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4-Lane Highway 68/80 to Get Higher Speed Limit

4-Lane Highway 68/80 to Get Higher Speed Limit
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By West Kentucky Star Staff
Oct. 07, 2015 | MURRAY, KY
By West Kentucky Star Staff Oct. 07, 2015 | 02:21 PM | MURRAY, KY
Governor Steve Beshear today announced two long-anticipated developments for improved transportation in the tourism-rich “Western Waterlands” area of western Kentucky.
 
Beshear said the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet will take bids in November on three construction projects to complete the widening of U.S. Highway 68/KY Highway 80 from Cadiz to Lake Barkley in Trigg County.
 
Meanwhile, the speed limit will be raised on most of the stretch of KY 80 that is already four lanes wide from Mayfield to Aurora in Graves, Calloway and Marshall counties.
 
“Modern, four-lane highways are indispensable for business, tourism and other commerce,” Beshear said. “The widening of the last two-lane stretch of ‘68/80’ will complete a modern new corridor across roughly the western third of Kentucky, from Mayfield to Bowling Green.”
 
The two routes – U.S. 68 and KY 80 – merge at Aurora and run as a combined route from that point to Bowling Green. It is mostly a four-lane highway, with one glaring exception now scheduled for bid letting on November 20 – the 8-mile stretch from Lake Barkley to the western end of the Cadiz Bypass.
 
Gov. Beshear said. “Kentucky 80 is a well-built highway. A 65 mph speed limit will allow it to stand out on GPS. And now that the remaining pieces of the corridor are falling into place, the time is right.”
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