Saturday, October 30, 2010
Rutherford Shows Concern For Mountain Parkway
KENTUCKY...
The Pike County Fiscal Court is requesting the Kentucky Department of Transportation make traveling to and from the capitol in Frankfort easier and safer.
Pike Judge Executive Wayne T. Rutherford requested the Fiscal Court adopt a resolution to make the Mountain Parkway a four lane highway.
The highway, named after former governor Bert T. Combs, begins in Salyersville and connects to US 64 near Winchester. The road stretches 76 miles, 33 of which is a two lane road, which Rutherford calls “a disgrace.”
“You can go to Charleston, the capitol of West Virginia, on a four lane highway,” the judge said. “But to travel to our capitol, you only have a two lane road.”
Rutherford referred to the amount of money the county generates in tax revenue.
“I have been on all the parkways in Kentucky,” he said. “Most of them are in farm country, they don’t contribute to the state’s coffers the way energy rich Eastern Kentucky does.”
He went on to explain he feels a turnpike should be established, using money collected from tolls to pay for the highway.
“Mountain Parkway is the most dangerous road in Kentucky,” Rutherford said.
The Pike County Fiscal Court is requesting the Kentucky Department of Transportation make traveling to and from the capitol in Frankfort easier and safer.
Pike Judge Executive Wayne T. Rutherford requested the Fiscal Court adopt a resolution to make the Mountain Parkway a four lane highway.
The highway, named after former governor Bert T. Combs, begins in Salyersville and connects to US 64 near Winchester. The road stretches 76 miles, 33 of which is a two lane road, which Rutherford calls “a disgrace.”
“You can go to Charleston, the capitol of West Virginia, on a four lane highway,” the judge said. “But to travel to our capitol, you only have a two lane road.”
Rutherford referred to the amount of money the county generates in tax revenue.
“I have been on all the parkways in Kentucky,” he said. “Most of them are in farm country, they don’t contribute to the state’s coffers the way energy rich Eastern Kentucky does.”
He went on to explain he feels a turnpike should be established, using money collected from tolls to pay for the highway.
“Mountain Parkway is the most dangerous road in Kentucky,” Rutherford said.
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