Salyersville, KY — Governor Matt Bevin joined local elected officials in Magoffin County today to announce the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet (KYTC) will begin construction in August on the newest segment of the Mountain Parkway Expansion, continuing a major corridor expansion to benefit Eastern Kentucky. The more than $70 million construction project will widen and improve a crash-prone section of the parkway near the Magoffin and Morgan county line. When completed, this section of the parkway will be widened to four lanes and connect two adjacent segments of existing four-lane traffic. Planned improvements include:
• Widening the parkway to four lanes between mile points 65 and 69.6
• Making safety improvements to a crash-prone curve around the mountain
• Adding an interchange at KY 3046 (Kernie-Ova-Seitz Road) to provide local Parkway access
The Magoffin County West segment will connect the new, four-lane roadway currently being built in Morgan County with a four-lane section already completed near Salyersville, creating a 21-mile stretch of continuous roadway throughout the project. The completion of this segment will improve mobility through this corridor and eliminate what has been a choke point for drivers—the only stretch of the Parkway for 21 miles where traffic remains constrained to two lanes. The first completed segment of the Mountain Parkway Expansion Project was the Magoffin County Central segment, in 2016. The Parkway is currently undergoing construction in Morgan County and on Restaurant Row in Salyersville. Restaurant Row is on track for completion by the end of fall 2019. The new Magoffin County West segment will be phased into construction in August and will remain under construction for the next three years, due for completion in the fall of 2022.
