Eight area counties receive funding for rural road projects
From News Reports
The program is a state/local partnership designed to improve safety on off-system rural roads.
Projects in the program fall into two categories: Systemic – encompassing a local roadway collector network – or Site Specific. Projects in the Systemic category are 100 percent federally funded, while Site Specific projects are 90 percent federally funded with the county covering the rest.
In all, the estimated cost of all the projects is $11 million.
KDOT received more than 30 applications for a share of the dollars.
Area projects, listed by county, included:
Comanche: Site Specific: Improve intersection geometry of Road 4 and Avenue G, $310,000, funded in FY 2023;