Kentucky_Route_155 Knowpia

Kentucky Route 155
Kentucky Route 155
Taylorsville Road, Taylorsville Lake Road
	KY 155 highlighted in red
Route information
	Maintained by KYTC
Length	20.788 mi (33.455 km)
Major junctions
South end	KY 55 / KY 1663 in Elk Creek
	I-265 / KY 841 near Jeffersontown; I-264 in Louisville
North end	US 31E / US 150 in Louisville
Location
Country	United States
State	Kentucky
Counties	Jefferson, Spencer
Highway system
	Kentucky State Highway System; Interstate; US; State; Parkways;

Kentucky Route 155 (KY 155) is a 20.788-mile-long (33.455 km) state highway in the U.S. state of Kentucky. The route originates at a junction with U.S. Route 31E and US 150 (Bardstown Road) in Louisville, Kentucky. On the other side of intersection, KY 155 becomes a local road called Trevilian Way. KY 155 continues through several Louisville suburbs to Jeffersontown, Kentucky and into Spencer County, where it eventually merges with Kentucky Route 55 a few miles north of Taylorsville, Kentucky.

It is known locally as Taylorsville Road from its northern terminus until a junction with Kentucky Route 148 in Jefferson County, where it is known as Taylorsville Lake Road until reaching its southern terminus. Despite what its two local names would suggest, KY 155 itself does not actually reach either Taylorsville Lake or Taylorsville, but through connecting roads it is the primary non-interstate link between Louisville and both of those locations.

It is 4 to 6 lanes through much of Jefferson County, and is a major thoroughfare connecting Louisville's inner east side neighborhoods with suburban shopping and business areas, such as the Hurstbourne Parkway corridor. It interchanges with both I-264 and I-265.

History edit

KY 155's history is relatively lengthy, the intersection with Bardstown Road (once called the Bardstown Turnpike) was originally known as Doup's Point, the home of a major Louisville family. In 1848 legislation was passed authorizing the construction of a spur route from the Bardstown Turnpike near Doup's Point to Taylorsville, by way of Jeffersontown. The route, initially called the Louisville and Taylorsville Pike, was completed by the late 19th century and was expanded to 4 lanes in the 1960s.^[2] In the early 1990s, as a part of improvements to I-264 and its interchanges, KY 155 was widened to 6 lanes south of the interchange and local access roads were built parallel to it, to provide easier access for residents whose driveways had previously opened onto the highway.

Major intersections edit

County	Location	mi^[1]	km	Destinations	Notes
Spencer	Elk Creek	0.000	0.000	KY 55 / KY 1633 south – Taylorsville, Shelbyville	Southern terminus
Spencer		2.518	4.052	KY 3192 south – Wilsonville	Northern terminus of KY 3192
Jefferson	Louisville	7.280	11.716	KY 1531 south (Routt Road)	South end of KY 1531 overlap
		8.504	13.686	KY 148 east / KY 1531 north (Taylorsville Road) – Finchville	Sorth end of KY 1531 overlap
		8.950	14.404	Hatmaker Trail (KY 2265 south)
		10.305	16.584	I-265 / KY 841 to I-64 / I-65	I-265 exit 23
		12.494	20.107	KY 913 north (Blankenbaker Parkway)	Southern terminus of KY 913
	Jeffersontown	13.271	21.358	KY 1819 (Ruckriegel Parkway)
	Louisville–Jeffersontown line	15.642	25.173	KY 1747 (South Hurstbourne Parkway) to I-64
	Louisville	17.837	28.706	KY 1932 (Breckenridge Lane)
		18.951	30.499	I-264 (Watterson Expressway)	I-264 exit 17
		19.348	31.138	Dutchmans Lane (KY 2048 north)
		20.788	33.455	US 31E / US 150 (Bardstown Road)	Northern terminus
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi

References edit

^ ^a ^b Commonwealth of Kentucky. "Official DMI Route Log". Retrieved 27 December 2012.
^ "Seneca Gardens history". Archived from the original on 2007-03-17. Retrieved 2007-04-08.