U.S. Route 31E#History

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US 31E begins as the Ellington Parkway at the corner of Main Street and US 31, US 31W, US 41 and US 431 (Spring Street) just east of Interstate 24 (I-24). It never intersects Interstate 40. The freeway's interchanges in the middle of the route mainly includes locally maintained streets such as Cleveland Street, East Trinity Lane, Hart Lane, and Broadmoor Drive.{{cite map |author= DeLorme |author-link= DeLorme |year= 2004 |map= |title= Tennessee Atlas & Gazetteer |location= Yarmouth, ME |publisher= DeLorme }}{{full citation needed|date= June 2016}}

Ellington Parkway ends at an interchange with SR 155 (Briley Parkway), about {{convert|0.56|mi|m}} east of the Briley's I-65 junction. A ramp directing Ellington Parkway's northbound traffic to I-65 north is provided at the Briley/Ellington junction. Access to Ellington Parkway southbound is also provided by a ramp from I-65 south via exit 90A. The road is named for former Tennessee governor Buford Ellington, who served two non-consecutive terms from 1959 to 1963, the other from 1967 to 1971. Ellington encouraged much road building throughout the state during his second term as governor.

After a brief concurrency with SR 155, the highway passes through Madison before entering Sumner County, where it passes through the cities of Hendersonville and Gallatin, Tennessee. It begins a concurrency with US 231 just east of Bethpage.

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U.S. Route 31E is the easternmost of two parallel routes for U.S. Highway 31 in Kentucky, in between each is Interstate 65 in Kentucky. Going north from the Kentucky–Tennessee border, the highway goes through the towns of Scottsville (where the US 231 concurrency ends), Glasgow, Hardyville, Hodgenville, New Haven, Bardstown, and Mount Washington before arriving at its northern end in downtown Louisville at the junction of US 31W and US 31 just south of the George Rogers Clark Memorial Bridge.

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Its only interchanges with interstates are in Jefferson County; both of which are beltways: I-265/Gene Snyder Expressway and the Interstate 264 (Watterson Expressway). However, it also has interchanges with the Louie B. Nunn Cumberland Parkway in Barren County, and the Martha Layne Collins Blue Grass Parkway in Nelson County.

In the 19th century, much of the present-day route of US 31E was a stagecoach path between Louisville and Nashville, and before that a postal route at least by 1820.Kleber p.16

Originally part of the Jackson Highway, the Works Progress Administration measured the total distance on US 31E in Kentucky as {{convert|147.8|mi|km}}.Simon pp.288,289

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The American Association of State Highway Officials (AASHO) adopted a resolution against split routes in 1934. In order to eliminate the split in US 31 between Nashville, Tennessee, and Louisville, Kentucky, AASHO commissioned U.S. Route 37, replacing US 31E from the Louisville area south to Glasgow, Kentucky, where it then followed Kentucky Route 63 and several routes in Tennessee to Chattanooga. The rest of US 31E from Glasgow to Nashville was assigned U.S. Route 143. This proposed route was extended southwest to Centerville in 1938 and Jackson in 1944 via State Route 100 and State Route 20. US 31W would have become the main route of US 31.

Kentucky and Tennessee refused to accept the renumbering and never changed signage for the routes. In 1952, AASHO re-recognized the split, officially restoring the US 31E and US 31W designations.

US 31E and US 31W once terminated at US 31 in Sellersburg, Indiana until 1980. US 31E followed the current routing of US 31 from Sellersburg to Louisville.

In Nashville, US 31E once followed Gallatin Pike through east Nashville. Sometime after 1997, US 31E was rerouted onto Ellington Parkway.

US 31E has been known as a dangerous road, with many risky spots. A historic one was at Coxs Creek in Nelson County, where a post office had to be relocated so traffic could see each other.Rennick p.70 Other dangerous spots in Nelson County where emergency personnel consider notorious are Gobel Lake Curve, Hibbs Lane, and High Grove.{{cite news|url=http://www.us31e.com/WEB_US31Enewsletter-Fall2004.pdf|title=US 31E Nelson-Spencer Counties|date=Fall 2004|publisher=Kentucky Transportation Cabinet|access-date=January 10, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081226222942/http://www.us31e.com/WEB_US31Enewsletter-Fall2004.pdf|archive-date=December 26, 2008|url-status=dead}} As of August 23, 2017, the Hibbs Lane and High Grove reroute sections are almost complete and are in service. Minor work is still being done to some intersections and signage.

