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Kentucky Transportation Cabinet Launches New Data Website

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The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet has created a new website meant to improve access to its data.

The DataMart includes state highway traffic counts, county-by-county spending numbers, road project information, traffic fatality data and more.

It can be accessed here.

Transportation Cabinet spokesman Chuck Wolfe said the website was created in part because of a new federal highway accountability mandate. The information was previously available on the cabinet's website, but Wolfe said users had a difficult time finding it. Now, it's all available in a single place.

“You really had to know where to look on the cabinet’s website," Wolfe said. "It’s a pretty dense website. It has a lot of information on there and it’s not easy to navigate, in my humble opinion.”

Some of the graphics are difficult to read or take some time to load—Wolfe noted that the website is still evolving and may have bugs. He urged people to report issues and offer feedback on the portal.“The information can be very local, it can be statewide," Wolfe said. "Also it’s a work in progress, the website is evolving."

But, he said the general idea is to give people easier access to information about Kentucky's highway work.

Copyright 2014 89.3 WFPL News Louisville

Joseph Lord is a Louisville native who was raised in Jeffersontown. He attended Western Kentucky University before covering public safety and later city government for The Anniston (Ala.) Star. He's also covered education for The Tribune and Evening News in southern Indiana and music and pop culture for Velocity, The Courier-Journal's weekly entertainment magazine.
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