The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet has paid $625,000 to a highway contractor over a delay in a central Kentucky road project and agreed to pay the contractor another $850,000 if work doesn’t start by May 1.
The damage payment was required because the cabinet didn’t secure the land for the project before a deadline to start construction that was set in a contract awarded by the administration of former Governor Steve Beshear.
Asa James Swan, chief of staff at the Transportation Cabinet under Governor Matt Bevin, says it was “incredibly irresponsible” for the Beshear administration to let a project where the right-of-way wasn’t resolved.
Beshear issued a statement saying the damages resulted only because the Bevin administration refused to move the Jessamine County project.
Source: AP
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