{Kentucky}...The Kentucky Speedway has announced plans to spend more than $11 million to improve on traffic and parking problems that left thousands of fans stranded last month at the NASCAR inaugural Sprint Cup race. The state will spend $3.6 million to widen roads and add a pedestrian walkway beneath KY 35. Speedway officials say they will invest an estimated $7.5 million to create an extra 10,000 parking spaces on a newly-acquired 143-acre parcel of land to increase parking by 35 percent. Officials hope to have the work complete before the summer of 2012.
