Talk:Interstate 264 (Kentucky)
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The Henry Watterson Expressway ends at the Ohio River. I-64 then starts in Indiana and I-265, veers off I-64. I-265 in Indiana is The Lee Hamilton Highway.
[edit] dead & info-free website links
The References section, aside from the USDOT link, has three links that either don't have any encyclopedic info or are just plain dead links. Maybe someone more knowledgeable about the subject and the policy can clean these up. - Special-T 20:10, 27 February 2007 (UTC)
Just read more about it at WP:EL and removed these links as per its guidelines. - Special-T 13:46, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] problems
There are some serious factual errors on the article page, although I cannot provide corrections. I am a native Louisvillian, and I know for a fact that I-264 was called the Watterson LONG before 1984. I heard it referred to as such in the 1970s, and I have a map from 1955 that shows the Watterson Expressway. So it had to be built before 1956 as well. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Graceful1 (talk • contribs) 13:39, 7 April 2007 (UTC).
- I grew up in Louisville in the 1950s and 60s and wish to concur with and expand on this view. It was named the Henry Watterson Expressway (and colloquially referred to as "the Watterson") as far back as I can remember. It was originally the US 60 bypass; the name I-264 did not appear until around 1960. The stretch through South Louisville, from Crittenden Drive to about Manslick Road, felt archaic even when I was a boy, and could well date from the immediate postwar era. If so, that part of the Watterson could be one of the oldest urban freeways in the USA. The stretch around the airport was probably built in conjunction with the Kentucky Turnpike, which opened in 1956. My late father told me that in the early 1950s, he did not use any freeway to get to and from Standiford Field for business trips. His library included a 1952 map of Louisville which showed not an inch of freeway anywhere. I recall interchange construction in the late 1950s at Taylorsville Road and Breckinridge Lane. The on and off ramps at Newburg Road and Poplar Level Road were an unsafe horror. The huge rebuild of the Watterson in the 1980s and 90s was utterly necessary not only because the road had become badly congested, but also because the original road was quite substandard, evidence that highway engineering in mid-century Kentucky left much to be desired. For almost of all the past 50 years, the Watterson has suffered from some combination of congestion, poor design, and massive reconstruction. My extended family has become quite adept at avoiding it.132.181.160.42 12:50, 24 June 2007 (UTC)
- You guys are right about the name, it apparently has been officially the Watterson Expressway since 1952. According to my source the first 2.4 mile stretch between Bardstown and Breckenridge opened in 1949, and was called the "Inner-Belt". Other than the naming (which I'll fix) this doesn't seem to conflict with what's in the article already. --W.marsh 14:18, 24 June 2007 (UTC)
