{{Short description|Street located in downtown Louisville, Kentucky}} {{Use American English|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox street |name=Muhammad Ali Boulevard |map= |image=Muhammad Ali Boulevard.jpg |length_mi=5.0 |length_ref=<ref name=KYTC-map-Louisville /> |direction_a=East |terminus_a={{Jct|state=KY|KY|864|name1=East Chestnut Street}} |junction={{plainlist|1= *{{Jct|state=KY|I|65}} *{{Jct|state=KY|I|264}} }} |direction_b=West |terminus_b=Southwestern Parkway }}
'''Muhammad Ali Boulevard''' is a street located in downtown Louisville, Kentucky. The street was renamed in 1978 after Muhammad Ali, a Louisville native with a highly successful Olympic and professional boxing career. Ali was three time world heavyweight champion.<ref name=push-to-rename>{{cite news |last=Adams |first=Lauren |date=June 8, 2016 |title=Daughter remembers father's push to have street renamed Muhammad Ali Blvd. |url=https://www.wlky.com/article/daughter-remembers-father-s-push-to-have-street-renamed-muhammad-ali-blvd/3767744 |location=Louisville |access-date=March 29, 2020 }}</ref><ref name=piece-of-history>{{cite news |date=June 5, 2016 |title=Louisville woman holds on to piece of Muhammad Ali history |url=https://www.wdrb.com/news/louisville-woman-holds-on-to-piece-of-muhammad-ali-history/article_58375dae-fb7d-56e8-b96b-3391d58772ec.html |location=Louisville |access-date=March 29, 2020 }}</ref> The one-way boulevard is approximately {{convert|5|mi|km|spell=in}} long and follows an east-to-west path carrying westbound traffic from East Chestnut Street (Kentucky Route 864) to the Southwestern Parkway in west Louisville.<ref name=KYTC-map-Louisville>{{cite map |author = Division of Planning |date=January 2011 |title = State Primary Road System: Louisville, Jefferson County |scale = |location = Frankfort |publisher = Kentucky Transportation Cabinet |url = http://transportation.ky.gov/Planning/SPRS%20Maps/Louisville_city.pdf |page = 1 |access-date = March 7, 2017 }}</ref>
The street is also formerly and less commonly known as '''Walnut Street''' east of 28th Street, including the entire downtown section, and '''Michigan Drive''' west of 28th Street. These names correspond to the old names of the street prior to its renaming in 1978.<ref name=piece-of-history />
The street carries one-way westbound traffic only across its entire length. Muhammad Ali Boulevard is a couplet with parallel and eastbound Chestnut Street and River Park Drive. However, through downtown, Liberty Street is a closer opposite-direction one-way street, and parts of Madison and Vermont Streets provide intermediate two-way parallel traffic flow over some parts of the route.
==Major intersections== {{KYinttop|county=Jefferson|location=Louisville|length_ref=}} {{KYint |mile= |road={{jct|state=KY|road|Southwestern Parkway}} |notes=Western terminua }} {{KYint |mile= |type=incomplete |road={{Jct|state=KY|I|264|road|South 33rd Street|dir2=south}}<!-- no control cities signed --> |notes=Eastbound exit; westbound entry; I-264 exit 2; northern terminus of South 33rd Street, which leads to I-264 east }} {{KYint |mile= |road={{jct|state=KY|road|South 22nd Street|name1=US 31W south / US 60 west / US 150 east}}<!-- Since the U.S. Highways are not signed, they are coded this way; no control cities signed. --> |notes=Southbound-only South 22nd Street and northbound-only Dr. W.J. Hodge Street on one-way pair |nspan=2 }} {{KYint |mile= |road={{jct|state=KY|road|Dr. W.J. Hodge Street|name1=US 31W north / US 60 east / US 150 west}}<!-- Since the U.S. Highways are not signed, they are coded this way; no control cities signed. --> |notes=none }} {{KYint |mile= |road={{jct|state=KY|road|South Third Street|name1=KY 1020 south}}<!-- Since the Kentucky state highway is not signed, it is coded this way; no control cities signed. --> |notes=Southbound-only South Third Street and northbound-only South Second Street on one-way pair |nspan=2 }} {{KYint |mile= |road={{jct|state=KY|road|South Second Street|name1=KY 1020 north}}<!-- Since the Kentucky state highway is not signed, it is coded this way; no control cities signed. --> |notes=none }} {{KYint |mile= |type=incomplete |road={{jct|state=KY|road|South First Street|to2=y|I|65|dir2=south}} |notes=No access to northbound South First Street from Muhammad Ali Boulevard }} {{KYint |mile= |road={{jct|state=KY|road|South Floyd Street|to2=y|I|65|dir2=north}} }} {{KYint |mile= |type=incomplete |road={{Jct|state=KY|I|65|dir1=north|to2=y|I|64|I|71}} |notes=Northbound entrance and exit only; I-65 exit 135C }} {{KYint |mile= |road={{jct|state=KY|road|South Preston Street|name1=KY 61 south}}<!-- Since the Kentucky state highway is not signed, it is coded this way; no control cities signed. --> |notes=Southbound-only South Preston Street and northbound-only South Jackson Street on one-way pair |nspan=2 }} {{KYint |mile= |road={{jct|state=KY|road|South Jackson Street|name1=KY 61 north}}<!-- Since the Kentucky state highway is not signed, it is coded this way; no control cities signed. --> |notes=none }} {{KYint |mile= |road={{jct|state=KY|road|East Chestnut Street|name1=KY 864}}<!-- Since the Kentucky state highway is not signed, it is coded this way; no control cities signed. --> |notes=Eastern terminus }} {{Jctbtm|keys=incomplete}}
==See also== *List of roads in Louisville, Kentucky
==References== {{reflist}}
{{Muhammad Ali}}
Category:Streets in Louisville, Kentucky Category:1978 establishments in Kentucky Category:Memorials to Muhammad Ali