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KY 72 News Items
Part of KY 72 Designated "Coal Miners Memorial Highway;" Bridge KY 66 Designated "Dr. R. R. Evans Memorial Bridge"
House Joint Resolution 169
passed by the Kentucky General Assembly in 2002 designated seven miles of KY 72 in Bell County as the Coal Miners Memorial Highway. State Rep. Rick Nelson and around thirty others dedicated the highway on July 28, 2003.
House Joint Resolution 170
passed by the Kentucky General Assembly in 2002 designated the bridge at the intersection of KY 66 and KY 221 in Bell County the Dr. R. R. Evans Memorial Bridge. The bridge near the community of Arjay was dedicated on July 29, 2003. Dr. Evans operated a private medical practice in the community from 1929 until 1990 and served on the Bell County Board of Education for twenty years.
Signs have been posted at both locations indicating the new honorary names.
Over Two-hundred Photographs Added
Two-hundred-and-sixty-two photographs of Kentucky's roads have been added to this website. The new photo galleries include:
- Bridges of the Ohio River - Several of Kentucky's 40 bridges across the Ohio River.
- William H. Harsha Bridge Photographs - Photographs of Kentucky's first cable stayed bridge: the William H. Harsha bridge near Maysville.
- I-64 - Sherman Minton Bridge - The I-64 and US 150 bridge over the Ohio River in Louisville.
- Shortway Bridge - The Old KY 1120 bridge over the Licking River between Kenton and Campbell Counties.
- I-65 - John F. Kennedy Bridge - The I-65 bridge over the Ohio River at Louisville.
- US 31 - George Rogers Clark Memorial Bridge (Second Street Bridge) - The US 31 bridge over the Ohio River at Louisville.
- I-65 - Miscellaneous Images
- KY 30 - Miscellaneous Images - Photographs of the new section of KY 30 under construction in Laurel County.
- I-65 Warren County Construction - June 29, 2001
- I-65 Warren County Construction - May 22, 2002
- I-65 Warren County Construction - August 15, 2002
- I-65 Warren County Construction - July 5, 2003
- I-75 - Miscellaneous Images - Includes photographs of I-75 widening projects south of Lexington.
- William H. Natcher Bridge - October 26, 2002
- William H. Natcher Bridge - February 8, 2003
- Louisville - Miscellaneous Images
- KY 3 and KY 645 - Inez - January 3, 2003
- AA Highway - Miscellaneous Images
- KY 67 - Miscellaneous Images
- KY 80 - Miscellaneous Images - Along KY 80 in Pulaski and Laurel Counties.
- KY 101 and KY 259 - Edmonson County - November 18, 2001 - A new section of KY 259 and KY 101 under construction in Edmonson County.
- US 23 - Miscellaneous Images
- US 60 - Miscellaneous Images - Photographs of the Cumberland and Tennessee River bridges.
A few new images have been added to the KentuckyRoads.com - Miscellaneous Signs and KentuckyRoads.com - General Images galleries as well.