Why not just reconstruct KY 80 for use as the interstate?
Several alternatives for using KY 80 from near KY 461 on the west end to near the Wal-Mart Distribution Center on the east end of KY 80 are under consideration for the design of I-66. An interstate facility requires that there be no direct access to the roadway other than from grade-separated interchanges. Directly utilizing KY 80 as the interstate will require existing homes, businesses, and smaller cross-roads to be served by a frontage road system that would also have to be constructed adjacent to the interstate. An alternative is to utilize all or part of KY 80 as the frontage road and parallel the new facility adjacent to it. Alternatives following KY 80 past the Wal-Mart distribution Center to I-75 at London would require the relocation of most of the businesses along the route and was determined to be cost prohibitive as well as causing disproportional economic impacts. • Why not just follow KY 80 into London? Go north of London? The Final Planning Study did examine these option
