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Big changes are coming to U.S. 69 Highway as construction begins on 69Express. The project, which will cost $572 million, will convert the median into two additional “express lanes” to help ease congestion.
Although there’s been no official groundbreaking, construction began this week on adding express lanes to U.S. 69 Highway in Overland Park.
The Kansas Department of Transportation (KDOT) has begun closing lanes of traffic along U.S. 69 Highway to make way for the construction of new toll lanes in Overland Park.
The Kansas Department of Transportation (KDOT) selected US69 Express Constructors to build the state’s first express toll lane on U.S. 69 Highway in Overland Park.
US69 Express Constructors has been selected by the Kansas Department of Transportation to build the state’s first express lanes, 69Express.
Two initial bids were substantially higher than the Kansas Department of Transportation budgeted for the job.
The Kansas Department of Transportation (KDOT) is pumping the brakes on plans to create express toll lanes on U.S. 69 Highway.
Plans to widen U.S. 69 from four lanes to six are now on hold after two bids exceeded cost estimates for the highway project.
The two qualified proposals exceeded KDOT’s most recent project estimate of $430 million.
Kansas road crews expect to break ground on a major project to create express toll lanes on U.S. 69 Highway later this fall. The 69Express project will create the first single lane toll road in Kansas.
The Kansas Department of Transportation announced Monday that it will build 11 proposed noise walls along U.S. 69 Highway between 119th Street and 151st Street in Overland Park, Kansas.
