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I66/Somerset Northern Bypass, Somerset KY
KentuckyParkways:
I created this topic to update on the northern bypass of Somerset, witch was supposed to be built starting this year, but I'm not sure as I have not been in Shopville in a while. https://somersetkyleads.com/speda-touchstone-energy-lead-interstate-65-spur-project/ The link takes you to a page that states that the Louie B Nunn Parkway would become a spur of I65, most likely I365, before I66.
abqtraveler:
--- Quote from: KentuckyParkways on June 18, 2020, 02:14:04 AM ---I created this topic to update on the northern bypass of Somerset, witch was supposed to be built starting this year, but I'm not sure as I have not been in Shopville in a while. https://somersetkyleads.com/speda-touchstone-energy-lead-interstate-65-spur-project/ The link takes you to a page that states that the Louie B Nunn Parkway would become a spur of I65, most likely I365, before I66.
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I-66 was originally proposed, but from what I've seen, officials have pretty much scrapped the I-66 concept in favor of converting Kentucky's parkways into a bunch of 3-digit interstate spurs, save for I-69.
Life in Paradise:
Except for the fact that the road doesn't really go anywhere (destination wise), they could have tagged the Audubon, Natcher, and Nunn parkways with a two digit, and it probably would have flown, since it did in North Carolina. Available in grid twos would have been 46, 48, 50, 52, 54, 56, 58, 60 and 62. You would have had an nice connection between Henderson Ky and London KY (with the extension from Somerset). It would have made the former Owensboro, KY mayor quite happy to have a 2-di go around his town.
sparker:
--- Quote from: abqtraveler on June 18, 2020, 09:18:44 AM ---
--- Quote from: KentuckyParkways on June 18, 2020, 02:14:04 AM ---I created this topic to update on the northern bypass of Somerset, witch was supposed to be built starting this year, but I'm not sure as I have not been in Shopville in a while. https://somersetkyleads.com/speda-touchstone-energy-lead-interstate-65-spur-project/ The link takes you to a page that states that the Louie B Nunn Parkway would become a spur of I65, most likely I365, before I66.
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I-66 was originally proposed, but from what I've seen, officials have pretty much scrapped the I-66 concept in favor of converting Kentucky's parkways into a bunch of 3-digit interstate spurs, save for I-69.
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Yeah...McConnell and his crack team of researchers (or is that researchers on crack?) did no one any favors by floating I-569 for the WKY between I-69 and I-165 (question: why did they stop there?). This has been discussed in another thread, but quite a few folks think a I-71 extension (with a Louisville-Elizabethtown multiplex with I-65) down that way would be optimal, drawing long-distance traffic from the I-69 corridor. As far as the Bluegrass is concerned, until some actual plans for a connection to I-64 and/or I-75 are afoot (yeah, right!), just make it I-365 or another appropriately-numbered spur.
--- Quote from: Life in Paradise on June 18, 2020, 01:44:13 PM ---Except for the fact that the road doesn't really go anywhere (destination wise), they could have tagged the Audubon, Natcher, and Nunn parkways with a two digit, and it probably would have flown, since it did in North Carolina. Available in grid twos would have been 46, 48, 50, 52, 54, 56, 58, 60 and 62. You would have had an nice connection between Henderson Ky and London KY (with the extension from Somerset). It would have made the former Owensboro, KY mayor quite happy to have a 2-di go around his town.
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Not too shabby of an idea -- I'd do I-54 for that one. But it seems KY politicos just aren't terribly imaginative when it comes to such things -- or simply not knowledgeable about Interstate numbering, preferring to take the path of least thoughtfulness and place a third-digit prefix as a default. Sometimes that works (e.g. I-169 on the Pennyrile), but often it's the least useful approach.
tidecat:
No other state has an appetite for I-66, so the project appears to be dead at a national level.
I also don't know how much political will exists in Kentucky to build the extension all the way to I-75. There was opposition to the original I-66 proposal on environmental concerns.
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