The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet announced Monday that a previously proposed road reconfiguration of Dixie Highway in Erlanger, Elsmere and Florence, which provoked backlash among local residents and elected officials, will “not be done at this time.”
A representative from the cabinet informed LINK nky that the cabinet could revisit such a reconfiguration in the coming years, but for now, the work on Dixie Highway will be limited to resurfacing and other improvements that will not restructure the road.
In February, KYTC unveiled a “road diet” plan to reconfigure a 1.5-mile stretch of Dixie Highway between Turfway Road and the Dixie Highway/Commonwealth Avenue intersection. KYTC’s proposal called for reducing the road’s current four-lane configuration to three lanes. The current setup is two lanes running in each direction, divided by yellow lines. The proposed changes would have narrowed the roadway to one lane running in each direction with a shared turn lane in the middle.
The reconfiguration was, in fact, part of a larger repair and repaving project on the road, the rest of which will continue without the reconfiguration, according to the cabinet’s announcement. This work includes “resurfacing, base failure repairs, sidewalk and curb repairs, drainage repairs and radar detection at signalized intersections to promote safer, smoother travel,” according to the cabinet. That work will resume later this summer.
You can stay up to date with all of the region’s state road projects by consulting the KYTC District 6 online road show.
