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The Kentucky Parkway System is a statewide system of controlled-access highways financed and built as toll roads. State law requires the removal of tolls once the cost of construction is recouped; all parkways are toll-free.
Hal Rogers Parkway — tolls removed in 2003; Kentucky Turnpike — tolls removed in 1975, always had been part of I-65; Mountain Parkway — tolls removed in 1986; Natcher Parkway — tolls removed in 2006; mostly now designated as I-165, with a small section as KY 9007; Pennyrile Parkway — tolls removed in 1992; now designated as I-69, I ...
Westbound Bluegrass Parkway near Bardstown. In 2003, the road was renamed in honor of Martha Layne Collins, the first female governor of Kentucky. Previously, it was the Kentucky Bluegrass parkway (and signed as "KB Parkway"), then later renamed the "Blue Grass Parkway" (sometimes with "Bluegrass" as one word, though in the highway's name, it was officially two words), and often called the "BG ...
From July 25, 1954, until June 30, 1975, the portion of I-65 from I-264 in Louisville to the Western Kentucky Parkway in Elizabethtown was a toll road bearing the Kentucky Turnpike name. It was signed with a distinctive sign featuring a cardinal, the state bird of Kentucky. Unlike most states, Kentucky law requires that tolls be removed when ...
The Western Kentucky Parkway's previous shield (1998–2007) Trailblazer signage for the Western Kentucky Parkway (1998–2007 shield) on U.S. Route 641 in Marion, Kentucky. The original segment of the parkway was envisioned as a 127-mile (204 km) toll road extending from Elizabethtown to Princeton. The bonds were issued in 1961 and ...
Toll bridges in Kentucky (1 C, 3 P) F. Former toll roads in Kentucky (2 C, 1 P) This page was last edited on 24 December 2023, at 10:30 (UTC). Text is available under ...
Kentucky is served by six major interstate highways (I-24, I-64, I-65, I-69, I-71, I-75), seven parkways, and six bypasses and spurs.The parkways were originally toll roads, but on November 22, 2006, Governor Ernie Fletcher ended the toll charges on the William H. Natcher Parkway and the Audubon Parkway, the last two parkways in Kentucky to charge tolls for access. [1]
As with all of Kentucky's toll roads, the tolls were removed as the construction bonds were paid off. Tolls were removed from the four-lane section in 1985, and the road became a freeway in 1986 when the remaining tolls were removed from the two-lane section. The Mountain Parkway used a circular shield until the 2000s.