The Kansas Department of Transportation announced in a press release that it expects to start a project the week of April 14 replacing the Crooked Creek bridge on K-58, east of Le Roy. The bridge…

For the past 45 years, Iolan Glen Cunningham has worked as an engineering technician senior — a fancy way of saying a highway materials tester — for the Kansas Department of Transportation. Most of that…

This week, Kansas Secretary of Transportation Calvin Reed kicked off KDOT’s annual Transportation Safety Conference in Wichita by emphasizing the key components of decreasing fatalities on Kansas’s streets and highways: safer drivers, safer vehicles, safer…

Next week, the Kansas Department of Transportation will be hosting an online update on the effort to close the missing link in Amtrak service through the Sunflower State.  KDOT’s Passenger Rail Service Development Plan would…

The U.S. 54 Highway rebuild is back on the table. Having been awarded $4,236,812, the City of Iola received the largest grant in the state this week through the Transportation Alternatives (TA) Program. The program…

TOPEKA – Thousands of vehicles will travel the Kansas roadways during the Labor Day weekend. Many families will head out on one last trip or getaway as the school year begins. Safe Kids Kansas, sponsored…

Beginning this week, Allen County residents can expect surveyors along 3.3 miles of U.S. Highway 169 between Carlyle and Colony. The Kansas Department of Transportation (KDOT) began a survey Monday to gather information for proposed…

Crews with the Kansas Department of Transportation (KDOT) perform maintenance on US 54 Highway Thursday morning in Gas. According to Priscilla Petersen, KDOT Public Affairs, the work includes concrete stitching. “The crews are filling cracks…

Take a book. Or a nap. There’s no way to escape travel delays heading north next week. The Kansas Department of Transportation (KDOT) expects to start resurfacing projects on U.S. 59 and U.S. 169 business…

The exit ramps at U.S. 169 and Douglas (Plummer) road interchange 2 miles north of Chanute will be closed Monday through Wednesday. The Kansas Department of Transportation will install light towers there. The north- and…