US 51 in Kentucky
According to act-test-centers, US 51 is a US Highway in the US state of Kentucky. The road forms the westernmost north-south route in the state, from the Tennessee border at Fultont to the Illinois border at Cairo. US 51 is 68 kilometers long in Kentucky.
US 51 in Tennessee enters Kentucky from Memphis and intersects US 45 in Fulton, then crosses Purchase Parkway. The route heads north in a single lane, slowly up to the Mississippi River, before US 62 and US 60 merge into US 51, and the three tracks cross the mouth of the Ohio River. US 51 in Illinois then continues through Cairo towards Anna.
US 51 was created in 1926. In 1937, the Cairo Ohio River Bridge, the second bridge over the Ohio River in western Kentucky, opened. In addition to north-south traffic, the bridge is also important for east-west traffic. As a through route, US 51 has never been very important, that role went mainly to US 45 and the Purchase Parkway.
Every day 9,000 vehicles drive into Fulton and 1,800 to 2,300 vehicles further towards Cairo. The bridge over the Ohio River has 5,300 vehicles.
US 60 in Kentucky
US 60 is a US Highway in the US state of Kentucky. The road forms a long east-west route across the state, from the Illinois border at Wickliffe through Paducah, Henderson, Owensboro, Louisville, Frankfort, Lexington, and Ashland to the West Virginia border. US 60 is 776 kilometers long in Kentucky.
US 60 between Lexington and Versailles.
US 60 in Illinois crosses the Ohio River from Cairo, then US 60 heads east to Paducah, where it crosses Interstate 24. US 60 more or less follows the Ohio River to Louisville, via a series of single-lane roads, through the regional towns of Henderson and Owensboro. Around Owensboro is the Wendell Ford Expressway, a bypass that has been constructed as a freeway. Furthermore, only east of Owensboro the route is partially four-lane. The route can alternatively be completed faster via the Western Kentucky Parkway, which parallels further south. US 60 passes through downtown Louisville and then begins its eastward route that parallels Interstate 64runs. The road runs through the capital city of Frankfort and then is a four lane lane to Lexington, where it crosses Interstate 75. To the east, the route is again single-lane and runs continuously parallel to I-64 for a short distance, so that US 60 has little through importance. Only the last section near Ashland continues off I-64 and follows urbanization along the Ohio River. Then follows the border with West Virginia. US 60 in West Virginia then continues to Hungtinton and Charleston.
US 60 at Owensboro.
US 60 was created in 1926 and was Kentucky’s main east-west route at the time. At the end of the 1930s it was the only through east-west route that was completely asphalted, US 62 still had unpaved sections. The bridge opened over the Tennessee River in 1931. In 1937, the Cairo Ohio River Bridge on the Illinois border opened to traffic. Gradually, US 60 has become less important as alternative highways were completed. No alternative highway has been constructed west of Paducah. Between 1956 and the 1960s, the Kentucky Turnpike (I-65) and the Western Kentucky Parkway run between Paducah and Louisville.constructed so that through traffic no longer had to use the single-lane US 60. The parkway is quite a distance from US 60, especially from Henderson and Owensboro. Between 1962 and 1975, I-64 was built, with US 60 at that time still briefly functioning as a replacement route where I-64 was not yet ready.
On July 31, 2013, a new four-lane bridge over the Tennessee River opened just outside Paducah. This replaces the bridge from 1931.
Wendell Ford Expressway
The Wendell Ford Expressway is the bypass of Owensboro that has been run as a freeway. The bypass is believed to have been constructed in the early 1970s, along with the connecting Audubon Parkway and Natcher Parkway, both of which opened in 1972. On September 15, 2014, 7 miles of new US 60 freeway opened on the east side of Owensboro.
The highway is named after Wendell H. Ford (1924-), the 53rd Governor of Kentucky and a member of the United States Senate. He was governor of Kentucky (1971-1974) during the highway’s construction. The highway was given this name in 1978. In the 1990s, the Western Kentucky Parkway was also named Wendell H. Ford.
US 62 in Kentucky
According to liuxers, US 62 is a US Highway in the US state of Kentucky. The road forms an east-west route across most of the state, from the Illinois border through Paducah, Elizabethtown, and Georgetown to Maysville. The route is somewhat secondary in character and is 626 miles in Kentucky.
US 62 at Mount Olivet, between Georgetown and Maysville.
US 62 begins along with US 51 and US 60 at the Ohio River Bridge, from where US 62 enters Illinois. US 62 follows a parallel route to US 60 to Paducah, crosses Interstate 24 and then parallels I-24 to Eddyville. From Eddyville, US 62 parallels the Western Kentucky Parkway to Elizabethtown, where it intersects Interstate 65. Then US 62 parallels the Bluegrass Parkway to Versailles. From this point, US 62 no longer parallels highways, but heads northeast past Lexington and intersects Interstate 64 and Interstate 75and proceeds via Cynthiana to Maysville on the Ohio River via the William H. Harsha Bridge, from where US 62 in Ohio continues to Columbus.
US 62 was created in 1930 with Maysville as its eastern terminus. In 1932 the route was extended further to New York. The Cairo Ohio River Bridge opened in 1937. The fact that US 62 was a somewhat more secondary east-west route was still visible in the 1930s, where US 60 was already completely paved, US 62 still had unpaved parts. The Western Kentucky Parkway opened in 1963 and the Bluegrass Parkway opened in 1966, replacing large portions of US 62 with freeways. In the 1970s, Interstate 24 opened between Paducah and Eddyville, leaving only the westernmost and easternmost portions of US 62 uninterrupted by highways, which it ultimately remains today. In 2000 the. openedWilliam H. Harsha Bridge at Maysville.