State highway officials say a contractor is continuing to install updated signage along 38 miles of Interstate 69 through Lyon, Caldwell, and Hopkins Counties. District 2 Chief Engineer, Kevin McClearn says the sign installation work may be a little confusing to motorists.
McClearn says they hope to have the new signs up completely and the old signs down by the end of the year. The sign work is the final phase of $9.9 million in upgrades for 2012 aimed at meeting current Interstate highway standards along the 38 mile section.
The work included reconstruction of a ramp at the I-69/WK Parkway Interchange with Interstate 24 in Lyon County. That ramp widening and extension effort, as well as work to increase the vertical clearance on an overpass near the Hopkins County-Caldwell county line and overpasses at KY 91 and KY 293 in Princeton, is substantially complete.McClearn says they are working with a design firm to rework the I-69/Pennyrile Parkway interchange.
They want to make it so that the travelers on I-69 do not have to take a ramp to transition through the interchange. Officials say one of the more challenging issues for both motorists and 911 emergency dispatch centers as everyone moves to the new signs, will be the reorienting of the roadway from an East-West designation used by the Western Kentucky Parkway, to a North-South designation for Interstate 69.
McClearn says they hope to have the new signs up completely and the old signs down by the end of the year. The sign work is the final phase of $9.9 million in upgrades for 2012 aimed at meeting current Interstate highway standards along the 38 mile section.
The work included reconstruction of a ramp at the I-69/WK Parkway Interchange with Interstate 24 in Lyon County. That ramp widening and extension effort, as well as work to increase the vertical clearance on an overpass near the Hopkins County-Caldwell county line and overpasses at KY 91 and KY 293 in Princeton, is substantially complete.McClearn says they are working with a design firm to rework the I-69/Pennyrile Parkway interchange.
They want to make it so that the travelers on I-69 do not have to take a ramp to transition through the interchange. Officials say one of the more challenging issues for both motorists and 911 emergency dispatch centers as everyone moves to the new signs, will be the reorienting of the roadway from an East-West designation used by the Western Kentucky Parkway, to a North-South designation for Interstate 69.
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