Gov. Beshear Presents Funding for Town Branch Commons Corridor

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Governor Steve Beshear today ceremonially presented $2.7 million in funding for another section of Lexington's long-awaited urban park known as Town Branch Commons.

The project is to include creation of a badly needed pedestrian crossing, with signal, on heavily traveled Vine Street in the vicinity of the central transit center for Lextran, the public transportation system for Lexington.

"The Town Branch Commons project is going to yield enormous benefits to the thousands upon thousands of people who live, work, play and visit downtown Lexington," Gov. Beshear said. "But one of its greatest benefits will be a major safety improvement for pedestrians who don't currently have a protected way to get across Vine Street to access the Lextran transit center and the public transportation services they rely on.

"It's an everyday sight -- and too often a harrowing sight -- to see pedestrians walking between moving cars to get across Vine Street and finally climbing over a barrier divider to get into the transit center. We can do better than that -- and we will," Gov. Beshear said.

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