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The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet headquarters in Frankfort, Kentucky. KYTC maintains 63,845 lane miles (102,749 lane kilometers), [ 4 ] or over 27,600 centerline miles (44,400 centerline kilometers), [ 5 ] of roadways in the state.
Kentucky supplemental roads and rural secondary highways are the lesser two of the four functional classes of highways constructed and maintained by the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet, the state-level agency that constructs and maintains highways in Kentucky. The agency splits its inventory of state highway mileage into four categories: [1]
[1] [20] The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet redesignated a 0.696-mile-long (1.120 km) portion of KY 1416 as KY 3230 after the construction of Taylorsville Lake through a January 17, 1984, official order. The agency transferred the portion of the highway west of its current length to Spencer County via a January 31, 1991, official order.
Kentucky Route 1531 is a 15.892-mile-long (25.576 km) rural secondary highway that begins in northeastern Bullitt County and ends in northwestern Shelby County, but the route spends almost all of its length in the city of Louisville in eastern Jefferson County.
[1] [13] [12] The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet established KY 2713 as a rural secondary highway in Butler County through an April 8, 1987, official order. [14] KY 2713 in Ohio County had existed earlier as a supplemental road, but that portion of the highway was reclassified as a rural secondary highway via a March 30, 1987, official order. [15]
As of 2007, the total mileage of all scenic byways in Kentucky includes up to 1,346.405 miles (2,166.829 km) worth of state highways and local roadways. The byway system is controlled by the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet and governed by Kentucky Revised Statutes 177.571-177.576. [2]
East of its western terminus, KY 439 has an intersection with Kentucky Route 439 Connector, a 0.137-mile-long (0.220 km) rural secondary highway between KY 439 and KY 2287 (Greensburg Road), which passes under the bypass and terminates at KY 61 to the west.
Founded in 1941 as the Division of Research of the Kentucky Department of Highways, KTC became part of the university in 1981. KTC is a hub of applied multidisciplinary transportation research. KTC has built a strong partnership with the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet, and also works with other clients and transportation agencies across the ...