Interstate 169 (Kentucky)
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| Maintained by KYTC | ||||
| Length: | 34.271 mi (55.154 km) | |||
| Existed: | May 7, 2017 – present | |||
| History: | Opened in 1976 as the Pennyrile Parkway Redesignated as I-169 on May 7, 2017 |
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| South end: |
 I-24 Exit 81 near Oak Grove
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 US 41 in Hopkinsville  US 68 / KY 80 in Hopkinsville US 62 near Nortonville |
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| North end: |
  I-69 / Western Kentucky Parkway near Nortonville
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| Counties: | Christian, Hopkins | |||
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Interstate 169 (I-169) is a 34-mile-long (55 km) freeway that travels along the former Pennyrile Parkway in Kentucky. The route was designated on May 7, 2017.
The route begins at a trumpet interchange with I-24 near Oak Grove. It runs northward into the city of Hopkinsville and ends at I-69/Western Kentucky Parkway near Nortonville. I-169 has a total of 11 interchanges with various highways along the route.
The freeway was originally known solely as, and part of the Edward T. Breathitt Pennyrile Parkway, one of the original nine parkways in the Kentucky parkway system, from its 1969 opening until May 7, 2017, when the U.S. House of Representatives officially designated the section from I-24 junction in southern Christian County to the I-69/Western Kentucky Parkway junction near Nortonville. In addition to I-169’s current alignment, the Pennyrile Parkway also traveled further northward to its original terminus in Henderson until most of that stretch of the Pennyrile became signed as I-69 in November 2015. US 41 followed the remaining routing of the Pennyrile Parkway from the Henderson Bypass exit to the US 41/60 junction in Henderson. After the I-169 designation was made official on May 7, 2017, the unsigned KY 9004 designation associated with the parkway was removed.
The first 7 miles (11 km) was not built and completed until March 2011. The Pennyrile Parkway’s original southern terminus was at the Exit 7 interchange in Hopkinsville. Construction of that section was built in phases from 2009 to 2011. At some point in the early 2010s after I-69 was designated onto the first 38 miles (61 km) of the Western Kentucky Parkway, the current I-169 alignment was rumored to be a future I-24 spur instead, in which no plans were made.
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