There are various historical sites along US 31E in Kentucky. Among them are Cave Hill Cemetery and Farmington Historic Plantation in Louisville, My Old Kentucky Home State Park in Bardstown, and Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historical Park near Hodgenville. Also, five historic monuments to the Civil War are along the path: three in Louisville, one in Bardstown, and one in Glasgow.{{Cite journal|title=National Register of Historic Places Multiple Property Submission: Civil War Monuments in Kentucky, 1865-1935|url={{NRHP url|id=64500229}} |format=pdf|date=January 8, 1997 |author=Joseph E. Brent |publisher=National Park Service}}

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|road={{jct|state=KY|KY|155|dir1=south|name1=Taylorsville Road}}

|notes=Northern terminus of KY 155

}}

{{KYint

|mile=136.989

|road={{jct|state=KY|US-Alt|60|dab1=Louisville|name1=Eastern Parkway}}

}}

{{KYint

|mile=137.786

|road={{jct|state=KY|KY|2860|name1=Grinstead Drive}}

}}

{{KYint

|mile=138.016

|road={{jct|state=KY|KY|1703|dir1=south|name1=Baxter Avenue}}

|notes=Northern terminus of KY 1703

}}

{{KYint

|type=concur

|mile=138.264

|road={{jct|state=KY|US|150|dir1=west|name1=East Broadway}}

|notes=North end of US 150 overlap

}}

{{KYint

|mile=138.904

|road={{jct|state=KY|KY|864|dir1=south|name1=Chestnut Street}}

|notes=Northern terminus of KY 864

}}

{{KYint

|type=concur

|mile=

|road=Market Street ({{jct|state=KY|US|31E|US|60|noshield=yes|nolink1=yes}})

|notes=One-way street, inbound access only; south end of US 60 east overlap

}}

{{KYint

|type=concur

|mile=139.086

|mspan=2

|road={{jct|state=KY|US|60|dir1=east|name1={{jct|state=KY|US|42|dir1=east|noshield=yes}} }}

|notes=One-way street, outbound access only; north end of northbound US 60 east overlap; western terminus of US 42; no access southbound

}}

{{KYint

|type=concur

|mile=none

|road={{jct|state=KY|US|60|name1={{jct|state=KY|US|42|noshield=yes}} }}

|notes=One-way street, inbound access only; south end of US 60 west overlap; western terminus of US 42; no access southbound

}}

{{KYint

|mile=

|road={{jctname|state=KY|KY|61|dir1=north|name1=Jackson Street|noshield=yes}}

|notes=One-way street; northern terminus of KY 61 at US 31E north (Main Street)

}}

{{KYint

|mile=139.819

|road={{jctname|state=KY|KY|61|dir1=south|name1=Preston Street|noshield1=yes|to2=to|I|64|I|71}}

|notes=One-way street; northern terminus of KY 61 at US 31E north (Main Street)

}}

{{KYint

|type=concur

|mile=

|road={{jctname|state=KY|KY|1020|dir1=south|noshield=yes|name1=Second Street south|road|Market Street ({{jct|state=KY|US|31W|US|60|noshield=yes}})}}

|notes=Market St. is one-way street; inbound access only; northern terminus of KY 1020; north end of southbound US 60 east overlap; no northbound access

}}

{{KYint

|type=trans

|mile=140.250

|road={{jctname|state=KY|US|31|dir1=north|name1=Clark Bridge|name2=Main Street west|US|60|dir2=west|US|31W|noshield=yes}}

|notes=US 31E and US 31W merge into US 31; north end of US 60 west overlap

}}

{{jctbtm|col=7|keys=concur,incomplete,trans}}

{{infobox road small

|state=TN

|type=US-Byp

|route=31E

|location=Hendersonville, Tennessee

|formed=1981

}}

An unsigned portion consisting primarily of Tennessee State Route 386 is known as the U.S. Route 31E Bypass.

{{Infobox road small

|state=KY

|type=US-Bus

|route=31E

|location=Glasgow

|formed=

|length_mi=3.24

|length_round=3

|length_ref=

}}

U.S. Route 31E Business starts near the Southgate Shopping Center 0.379 mile north of the Exit 11 interchange of the Louie B. Nunn Cumberland Parkway, and intersects Kentucky Routes 249 and 63 before reaching the Barren County Courthouse at the Public Square. It then joins US 68 Business for only 0.123 miles before right-turning onto North Race Street. US 31E Business then follows North Race Street, passes the T.J. Samson Hospital, and ends at an intersection with the regular US 31E alignment on the north side of town about one mile south of the Veterans Outer Loop.

