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The Transit Authority of River City (TARC) is the major public transportation provider for Louisville, Kentucky and parts of southern Indiana, including the suburbs of Clark County and Floyd County. TARC is publicly funded and absorbed private mass-transit companies in Louisville, the largest of which was the Louisville Transit Company.
The Louisville and Nashville Railroad, 1850–1963. University Press of Kentucky. ISBN 0-8131-2184-1. Kleber, John E. (1992). The Kentucky Encyclopedia. University Press of Kentucky. ISBN 0-8131-1772-0. Klein, Maury (2003). History of the Louisville & Nashville Railroad. University Press of Kentucky. ISBN 0-8131-2263-5. Wilson, Rick (1976).
Jackson Street, Preston Street, I-65, Arthur Street, Brandeis Avenue, Shelby Street, Lynn Street, Preston Street, Preston Highway KY 146: LaGrange Road, New LaGrange Road, Ridge Road KY 148: Fisherville Clark Station Road KY 155: Taylorsville Road KY 329: Covered Bridge Road KY 660: Waterford Road KY 841 [n 1] Gene Snyder Freeway KY 864
1923 - Head on collision between Trains 52 and 55 at Nelsonville, KY. 1932 - Franklin D. Roosevelt visits Stanford on the Lebanon Branch during a whistle stop campaign tour. 1940 - Centralized Traffic Control signalling installed on the Lebanon Branch between Lebanon Junction and Lebanon. 1941 - Collision between two trains at St. Francis, KY.
As with most American cities, transportation in Louisville, Kentucky, is based primarily on automobiles. However, the city traces its foundation to the era where the river was the primary means of transportation , and railroads have been an important part of local industry for over a century.
Kentucky is served by six major interstate highways (I-24, I-64, I-65, I-69, I-71, I-75), seven parkways, and six bypasses and spurs.The parkways were originally toll roads, but on November 22, 2006, Governor Ernie Fletcher ended the toll charges on the William H. Natcher Parkway and the Audubon Parkway, the last two parkways in Kentucky to charge tolls for access. [1]
Kentucky Route 1447 (KY 1447) is a 9.242-mile-long (14.874 km) state highway in the U.S. State of Kentucky. Its western terminus is at KY 1932 in Louisville and its eastern terminus is at KY 146 . History
Louisville and Atlantic Railroad: Big Sandy Railway: C&O: 1902 1906 Chesapeake and Ohio Railway of Kentucky: Big Sandy and Cumberland Railroad: BS&C N&W: 1900 1932 Norfolk and Western Railway: Big Sandy and Kentucky River Railway: BS&K C&O: 1912 1933 Chesapeake and Ohio Railway: Bowling Green and Tennessee Railroad: L&N: 1850 1852 Louisville ...