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Major Project Aims to Improve Travel in Wichita By Cindy Riley
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Table of Contents ..............4 Attachments Section ............ .................................... 35-37 Recycling Section ......51-67 Business Calendar ............76 Truck & Trailer Section ........ ....................................77-85 Auction Section ..........89-95 Advertisers Index ............94
In an effort to reduce congestion, increase capacity and improve travel in east Wichita, the Kansas Department of Transportation (KDOT), Kansas Turnpike Authority (KTA) and the city of Wichita have partnered to provide improvements at the Webb Road intersection and the Greenwich to K-96 corridor. The more than $300 million East Kellogg expansion includes new intersection designs at Webb and Greenwich and better access to the turnpike. “Projects like this reconstruction of an expressway into a freeway with multiple interchanges is a huge undertaking,” said Don Snyder, KDOT Wichita Metro engineer. “It takes many years of planning, designing, gathering public feedback, acquiring right-of-way, moving and improving utilities, locating adequate funding and many other steps before construction can begin. Luckily, we have great partners in the city of Wichita and the Kansas Turnpike Authority. Without them, KDOT would have
In an effort to reduce congestion, increase capacity and improve travel in east Wichita, the Kansas Department of Transportation (KDOT), Kansas Turnpike Authority (KTA) and the city of Wichita have partnered to provide improvements at the Webb Road intersection and the Greenwich to K-96 corridor.
a difficult time moving these projects forward, because we’re working on a major interchange replacement on the other side of Wichita. We are also wrangling a number of other large infrastructure projects on an aging interstate and local highway system.” Gary Janzen, city engineer of the city of Wichita, said a great
deal of thought and effort went into mapping out construction. “The projects were originally planned as two separate projects to improve Kellogg to a freeway one mile at a time,” he said. “But because of changes to the design of the first project that impacted direct access to the KTA, the second, which re-establishes those direct
connections, was expedited and managed by the KTA, due to the high level of coordination required with their infrastructure. “The project scope includes city, state and the KTA infrastructure, so the teaming of the three agencies made sense, in order to ensure proper coordination during design see KELLOGG page 38
MCORE Renovates Key Streets By Eric Olson CEG CORRESPONDENT
A major multi-street rebuilding effort is advancing around one of the nation’s top universities — a project meticulously planned so as not to disrupt the flow of foot, bike and vehicle traffic around the busy and lively campus. The twin cities of Champaign-Urbana, home to the University of Illinois, have partnered with the university and the local mass transit district to renovate several key streets in and around the campus.
The improvement effort, known as the Multimodal Corridor Enhancement Project, or MCORE, is an estimated $47.6 million contract spread over five separate projects. Part of the cost of MCORE is being paid by a $15.7 million federal Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery (TIGER) grant. “The Champaign-Urbana MTD [Mass Transit District] took the lead in submitting the grants to get the TIGER funds,” said Dave Clark, Champaign City engineer. “The way federal transportation dollars work is they require a see UNIVERSITY page 42
Project 3 will, in part, replace the brick with a thick, heavy-duty concrete pavement to handle busses.