{Frankfort, Kentucky}...Thursday, the House Appropriations and Revenue Committee voted 25-1 to approve the construction plan that would funnel money to several major projects already underway, including widening dangerous stretches of Interstate 65 in western Kentucky and the Mountain Parkway in the east. The lone dissenter in the budget committee was Representative Jim Wayne, D-Louisville, who objected to what he considered tacit approval in the transportation budget of tolls to pay for two proposed Ohio Rivers bridges in Louisville. The transportation budget appropriates more than $300 million over the next two years for the Louisville bridges, which are expected to be completed by 2018 at a cost of nearly $2.6 billion.
