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hbelkins:
--- Quote from: seicer on December 24, 2022, 04:11:45 PM ---Widening is dictated generally by traffic counts, not occasional snowfalls and an accident that is exaggerated by vehicles driving on the shoulder and going off the edge of the highway. The roadway, from what I've read, froze very quickly because of wet roadways, quick snow bursts, and rapidly dropping temperatures, and no amount of widening would have resolved the fundamentals.
Related, why did so many receive the government notice? I had all of my alerts turned off on my phone yet I received one - at around 10:30 PM - despite living 2.5 hours east. My friend in Pikeville also received one at a different time. What a good way to get people to ignore these alerts than by sending them out to everyone?
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The alerts went off in my area as well (I have them disabled on my phone so I didn't get them). Kentucky Emergency Management tried to explain why they sent the alerts statewide today via social media posts.
seicer:
I saw that - it wasn't even an apology, and people are seemingly fine with getting woken up at 3 AM (some were receiving them in the middle of the night) with alerts that don't even pertain to them.
triplemultiplex:
--- Quote from: hbelkins on December 23, 2022, 06:40:33 PM ---I'm not sure what upgrades are needed between the Natcher and E-town. The biggest upgrade on the segment between the Pennyrile and the Natcher (this future I-569) is the toll booth cloverleaf at US 431/KY 70. The old toll booth cloverleaf at Leitchfield has already been converted to a diamond.
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Though they didn't bother upgrading all of the old tollbooth clovers before signing I-165. Still a couple of those lingering even though 165 has been posted for years.
bandit957:
I know we're running out of 2-digit numbers, but I still think I-58 might be suitable for the Western Kentucky and Bluegrass parkways. It could have included the Purchase and I-155 into Missouri too. This makes more sense than the I-69 stuff does.
jnewkirk77:
--- Quote from: bandit957 on December 27, 2022, 10:40:24 AM ---I know we're running out of 2-digit numbers, but I still think I-58 might be suitable for the Western Kentucky and Bluegrass parkways. It could have included the Purchase and I-155 into Missouri too. This makes more sense than the I-69 stuff does.
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I'm still rooting for extending I-71 down 65 and the WKP to 69, then south to Hopkinsville. If you look at a map of 71, all the way from Louisville to Cleveland, such an extension fits the diagonal path.
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