I'm looking at the Road Department employees picture and would like to know their names. Is the tall gentleman in front Robert Dean?

We live in Chicago - we view your magazine as we were raised in Adair county. Thank you, Shelby

I think it would be great for the truck drivers so that they realize a hazard for them to be downtown. It's not just an inconvenience for the people downtownk it's dangerous for an 18 wheeler to try to make that turn downtown.

In the old days of being able to read an atlas made a big difference. But only the old-timers remember how to do that I think now :-) My first trip down 119 between Harlem and Whitesburg before they closed it to commercial vehicles, I certainly wish it would've already been closed! It's called Kingdom Come Highway. The logger that help me back down the mountain that I followed we had actually get on the CB and say we were coming around the mountain curve there was no where for the other truck, except off the mountain.

I told him they named the highway Kingdom Come Highway because I said the Lords prayer the whole way down the mountain.

So agree it would be beneficial for the driver to know and have a sign posted there. I have to say I did look at the atlas before I made the trip to Whitesburg. It was long before cell phones or GPS. I had been to Harlem before on 119 and it wasn't bad, look to be the shortest route. Past Harlem there's not even a guard rail and a hairpin turn around every mountain curve. Beautiful, would be pretty in a car. By the way I didn't go back that way LOL. --Marie

A few years back I was forced off Lampton Lane due to a semi coming through the sharp curves. Vehicles that long simply cannot navigate curves like those without taking the entire road. Wasn't a huge deal but my concern was for other drivers, perhaps younger ones that might not react accordingly, or a school bus for obvious reasons. I reached out to the KY Dept of Highways about the possibility of banning semis on Lampton Lane and was essentially told that would be against the law due to the tax structure.

As for the bypass, everyone needs to keep in mind its design flaws. It is only beneficial to trucks either traveling east on the Parkway or north on 61 from Burkesville, and in those opposite directions.

The majority of truckers coming west into Columbia headed north will continue to cut through town. And as long as they do they will use their engine brakes on Jamestown Hill. Had an intersection been connected directly to the parkway, more Commercial drivers coming into Columbia from the east would definitely use it. So in short - it's the governments' fault(s).

I drove a truck for many years throughout 48 states. One of the things I saw a lot would be a sign at each end of a by-pass showing "Truck Route" using that road, and a sign on the other road indicating "Local Deliveries Only," with a picture of a truck on both signs.

Being able to read and understand the Truckers Road Atlas is still one of the best things.

• Adair: 270-384-2286
• Casey: 606-787-6911
• Clinton: 606-387-5711
• Cumberland: 270-864-2206
• Green: 270-932-4341
• McCreary: 606-376-2412
• Pulaski: 606-679-4416
• Russell: 270-343-2181
• Taylor: 270-465-4191
• Wayne: 606-348-9349

Big, beautiful, grand,
all seem to shrink as soon as
you put them in words.

• Adair County: 2 events Circuit Court. No events District Court.
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