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More than three years ago, the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet announced a plan for a new traffic pattern along Richmond Road and Athens-Boonesboro Road, one of Lexington’s busiest corridors.
While the traditional approach to alleviating traffic congestion was to simply widen the road and add more lanes, state officials said in 2022 that they were eager to try out a plan that hadn’t been used much in urban parts of the state before…