powell County
• KY 44 Taylorsville Bypass in Spencer County
• US 60 in Union County
• US 41A in Webster County