Project Info

Project Request Date: 10/25/2017
Project Requested By:  Preston Smith – Daviess County Middle School Student

Project Write-up

The requester was sponsoring a bill at the Kentucky Youth Assembly to require the installation of cable median barriers on all parkways and interstates in Kentucky. Information was requested to prepare for this bill.

Information Requested

• How many miles of KY parkways and interstates do not have barriers.
• Freeways that have natural barriers such as trees, hills and valleys (number of miles.)

Data Provided

• Query of a median barrier shape file from the HIS database.
• Data for “natural barriers” unavailable.

Median Barrier Map