jeff@kentuckyroads.com (Jeffrey Carlyle, KentuckyRoads.com)
2004-09-06T20:54:41-05:00

Three Options Considered for “Heartland Parkway”

Posted: 6-Sep-2004 8:54PM CDT

Topics: [Adair County] [Martha Layne Collins Blue Grass Parkway] [Louie B. Nunn Cumberland Parkway] [Green County] [Heartland Parkway] [KY 55] [KY 555] [Marion County] [Public Meetings] [Taylor County] [US 68] [Washington County]

The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet recently presented three options for the so-called Heartland Parkway in central Kentucky between Columbia and Springfield.

Option 1 would construct a new interstate-like highway between the Cumberland Parkway and Blue Grass Parkway. The new highway would follow a corridor roughly two miles to the west of KY 55/US 68/KY 555.

Option 2 would widen the existing KY 55/US 68/KY 555 route to four lanes.

Option 3 would keep the current KY 55/US 68/KY 555 route at two lanes, but add passing lanes every three miles.

Area residents expressed a wide variety of opinions about the three options at the recent public meetings.

More information: Lebanon Enterprise: Opinions vary about Heartland Parkway options (August 19, 2004)