The items listed below are KentuckyRoads.com news items from May 2023. For the most recent updates see the KentuckyRoads.com home page.
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Clark County I-64 Rest Area Again Judged ‘Best Maintained’ in Kentucky
From the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet:
Clark County I-64 Rest Area Again Judged ‘Best Maintained’ in Kentucky
Staff praised for providing clean, safe haven to motorists
FRANKFORT, Ky. (May 15, 2023) – Kentucky’s “best maintained” rest area for 2023 can be found on the eastbound lanes of Interstate 64 in Clark County, the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet (KYTC) announced today.
“The interstate highway system was planned with rest areas along the way as a convenience. Now, they’re a necessity,” said Transportation Cabinet Secretary Jim Gray, whose agency annually presents the Best Maintained Rest Area Award. “It sends a message about our state when we can offer visitors a clean, safe facility in which everything is in working order.”
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Ribbon Cutting for New Cumberland River Bridge on US 60 Planned for Monday, May 15
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Rural Warren County Routes Receive Funding
Warren Fiscal Court on May 11, 2023 approved the Rural Secondary Road Program allotment of $2,085,326 submitted by Kentucky Transportation Cabinet District 3 officials for improving three of the county's secondary state routes deemed most in need: Bowling Green Daily News: Claypool-Boyce among rural roads to get upgrades (May 12, 2023) ![[Outside Link]](../images/kentuckyroads/outside-link2.gif){kind=small}
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Governors Beshear and DeWine Submit Second Federal Funding Request for Brent Spence Bridge Corridor Project
From the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet:
Governors Beshear and DeWine Submit Second Federal Funding Request for Brent Spence Bridge Corridor Project
Additional funding will support bridge and roadway improvements that will grow the economy and invest in local communities
FRANKFORT, Ky. (Aug.10, 2022) – Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear and Ohio Governor Mike DeWine announced today that a second federal funding application was submitted jointly by the two states to support bridge and roadway improvements along the eight-mile Brent Spence Bridge Corridor from the Western Hills Viaduct in Ohio to Dixie Highway in Kentucky.
The current funding request is through the Bridge Investment Program, which follows the May funding request through the Multimodal Projects Discretionary Grant Program. Ohio and Kentucky articulated in both applications that a total of $1.66 billion in federal grant funding is needed regardless of which discretionary grant program awards funds to the project. The states are applying to multiple grant programs to give themselves the best chance of receiving maximum funding, in keeping with the pledges of Govs. DeWine and Beshear to pursue every available federal dollar.