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|established= |direction_a=West |terminus_a= near Eddyville |junction= |direction_b=East |terminus_b= in Elizabethtown |counties=Lyon, Caldwell, Hopkins, Muhlenberg, Ohio, Butler, Grayson, Hardin }} The Wendell H. Ford Western Kentucky Parkway is a controlled-access highway running from Elizabethtown, Kentucky to near Eddyville, Kentucky. It intersects with Interstate 65 at its eastern terminus, and Interstate 24 at its western terminus. It is one of nine highways that are part of the Kentucky parkway system. The road was renamed for Wendell H. Ford, a former Kentucky governor and United States Senator, in 1998. Previously, it was simply the Western Kentucky Parkway, and often called the "WK Parkway" because of the abbreviation once used on its signs. The Western Kentucky Parkway carries the unsigned designation of Kentucky Route 9001 (WK 9001) for its entire length. The portion from I-24 to the Pennyrile Parkway also carries the signed designation of Interstate 69. The section signed as I-69, the parkway is signed as former.〔(Governor Beshear announces approval of historic I-69 agreement, Kentucky.gov, Accessed Sep 24, 2011 )〕 It has been considered for the routing of I-50. ==Route description== The parkway passes the cities of Clarkson, Leitchfield, Caneyville, Beaver Dam, Central City, Madisonville, Dawson Springs, Princeton, and Eddyville. At exit 77 near Beaver Dam, the parkway intersects with the William H. Natcher Parkway, which goes from Bowling Green to Owensboro. At exit 38 near Madisonville, the parkway intersects with the Edward T. Breathitt Pennyrile Parkway, which runs from Hopkinsville to Henderson. The toll plazas were, from west to east: *Mile 78 (formerly Mile 10), just west of Princeton. Although this toll plaza was demolished shortly after the road became a freeway, its former location could still be seen in the form of a widened shoulder, which was not removed until 2012. *Exit 92 (formerly Exit 24), Dawson Springs *Exit 58, Central City *Exit 94, Caneyville (toll paid only by traffic exiting eastbound and entering westbound) *Exit 107, Leitchfield A service area featuring a gas station and an Arby's restaurant is located in the median, just west of the interchange with the Natcher Parkway. It is the only such service area in the entire Kentucky parkway system. (Two other service areas were once located on the old Kentucky Turnpike, a toll road from Louisville to Elizabethtown that predated the parkway system and later became part of I-65; they were closed when toll collection ended and the turnpike was officially absorbed into the Interstate Highway system.) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Western Kentucky Parkway」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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