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Transportation Cabinet - Central Office - All Headlines
Below is a list of all current press releases. To view the full text, click on the press release title.
- Dive team to place sensors on pier of damaged Kentucky Lake bridge
Monday, January 30, 2012
FRANKFORT, Ky. (Jan. 28, 2012) – A dive team from the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet (KYTC) plans to place sensors on a pier of the U.S. 68/KY 80 bridge over Kentucky Lake to help determine how badly it was damaged when a cargo vessel rammed the bridge Thursday night.
- Kentucky on verge of implementing data project to increase safety among commercial driver license holders
Thursday, January 26, 2012
FRANKFORT, Ky. (Jan. 25, 2012) – Important changes are ahead for holders of a Kentucky Commercial Driver License (CDL) as the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet implements a federally mandated database project aimed at improving highway safety.
- Highway crews mopping up from snow storm
Friday, January 13, 2012
FRANKFORT, Ky. (Jan. 13, 2012) – Kentucky Transportation Cabinet highway crews are winding up the plowing and treating of roads and bridges after the first significant snow storm of the winter moved across the Commonwealth.
- Highway crews plowing, treating roads
Friday, January 13, 2012
FRANKFORT, Ky. (Jan. 13, 2012) – Kentucky Transportation Cabinet highway crews worked through the night to keep roads and bridges passable as the first significant snow storm of the winter moved across the Commonwealth.
- This is the ‘season of (head)lights’
Wednesday, December 21, 2011
FRANKFORT, Ky. (Dec. 21, 2011) – The first day of winter is the “shortest” day of the year, meaning daylight is at its minimum. It’s also the season in which motorists find themselves driving more in the dark – and encountering others who are driving without headlights.
- State snow and ice crews ‘ready to go’
Monday, December 19, 2011
FRANKFORT, Ky. (Dec. 19, 2011) –Kentucky Transportation Cabinet (KYTC) maintenance crews are prepared to combat snow-covered and icy roads whenever they occur.
- Kentucky Transportation Cabinet announces winners of 2011 Adopt-a-Highway Poster Contest
Thursday, December 08, 2011
FRANKFORT, Ky. (Dec. 8, 2011) – Students from Randall K. Cooper High School in Boone County, Warren Central High School in Bowling Green, Whitney Young Elementary in Louisville and Strode Station Elementary in Clark County took first place in the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet’s 2011 Adopt-a-Highway poster contest.
- KYTC awards contract for project to increase public safety, mobility on roadways in vicinity of Kentucky Speedway
Monday, December 05, 2011
FRANKFORT, Ky. (Dec. 5, 2011) – The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet (KYTC) has awarded a contract for a project to increase public safety and mobility on Interstate 71 and other roadways in the vicinity of Kentucky Speedway, in Gallatin County.
- Over the river – not out of the woods – for some holiday travelers
Tuesday, November 22, 2011
FRANKFORT, Ky. (Nov. 22, 2011) – Transportation construction and maintenance projects will affect some travelers in Kentucky over the long Thanksgiving holiday weekend.
- Teen drivers encouraged to pay attention behind the wheel
Friday, October 14, 2011
The Kentucky Office of Highway Safety (KOHS) is helping raise awareness of distracted driving in teenagers during the National Teen Driver Safety Week, which occurs from Oct. 16-22.
- ‘Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over’ cites over 1,400 drunken drivers
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
FRANKFORT, Ky. (Oct. 11, 2011) – This year’s “Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over” enforcement effort, coordinated by the Kentucky Office of Highway Safety (KOHS), resulted in 1,480 citations for drunken driving.
- Newtown Pike Extension project competes for national ‘People’s Choice Award’
Monday, October 03, 2011
FRANKFORT, Ky. (Oct. 3, 2011) – The first completed phase of the Newtown Pike Extension project in Lexington is a finalist in the People’s Choice Award category of the America’s Transportation Awards competition.
