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Kentucky Adopt-a-Highway Spring Clean Week Ends | Lexington Attorney

Today marks the end of Kentucky's Adopt-a-Highway Spring Clean Week, which involves numerous volunteers who "help keep our highways and communities beautiful and litter-free," said Mike Hancock, Acting Transportation Secretary.  According to the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet (KYTC), over 1,100 groups participate in the program, with volunteers cleaning about 8,800 miles of roadside each year.  Since the program began in 1988, there has been an increase in group involvement, now including Boy and Girl Scout troops, high school service clubs and organizations, college fraternities and sororities, church groups, and many others.

If you want to support tourism in the state, promote public awareness of environmental concerns, or show that you value improvements to the "scenic beauty" of Kentucky, you may wish to have your company, organization, or association volunteer with the Adopt-a-Highway program, suggests the website.  As your group shares in the responsibility of keeping Kentucky highways beautiful, you'll be a part of saving "thousands of taxpayer dollars" in the state:  the KYTC spends approximately $5 million annually to remove 96,000 bags of litter.  For more information about volunteering, visit the website of the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet.

With driver inattention as the leading factor in many central Kentucky crashes, littering may be among the distracted driving activities occurring in the state.  Among the roadways we see involved in central Kentucky and Lexington accidents are I-75, I-64, U.S. 27, 68, 127, 421.  If you have been injured on any of these roadways or elsewhere due to someone else's negligence, feel free to contact us online or by phone (toll free) at 866-239-0039 for free resources and answers to your important questions.