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Gov. Beshear presents funding for E-town Ring Road extension Final section of project to connect bypass with both I-65, WK Parkway By Kerri Richardson and Terry Sebastian News from Governor Steve Beshear's Communications Office ELIZABETHTOWN, Ky. - Governor Steve Beshear today presented a ceremonial check representing preconstruction funding for a project long sought by leaders in Elizabethtown and Hardin County - the final extension of Ring Road to create a badly needed bypass around Elizabethtown. "Our transportation system is a key to the economic well-being of our entire Commonwealth," Gov. Beshear said. "But that system is much more than interstate highways and bridges over mighty rivers. At the community level, it's the local streets and roads and connectors like Ring Road that support the life and commerce of the community." The concept of a Ring Road bypass can be traced to planning studies in the late 1970s and early 1980s. The project first appeared in the Kentucky Highway Plan in 1998 and has been built in stages - initially as a two-lane facility but since widened to five lanes and now providing access to numerous commercial and industrial business sites. It currently runs from U.S. 31W, around the western side of Elizabethtown to connect with the Wendell Ford Western Kentucky Parkway. The final extension will connect with Interstate 65. Rep. Jimmie Lee, who worked through the legislature to get the Ring Road corridor widened to five lanes and to get the road extended to the parkway and interstate, said seldom has a bypass been so important to the public safety and economic development of a community. "Expanding and improving Ring Road has been a top priority of mine for years, so I am certainly pleased to see this latest project move forward," said Rep. Jimmie Lee of Elizabethtown. "This work is making it safer to travel around town and is poised to make it much easier to access both the Western Kentucky Parkway and I-65. As a result, we should benefit economically from this for years. It will be a good day once this extension is complete." "While the Ring Road Extension will certainly open up traffic through the I-65 corridor around Elizabethtown, my focus now is to work with Rep. Lee and our other local legislators to develop economic initiatives for the Exit 91 area on the south side of Elizabethtown," said Senator Dennis L. Parrett, of Elizabethtown. At the ceremony, Gov. Beshear presented an oversized check for $4.45 million, representing estimates in the Governor's 2014 Highway Plan for right of way acquisition and utilities work for the final Ring Road segment. This story was posted on 2014-10-29 12:40:50
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