Transportation Secretary Maxwell C. Bailey released the plan Tuesday with the caution that state-funded projects listed do not match expected state fund revenues for the six-year period, which, for state projects, begins July 1, 2006, and ends June 30, 2012.

For federal-aid projects, the period begins Oct. 1, 2004 and ends Sept. 30, 2010.

The state-funded projects carry all previously enacted projects forward as “priorities of record” to manage future revenues against, wrote Bailey.

Also, some of the projects listed are funded only through their design phases, while others are listed as funded through the construction phase.

The first project scheduled for completion, according to the plan, is a bridge replacement over Dreen Creek on Ky. 126, a half-mile northwest of the junction of Ky. 672.

The 0.1-mile project is slated for funding with federal bridge replacement funds and listed to cost approximately $1.6 million.

Design work, listed as occurring now, will be followed by right-of-way acquisition and utility relocation in the 2006 fiscal year and construction a year later.

Other projects listed on the plan include:

• Replacing two bridges and approaches on Ky. 139 North over the Donaldson Creek.

The first bridge project, from milepoint 19.82 to milepoint 19.92, is scheduled to cost about $1,190,000.

The second, from milepoint 19.98 to milepoint 20.08, is listed as costing approximately $1,230,000.

Both are scheduled to be funded through federal bridge replacement funds (for roads on the federal system).

Construction of those bridges is scheduled in the 2009 fiscal year, according to the plan.

• The plan also schedules repairs and pavement grinding on Interstate 24, from milepoint 45.133 in Lyon County, through Caldwell County to milepoint 65.349 in Trigg County.

The Lyon-Caldwell portion, a length of 10.5 miles, is scheduled to cost approximately $2.1 million, while the Caldwell-Trigg portion, a distance of 9.7 miles, is expected to cost about $2 million.

Those projects, utilizing federal interstate maintenance funds, are scheduled for construction in the 2008 fiscal year.

• A project to create a new connector road from the Hopkinsville Road to Ky. 293 North is on the list, but funding is only listed for the design phase, set to occur in the 2007 fiscal year.

That design work is set to cost $900,000, to be funded through federal surface transportation funds.

• The county’s sole state-funded project on the list is a reconstruction of curves identified as substandard on Rock Springs Hill on Ky. 139 South.

The project, covering 0.6 miles, is listed for design in the 2006 fiscal year, at a cost of $400,000.

• Mentioned in an appendix to the plan as a “mega-project” is a proposed Interstate 69, envisioned as a direct link from Mexico to Canada.

The proposed interstate would travel through Caldwell County using the Western Kentucky Parkway, from its connection with I-24 to its connection with the Pennyrile Parkway.

Sections of the Western Kentucky, Pennyrile and Purchase parkways would have to be upgraded to meet interstate design standards.

Those upgrades are expected to cost $700 million or more to accomplish, state officials said.