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;
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STERLING – The state awarded the City of Sterling a more than $300,000 transportation grant this week to construct a half-mile multi-use path that will connect the east and west sides of the community on the north end of town.
The project will install the 6-foot-wide concrete path on the north side of Cleveland Avenue, running from Broadway to First Street. It will also include ADA-compatible crossings at all intersections along the route.
“This is a huge deal for our community,” said city manager Craig Crossette, who noted the path will link Sterling College and the city’s junior-senior high school, which share athletic facilities and see students traveling between them regularly.
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Kansas Statehouse in Topeka
NEWTON Kansas plans to invest the nearly $85 million the state received in federal coronavirus relief funding for infrastructure programs and services in every county, leaving no part of the state behind, Gov. Laura Kelly said Thursday.
The governor was joined by Transportation Secretary Julie Lorenz at a street paving project in Newton to announce plans for the statewide distribution of the federal COVID-19 relief money.
In deciding how to best invest the money it received, the state also decided on an approach that would invest the maximum amount of dollars into the economy in the least amount of time. It also is targeting additional economic opportunities in communities that have been hardest hit during the pandemic, Kelly said.
Kansas plans to invest the nearly $85 million the state received in federal coronavirus relief funding for infrastructure programs and services in every county, leaving no part of the state behind, Go