Buy Tires on Sale for Kentucky: But Not Until You've Read This Guide!

• Go Kentucky traffic - official website
• WKYT live traffic - official website
• WHAS 11 traffic - official website
• WAVE 3 traffic - official website

Urban, southern and western areas

Rural and northern areas of the state

• Speed limits:, Generally the maximum speed limit is 65 mph although there are some sections of rural interstates where the limit is 70 mph.
• Seatbelts: The driver and all passengers over the age of 8 must use a seatbelt and all younger children must be in an appropriate child car seat.
• Learning to drive: You can obtain a drivers permit to learn to drive at just 14 years old in South Dakota!
• Cellphones: You can use your cell phone hands-free, but texting or using your phone with your hands is against the law.
• Drink driving: The Bluegrass State is strict on drunk driving with suspensions of 30-120 days, and the use of ignition interlocks, after your first offense.

• Tinted windshields are only allowed over the AS-1 line on the window and no reflective tint is allowed.
• Tinted front side windows must let in at least 35% of light and must be less than 25% reflective.
• Tinted back and back side windows must let in at least 18% of light and must be less than 35% reflective.

• I-24 is a fairly short north-south highway that runs through a small section of the western part of the state, providing access to Fort Campbell, Calvert City, and Paducah. This highway goes on to Chattanooga, Tennessee to the south and near Marion, Illinois, to the north.
• I-64 is a major east-west highway that goes through the Louisville metropolitan area and provides access to many of the city's attractions, including Churchill Downs, the Kentucky Exposition Center, and Louisville International Airport. This highway also passes through Frankfort before crossing into West Virginia.
• I-65 is a major north-south highway that runs through central Kentucky and provides access to Louisville, Elizabethtown, and Bowling Green. This highway goes on to Nashville, Tennessee to the south and Indianapolis, Indiana to the north and connects Chicago, IL to Mobile, AL.
• I-69 is a disjointed north-south highway, with 10 disconnected sections, one of which runs through western Kentucky. The section in the state begins in Fulton at the Tennessee state line, and ends 148 miles away in Henderson, just south of the Indiana state line. It passes through Calvert City, Madisonville, Mayfield, and Benton on its route through the state.
• I-71 is a major north-south highway that begins in Louisville and follows the Indiana state line northeast before crossing over in Cincinnati and then going on to Cleveland, OH. In Kentucky, it passes through Buckner, Florence, and Covington.
• I-75 is a major north-south highway that runs through central Kentucky and provides access to Covington, Florence, Georgetown, and Lexington. To the north, this highway also goes through Cincinnati, OH on its way to the Canadian border in Michigan, and to the south passes through Tenessee on its way to Tampa, FL.

Toll roads

• Abraham Lincoln Bridge, which goes from Louisville to Jeffersonville Indiana as the I-65 North. Tolls for this bridge are from $2.10 to $4.20.
• John F. Kennedy Memorial Bridge which carries the I-65 South is just next to the Abraham Lincoln Bridge and has the same toll fees.
• Lewis and Clark Bridge which carries the I-265 goes from Green Spring, KY to Utica, Indiana and has the same toll fees as the other two bridges.