Traffic Shift on Purchase Parkway This Afternoon

There will be a traffic shift on Friday along the Julian Carroll-Purchase Parkway/US 45 Bypass Exit 21 Interchange within in the I-69 Interchnage Reconstruction Project at Mayfield. 

The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet says a contractor plans to shift traffic from the old southbound Purchase Parkway to the new alignment within the reconstruction project between the 17 and 23 mile marker in Graves County at the southwest edge of Mayfield. The traffic shift will reportedly require about a 30 to 60 minute traffic halt along the main line of the Purchase Parkway at the KY 80 Mayfield Exit 22 Interchange. During this traffic shift southbound traffic will be routed up the ramps at the KY 80 Exit 22 Interchange, then back down the entry ramp.  This temporary ramp on-ramp off arrangement is expected to be in place for about 60 to 90 minutes to facilitate the shifting of traffic to the newly constructed lanes.

This traffic shift is expected to take place around mid-afternoon, Friday.  Drivers traveling the Purchase Parkway during this time should be careful.

Once the traffic shift is complete, southbound traffic will be traveling on the new alignment.