RCUT Project to Begin this Week in Daviess County
Project slated to be completed by mid-November
MADISONVILLE, Ky. (March 17, 2025) – A contractor for the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet is scheduled to begin a $3.5 million highway safety project along the U.S. 60 in Daviess County this week that will see the addition of Restricted Crossing U-Turns (RCUT) at Wright’s Landing and Hawes Boulevard.
Scotty’s Contracting & Stone, LLC plans to begin the project tomorrow, Tuesday, March 18. The contractor will begin milling and paving operations along the westbound median of the highway at 6:30 a.m. on Tuesday, which will result in lane restrictions on the westbound side of U.S. 60 through the project area. Lane restrictions will be in place from Monday at 6:30 a.m. until Friday at 3 p.m. There are no planned restrictions over the weekend.
The project is scheduled to be completed by mid-November 2025.
Between March 1, 2020 and March 1, 2025, a total 52 crashes were recorded at the intersections of Wright’s Landing and Hawes Boulevard with U.S. 60, including 16 injuries and four fatalities.
This will be the second RCUT in KYTC District 2, with the first beginning construction in Henderson County along the U.S. 41 strip on March 6.
Rather than disrupting or slowing traffic flow along the primary route, as would happen with a traffic signal, RCUTs are specifically designed to allow vehicles on that roadway to continue unimpeded. Vehicles exiting Wright’s Landing and Hawes Boulevard onto U.S. 60, however, will follow a different traffic pattern. Instead of going straight across the highway, which forces drivers to cross four lanes of oncoming traffic at a 90-degree angle or crossing two lanes to make a left turn, all drivers will now turn right. Vehicles will then utilize a newly constructed U-turn lane to make a left turn and merge with traffic on U.S. 60.
RCUTs are being incorporated more often in highway projects today to promote a freer and safer traffic flow. A review of a RCUT installed by KYTC on U.S. 68 in Trigg County recently showed a 64.5% decrease in total crashes since the RCUT was completed and a 71% decrease in injuries – exceeding benefits found in a national study, which showed RCUTs reduced crashes by 54% on average.
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