At the Opening Session of the 37th Annual Kentucky Transportation Conference sponsored by Kentuckians for Better Transportation, KYTC Secretary Mike Hancock and KYTC Deputy Secretary Russ Romine spoke about the very probable drop of the Kentucky fuel tax and its impact on the Commonwealth. As the fuel tax is the major source of revenue for the Kentucky Road Fund, this drop is a major concern as there could be the loss of nearly $130 million for this fund. The implications impact projects across the state ranging from local maintenance to many of the much larger projects. For more information, click here.

The Kentucky General Assembly is in session and this is a topic that will be discussed. We encourage you to reach out to your local representative and senator to educate them on the issues and the need for a fix to this.

Please let us know if you have any questions.

- KYSITE Officers

kysite@kysite.com

Waze Connected Citizens Program

Below is an excerpt from the KYTC website

The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet and Waze, the real-time, "crowd-sourced" navigation app powered by the world's largest communities of drivers, have entered into a partnership through the new Waze Connected Citizens program, the company's largest municipal effort to date.

Waze is a GPS-based geographical navigation application program for smartphones with GPS support and display screens. It provides turn-by-turn information and user-submitted travel times and route details, downloading location-dependent information over a mobile telephone network.

The mission of Waze Connected Citizens is to help cities, citizens and "Wazers", as drivers using the app are known, collaborate to improve their community and answer the question: "What's happening on our roads right not, and where?"

For more information click here.

KYSITE Spring Meeting

Spring is not too far away. This meeting is always a great opportunity to start the year off right. Reconnect with old friends, meet new people, all while getting PDH's.

More details to follow soon.

SDITE 2015: Call for Presentations

The Deep South Section of ITE, in cooperation with the SDITE Technical Knowledge Team, is now accepting abstracts for the 2015 Southern District ITE Annual Meeting, to be held April 19-22, 2015, at the Beau Rivage Resort in Biloxi, Mississippi. Presenting at the 2015 SDITE Annual Meeting is a great opportunity to share your ideas, knowledge, expertise, and innovations with your peers. Please see this link for suggested topics and abstract submittal information.

Please submit your abstract in PDF format via email by January 30, 2015 to sstrength@lsu.edu. Should you have any questions, you may reach Steve Strength, Technical Committee Chair at steve.strength@la.gov (this is different from the address for submitting abstracts) or at (225) 767-9118.

For more information on the 2015 Southern District ITE Annual Meeting, please visit http://sdite2015.org

Mysterious Old Bridges

This week's mysterious old bridge crosses a beautiful river in Luxembourg. Thanks to Charles Schaub for passing these along.

Mullerthal, Luxembourg

Source

Weird Signs

Submitted by: Billy Garrison

Quick Hits

Traffic lights on your windshield?

How FHWA makes walking, biking safer

KY gas tax might drop over a nickel April 1

Is "Safe" Road Design Killing Bicyclists and Pedestrians?

NTSB 2015 Most Wanted Safety Improvements List

Have You Seen That?

Our faithful readers know that re-cut movies are one our favorite items to show in this feature. This edition, we wonder what if the blockbuster movie Jaws was actually made by the folks at Disney. Enjoy!

What If 'Jaws' Was A Disney Movie?

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2015 KYSITE Board; and

Stuart Sparks, Editor
Scott Walker, Editor