Another section of U.S. 68 west of Cadiz has opened to four-lane traffic, although the state will not meet its Memorial Day target for opening most of the section to Canton.
Keith Todd with the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet said the four-lane section at the west intersection of Business 68 and Clarksdale Drive is open to just west of the Kentucky 272 intersection. The intersection at the main entrance to Lake Barkley State Park was also completed. Todd said eastbound traffic on U.S. 68 continues to be one lane from Averitt Lumber Road back to Cadiz.
He said engineers were hoping to have a substantial portion of the new four-lane road open by Monday, but with over half of the days in May seeing rain, efforts to complete paving have been slowed.
Five miles of highway from Averitt Lumber Road west to Canton remains two lanes.
Todd said motorists can expect some additional traffic shifts from time to time so that various stages of paving, landscaping, and other finish work can be completed. He estimated the project from Cadiz to Canton is 76-percent complete.
The four-lane section in western Trigg County is the final part of the Bowling Green to Mayfield project that actually began in Trigg County in 1991 and has seen U.S. 68 and Kentucky 80 become a four-lane highway with bypasses around Cadiz, Murray, Hopkinsville, Elkton, and Russellville.
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