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Beshear Announces Plan to Expand Mountain Parkway to Four Lanes

Kentucky Transportation Cabinet

The Mountain Parkway in Eastern Kentucky will expand to four lanes in the coming years under a proposal from Governor Steve Beshear.

Beshear's proposal will be paid for with nearly $600 million in state and federal highway funding, and over $150 million in funds recovered by toll revenues.

“The Kentucky Highway Plan that I will be recommending to the General Assembly will include a series of construction projects by which the Mountain Parkway will be four-laned, lengthened and thoroughly modernized by the year 2020," the Governor said.

House and Senate leadership eagerly support the plan, which will need to be approved by the General Assembly.

Construction on the project’s first phase, which includes Magoffin and Morgan Counties, is slated to begin later this year.

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