Thursday, June 15, 2000
Traffic tips if you're going to the Speedway
By Terry Flynn
The Cincinnati Enquirer
SPARTA — If you're going to the races at Kentucky Speedway Friday or Saturday, here's some sound advice: leave early and expect to sit in some slowed or stopped traffic along the way.
With upwards of 60,000 people converging on the new 1.5-mile speedway, Interstates 75 and 71 will bear the brunt of over 20,000 vehicles headed for the track here.
Track officials and the state highway department will attempt to make the trip to the speedway inaugural events as painless as possible with some highway changes and some travel tips:
• Concrete lane crossovers will be set up on I-71 just south of the Ky. 35 exit and 3 miles north of the exit - to permit the southbound traffic to use three lanes approaching the track. Officials estimated that up to 60 percent of the race day traffic will come from north of Sparta.
• The I-75 northbound ramp to I-71 will be closed and traffic will be detoured to the Richwood (Ky. 338) exit.
• All five lanes of Ky. 35 will be inbound to the speedway before the races, marked by traffic cones and signs.
• The right lanes of I-71 northbound and southbound at the Ky. 35 exit ramps will be closed, to allow merging traffic free flow onto I-71 after the races.
Expect congestion at the I-75/I-71 split in Boone County and the construction area at the Donaldson Road exits off I-75 in Erlanger.
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