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The state and national highways are prominently marked in the Kentucky Road Map. The well maintained roads join all the major cities of Kentucky. The northern and the southern part of Kentucky are connected by the Interstate Highways of 65, 71 and 75. The Interstate Highways of 24 and 64 make the eastern end of Kentucky easily accessible to the western end of the state. Proper roadways of Kentucky were constructed during the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century, when the indigenous inhabitants demanded construction of good roads. The State Highway Commission was founded in the year of 1912 that helped in building roads. The condition of roads had developed by 1920. Kentucky had an estimated 127,567 kilometer of roads during the year of 2000. The state had registered 1,139,543 numbers of trucks, 1,673,926 numbers of automobiles and 12,934 numbers of public buses in the year of 2000. The Kentucky Department of Transportation maintains the conditions of old roads and builds new roads for better transportation. The department of Kentucky Traffic Information provides facts and figures on the various congested areas, construction zones and traffic conditions of the state. The Kentucky Maps highlights the cities that are accessible by the good roads of the state.
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