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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-169, and US 41
State law requires the removal of tolls once the cost of construction is recouped; all parkways are toll-free. The system is built at or near-to interstate standards, and it provides access to portions of Kentucky not serviced by interstates. Several parkways have been or are planned to be re-designated as mainline or spur interstate highways.
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 ...
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 ...
The name of the roadway was chosen by means of a contest sponsored by the Kentucky Turnpike Authority, [6] which originally issued the bonds for the parkway's construction. [7] In 1968, construction wrapped up on a 6.60-mile (10.62 km) extension of the Western Kentucky Parkway from Princeton to Interstate 24 in Eddyville at a cost of $5,554,468.
I-65 is maintained by the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet (KYTC), along with all other Interstate, U.S., and state highways in Kentucky. Along its 137.32-mile (221.00 km) length in Kentucky, [1] major attractions I-65 passes include the National Corvette Museum, Mammoth Cave National Park, Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest, and Fort Knox before entering the state's largest metropolitan ...
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.
The Audubon Parkway is a freeway and former toll road connecting the cities of Henderson and Owensboro, Kentucky.Named for John James Audubon, an early American naturalist, the Audubon's western terminus is at US 41; the eastern terminus is US 60.