FLORENCE, Ky. — As part of our "Let's Talk" series this week, we visited Florence to hear about the things residents feel deserve attention. During the stop, something we heard time and again was traffic concerns.

We set our focus on a stretch of U.S. 42 in Florence, where city, county and state officials are working on solutions to the bumper-to-bumper backups.

"They need to address the roads before they build anything else," Sarah Sleet of Union said. "We need to improve our roads. And addressing traffic lights is a big issue with that."

Real-time adaptation traffic lights planned to minimize backups

The project entails installing new smart signals, or adaptive traffic signal controls, throughout a specific several-mile stretch of U.S. 42, starting at Ewing Boulevard and up past Plea

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