{{KYinttop|length_ref={{cite web|url=http://apps.transportation.ky.gov/DMI_Reports/Official_MP_RL_params.aspx|title=Official DMI Route Log|last=Commonwealth of Kentucky|access-date=July 28, 2015}}|county=Barren|location=Glasgow}}

{{KYint

|mile=0.000

|road={{Jct|state=KY|US|31E|name1=S L Rogers Wells Boulevard}}

|notes=Western terminus

}}

{{KYint

|mile=1.001

|road={{Jct|state=KY|KY|249|dir1=south|name1=Bunche Avenue}}

|notes=Northern terminus of KY 249

}}

{{KYint

|mile=1.269

|road={{Jct|state=KY|KY|63|dir1=east|name1=East College Street}}

|notes=Western terminus of KY 63

}}

{{KYint

|type=concur

|mile=1.406

|road={{Jct|state=KY|KY|80|KY|90|US-Bus|68|dir1=east|dir2=east|dir3=east|name1=East Main Street}}

|notes=Begin concurrency with KY 80/KY 90/US-Bus 68

}}

{{KYint

|type=concur

|mile=1.516

|road={{Jct|state=KY|US-Bus|68|KY|80|KY|90|dir1=west|dir2=west|dir3=west|name3=West Main Street}}

|notes=End concurrency with KY 80/KY 90/US-Bus 68

}}

{{KYint

|type=concur

|mile=2.118

|road=Happy Valley Road

|notes=Old KY 90; previously KY 90 Alternate

}}

{{KYint

|mile=3.240

|road={{Jct|state=KY|US|31E|road|Glasgow Bypass}}

|notes=Eastern terminus

}}

{{Jctbtm|keys=concur}}

{{infobox road small

|state=KY

|type=US-Truck

|route=31E

|location=Bardstown

}}

U.S. Route 31E Truck (US 31E Truck) is the truck route of US 31E in the Nelson County seat of Bardstown.

The truck route consists of the following designations:

• Bluegrass Parkway between exits 21 and 25.
• U.S. Route 150 between the Bluegrass Parkway and KY 245, and
• Kentucky Route 245 bypass from US 150 east of downtown to US 31E/150 north of downtown.

{{Clear}}

{{Infobox road small

|state=KY

|type=US

|route=31EX

|location=Mount Washington

|formed=

|length_mi=2.487

|length_round=3

|length_ref=

}}

U.S. Route 31EX (US 31EX) is the business route of US 31E in the Bullitt County town of Mount Washington. The only two major intersections it has besides the main alignment is with KY 44 and KY 2706 in the town's business district. The route is {{convert|2.487|mi}} long. At the intersection with KY 44, US 31EX is incorrectly signed as a Kentucky state route.

{{Clear}}

{{KYinttop|length_ref=|county=Bullitt|location=Mount Washington}}

{{KYint

|mile=0.000

|road={{Jct|state=KY|US|31E|US|150}}

|notes=Southern terminus

}}

{{KYint

|mile=0.560

|road={{Jct|state=KY|KY|44}}

|notes=

}}

{{KYint

|mile=0.828

|road={{Jct|state=KY|KY|2706|dir1=west}}

|notes=Eastern terminus of KY 2706

}}

{{KYint

|mile=2.487

|road={{Jct|state=KY|US|31E|US|150}}

|notes=Northern terminus

}}

{{Jctbtm}}

{{Portal|United States|U.S. Roads}}

• Roads in Louisville, Kentucky
• Roads in Nashville, Tennessee

{{Reflist}}

• {{cite book|title=The Kentucky Encyclopedia|editor=Kleber|publisher=University Press of Kentucky|year=1992|isbn=0-8131-1772-0}}
• {{cite book|last=Rennick|first=Robert M.|title=Kentucky Place Names|publisher=University Press of Kentucky|year=1988|isbn=0-8131-0179-4}}
• {{cite book|last=Simon|first=F. Kevin|title=The WPA Guide to Kentucky: A Guide to the Bluegrass State|publisher=University Press of Kentucky|year=1996|isbn=0-8131-0865-9}}

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