Editing Interstate 71 (section)

===Kentucky===
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[[File:End of Interstate 71.jpg|thumb|right|Southern end of I-71 in Downtown Louisville, Kentucky]]
[[File:I-71 (Southbound) between Cincinnati and Louisville.jpg|thumb|right|I-71 in Carroll County, Kentucky]]
[[File:I-71 I-75 Cincinnati.jpg|thumb|I-71 (and I-75) heading northbound into Cincinnati, Ohio, from Kentucky]]
In [[Kentucky]], I-71 begins east of [[Downtown Louisville]] at the [[Kennedy Interchange]], where it meets I-64 and I-65. This interchange is sometimes called the "[[Spaghetti Junction]]". From Louisville, it roughly follows the [[Ohio River]] in a diagonal path toward Northern Kentucky. Between Louisville and Cincinnati, I-71 is largely a four-lane highway, except for the approach to [[Kentucky Speedway]] in [[Sparta, Kentucky|Sparta]] in which it runs three lanes each way for about {{Convert|2|mi|km|spell=in}}.

Near the town of [[Carrollton, Kentucky|Carrollton]], there are signs marking the location of a [[Carrollton bus collision|tragic accident that occurred on May 14, 1988]], when a drunk driver was driving north in the southbound lanes and struck a church bus full of children and teenagers, causing the bus's fuel tank to ignite into flames and killing 27&nbsp;people on board. It is one of the worst bus accidents in state and national history.

After having run {{convert|77|mi|km}} from Louisville, I-71 merges with [[Interstate 75 in Kentucky|I-75]] near [[Walton, Kentucky|Walton]] after which it intersects [[Interstate 275 (Ohio–Indiana–Kentucky)|I-275]], the Cincinnati [[beltway]]. After passing through [[Covington, Kentucky|Covington]], the freeway crosses the [[Ohio River]] via the lower level of the [[Brent Spence Bridge]] (while the southbound direction uses the upper level) and continues into Cincinnati.