PIKEVILLE, Ky. (WYMT) - The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet hosted a public meeting Thursday, inviting homeowners, business owners, and community members in Pikeville to see the plans for the new Town Mountain Road.

The project, creating a new road to US 119 that will bypass the current Town Mountain Road, plans to “improve roadway geometrics, mitigate hazardous rockfalls, increase capacity, and provide a more direct/alternate route.”

“When we have a project that’s really in the early planning stages like this one here, we really just need the public’s help,” said PIO Shantana Woodward.

The open house-style event, hosted at The Troubadour, provided maps and information to the public, showing the plans and purpose behind new road. Officials say they wanted to make sure the information on

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