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The King Coal Highway, also known as WV 108 near the Virginia border, is defined to run from WV 65 and Corridor G (US 119) near Belo, West Virginia, to I-77 at its US 52 interchange near Bluefield. [3] The Coalfields Expressway and the Shawnee Expressway will connect to the King Coal Highway.
The King Coal Highway is thought to be intended to open West Virginia’s southern coalfields to economic development, so in the early 1990s, the West Virginia Department of Transportation (WVDOT) decided to start construction on a segment from US 52 and US 460 (John Nash Boulevard) to WV 123 (Airport Road). Construction started sometime in the ...
The concept for the King Coal Highway was born in 1978 when the need for improved infrastructure in southern West Virginia sparked the movement for an interstate highway connecting six states ...
West Virginia Route 112 is an east–west state highway in southern West Virginia. The western terminus is at U.S. Route 19 east of Bluefield, in the shadow of a "bridge to nowhere" [2] on the future King Coal Highway. The eastern terminus is at U.S. Route 460 in Oakvale. WV 112 was formerly a portion of WV 12.
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Coal miners from West Virginia – whom locals have lovingly dubbed the “West Virginia Boys” – moved a mountain in just three days to reopen a 2.7-mile stretch of Highway 64 between Bat Cave ...
Mar. 19—WELCH — Work to construct a six-mile extension of the Coalfields Expressway from Mullins to Welch is set to begin this spring. Andrew Thomas, W.Va. Department of Highways (DOH ...
The remainder of the highway between the Interstate 77 junction and the Virginia state line at Glen Lyn opened in 1972 and 1973 (MP 15.84 to 27.06). [ 8 ] The only modification to the highway, with the exclusion of various traffic signal additions between Bluefield and Princeton, is an incomplete interchange with the King Coal Highway at the ...