Lawmakers Consider Road Budget

{Frankfort, Kentucky}...Lawmakers still haven't come to terms on a six-year, $10.6 billion proposal to fund road and bridge projects across Kentucky. Lawmakers are scheduled to reconvene Thursday for the final day of this year's legislative session. That means negotiators have only two more days to work out differences in the competing proposals offered by the Democratic-controlled House and the Republican-led Senate. State Rep. Sannie Overly, D-Paris, the leading negotiator for the Democrats, said Monday that lawmakers also haven't reached accord on $3.5 billion worth of road construction projects for the next two years. The House and Senate have agreed on funding for the state's single largest project, $2.6 billion for two bridges across the Ohio River in Louisville. Yet to be decided are the hundreds of relatively small road and bridge projects that lawmakers are pushing for in their local communities.