KYTC removes HWY 151 from National Truck Network on emergency basis

ALTON, Ky. (WTVQ) – The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet announced on Friday that HWY 151 has been removed from the National Truck Network on an emergency basis.

This after a long-standing petition from local residents to have an engineering study done of the highway, hoping the study would show that high-speed traffic and weigh-load limits exceed current standards.

The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet says there were 88 accidents on Graefenburg Road between 2012 and 2014.

Ryan Watts, Executive Director of the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet says they are working on making the emergency ban a permanent one.

The ban takes effect starting Friday, April 29.