Kentucky Transportation Cabinet

And just before the break, we were talking about single bid asphalt contracts.

Andrew, you reported that between 2023 and 2025, the Kentucky State Transportation Cabinet awarded $1.3 billion in single bid asphalt contracts.

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We assume and believe that this issue will be taken up in a priority next year, but it's With the legislature not acting this year, we saw all of this reaction and momentum in many communities across Kentucky, like Mercer, Carroll County, several places.

The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet says more cameras will be going up along interstates.

We've talked a lot about flock cameras, but these...

Watch for speeders, especially in construction zones.

Yep.

You know, during COVID, uh, uh, one of the big jobs we had is we went down and we worked for, uh, the Kentucky DOT.

They was like, "Hey, it's COVID.

Uh, traffic is just to n- down to nothing.

C- would you come down and wash our bridges?" So-

The bridges?

So we went down and worked for the Kentucky DOT washing bridges.

Um, that was during COVID.

The Kentucky Department of Transportation issued a press release today.

Drivers may begin using Lexington's second double diamond crossover interchange on Monday, Monday, October 5th, when the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet expects to open the new Leestown New Circle Road interchange to traffic, weather permitting.

So this is great.

In the first two years of the installation of the double crossover diamond at Harrodsburg Road, crash rates have declined by 63%, and traffic queues reduced by half.

And this one really needs to get open.

This has been a construction pain for a while, and I guess they must have finished it ahead of schedule.

I'd love to talk to somebody from the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet, but after two days of trying to reach somebody, they can't spare somebody for 10 minutes to talk to us.

Nobody's available, I'm told.