- Kentucky reviewing bridge plans, carrying out extra inspections
Friday, September 30, 2011
FRANKFORT, Ky. (Sept. 30, 2011) – In accordance with a federal recommendation, Kentucky Transportation Cabinet bridge inspectors are double-checking bridges with high-strength steel components to ensure that any critical findings have been appropriately identified and addressed.
- Sales of ‘In God We Trust’ license plate top 100,000
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
FRANKFORT, Ky. (Sept. 28, 2011) – Kentuckians have purchased more than 100,000 standard license plates bearing the national motto, “In God We Trust,” since the plate was introduced in January as a no-added-cost option for passenger vehicles.
- Transportation Cabinet creates Web page for Sherman Minton detours
Friday, September 16, 2011
FRANKFORT, Ky. (Sept. 16, 2011) – The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet has created a Web page with interactive maps to help travelers navigate Interstate-64 during the closure of the Sherman Minton Bridge between Louisville and New Albany, Ind.
- Inspectors find no problems with Kennedy, Clark Memorial bridges
Friday, September 16, 2011
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (Sept. 16, 2011) – The two bridges that remain open between Louisville and Southern Indiana show no structural problems from the extra traffic they are carrying since the forced closure of the Interstate-64 Sherman Minton Bridge last weekend, Kentucky bridge inspectors have found.
- Kentucky, Indiana managing extraordinary traffic following closure of Sherman Minton Bridge on I-64
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (Sept. 12, 2011) – Transportation and law enforcement officials from Kentucky, Indiana and local governments today worked to shepherd an extraordinary volume of detoured traffic on the first work day following closure of the Interstate 64 Sherman Minton Bridge between Louisville and New Albany, Ind.
- Newtown Pike Extension project ranked one of nation’s best
Friday, September 02, 2011
FRANKFORT, Ky. (Sept. 1, 2011) –The first completed phase of the Newtown Pike Extension project in Lexington has been recognized by the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) as one of the best transportation projects in the United States.
- Absence of federal transportation bill jeopardizes necessary road and bridge projects throughout Southeast
Tuesday, August 23, 2011
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (Aug. 23, 2011) – Highway construction and repairs across the Southeast would have to be canceled or delayed if Congress allows the nation’s federal surface transportation funding program to expire, Kentucky Transportation Secretary Mike Hancock said today.
- KOHS, law enforcement warn motorists: Drive sober or get pulled over
Thursday, August 18, 2011
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (Aug. 18, 2011) — The Kentucky Office of Highway Safety (KOHS) and Louisville Metro Police Department will join nearly 10,000 law enforcement and highway safety agencies across the nation, Aug. 19 through Labor Day, to take part in the “Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over” crackdown on impaired driving. The campaign was announced today during a news conference at the Kentucky State Fair in Louisville.
- Chief transportation officers from 12 Southeastern states, Puerto Rico to convene in Louisville for SASHTO 2011 Conference
Thursday, August 18, 2011
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (Aug. 18, 2011) – The chief transportation officers of 12 Southeastern states and Puerto Rico will lead delegations to Louisville next week for the 70th Annual Conference of the Southeastern Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (SASHTO).
- Transportation Cabinet brings ‘information highway’ to Kentucky State Fair
Wednesday, August 17, 2011
FRANKFORT, Ky. (Aug. 17, 2011) – The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet (KYTC) is providing an “information highway” at the 2011 Kentucky State Fair.
- Kentucky Transportation Cabinet eager to ‘Adopt’ your student’s ideas
Friday, August 12, 2011
FRANKFORT, Ky. (Aug. 12, 2011) — The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet today announced the beginning of the 2011 Adopt-a-Highway Poster Contest. Students from across the Commonwealth are invited to submit creative works for use in the Adopt-a-Highway calendar for 2012. The contest is open to all Kentucky students of elementary, middle and high school age.
- Bridges Project Advisory Group to meet Aug. 25
Friday, August 12, 2011
Meeting Notice: Bridges Project Advisory Group to meet Aug. 25
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