page_title: Kentucky Route 9
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Kentucky Route 9 / History
caption_attribution_description: English: AA Highway/KY 10 in en:Greenup County, Kentucky.
context_page_description: Kentucky Route 9 is a 116.285-mile-long state highway maintained by the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet in the U.S. Commonwealth of Kentucky. The highway extends from Grayson to Newport, roughly paralleling the Ohio River between Vanceburg and Newport.
  Most of its path, from Grayson to the Interstate 275 loop in Wilder, is also known as the AA Highway. KY 10 forms a branch of the AA Highway between Vanceburg and the Jesse Stuart Memorial Bridge in Grays Branch, near Greenup.
context_section_description: The AA Highway was envisioned as a modern highway from Alexandria to Ashland.
  Construction began in 1985 on the first segment of the AA Highway. Estimated to cost $266 million to complete, it was designed primarily as a two-lane controlled-access facility. The first phase included the construction of 86 miles (138 km) of the AA Highway from the junction of Interstate 275 and Licking Pike (existing KY 9) in Campbell County east to Vanceburg. The first phase also included the design of two twenty-five mile-long spurs running east from Vanceburg, one ending at US 23 near Lloyd and the Jesse Stuart Memorial Bridge, the other ending near Interstate 64 in Grayson.
  When construction began, the costs for the first phase had risen to $292.7 million; the state had sold $300 million in bonds to pay for it. Segments of the highway, from Clarksburg just west of Vanceburg to Tollesboro was routed on an earlier relocated alignment of KY 10.
  It officially opened in 1995, however, it was not formally dedicated until 2003.
caption: AA Highway/KY 10 in Greenup County, Kentucky
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