as it carries traffic from Henry County to the east end of Louisville, KY. Interstate 71 exit 28 routes to KY 146 in Buckner.

Within the Anchorage city limits, the route is known as Ridge Road east of its westernmost rail crossing in Anchorage, and runs coterminously with Park Road to the west of that crossing.

[2] The route runs coterminously with Kentucky Route 393 for a 0.22-mile-long (0.35 km) stretch in Buckner; it is known as Jefferson Street for approximately 1.5 miles (2.4 km) within the city limits of La Grange, and as West Cross Main within the city limits of New Castle until its eastern terminus.

Improvement of the route in Henry County has been a contentious topic since the early 2000s; lobbying efforts had been underway for years when the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet funded a $13.86 million improvement plan in 2016 to address the outsized frequency of car accidents on the route, which one local official claimed to be almost three times as common on the road than on other main routes in Henry County.

[3] In 2022, a contract was awarded to realign, widen, and improve one of the most dangerous stretches of the roadway.