Transformation was the word of the day, as some of Eastern Kentucky's state senators began a tour through the region.

The group, which included Senate President Robert Stivers and Senator Brandon Storm, kicked things off in London this morning before moving farther east into Hazard and Whitesburg.

The group says the General Assembly is new.

Infrastructure funding could help Eastern Kentucky grow.

Synergy in the mountains is kind of a term that I've coined here lately because some of the projects you're going to see we're going to talk about just briefly.

These aren't just going to impact London.

Laurel County, our neighbors in Knox and Whitley, but they're going to impact people in eastern Kentucky.

One of the checks we'll talk about here in a moment is going to help to widen Hal Rogers Parkway from London all the way to Hazard.

We're also going to be working on projects to widen and four lane from London all the way to Corbin down to malfunctioned Junction, as some people call it.

We want to we want to change that dynamic.

We want to make it a safe road.

We want to make sure that our neighbors and our friends and our communities are are thriving.

How does Corbin work with blind in London?

Work with Manchester, Manchester, with Hazard, Bell County and Panvel and Middlesbrough coming back this direction because we have a region now that has a lot of offerings, but it's in a region not in one specific spot.

So we've got a really good group that are working on this.

Senator Brandon Storm also announced $1 million in funding to expand London's fairgrounds.