I’ve had a bone to pick with Louisville highways for a long time. I actually remember thinking, in the 2000s, “This has been going on non-stop for 30 years. When is this ever going to be finished?”
Louisville Road Work
I’m not kidding. And I may have actually said it out loud, while driving alone. We were in Louisville a lot when I was a kid in the 70s because my grandmother lived there. I guess because I was fascinated with interstate highways when I was young (I really was; you could ask my mom if she was still living), I remembered the heavy road work we encountered 30 years later. But that’s because it was still happening. Don’t look now, but…
I enjoy Louisville, and I’ve even decided that its traffic has actually gotten better than Nashville’s. I used to champion Music City driving over Derby City driving, but not anymore. Honestly, it’s been nice over the last several months, if not the last couple of years, to be able to drive through Louisville without dealing with road work.
A Dangerous Louisville Interchange
The thing is, no amount of road work, perhaps, can change the fact that one of the city’s exit ramps is dangerous enough to have a list of the 25 most dangerous exit ramps in the country. It’s the Interstate 64/65 interchange downtown that made the cut at number 24, after research revealed that there have been 42 fatal accidents connected to this interchange over the last decade. Memphis and Nashville are also represented in these unfortunate rankings.
Lemon Law Experts crunched the numbers, and the data was pretty straightforward. The study was based on the number of crash-related fatalities on each of these ramps. The Interstate 5/California 4 interchange tops the list due to increased truck traffic…