Kansas Governor Laura Kelly and state transportation secretary Calvin Reed have announced seven highway projects going to construction in the third round of the ten-year, $10 billion Eisenhower Legacy Transportation Program, known as IKE.
The list includes a project in central Kansas to add shoulders to U.S. Highway 56 in Rice County, from Lyons to the McPherson County line. The project is expected to cost around $15 million. The largest projects on the list are a $122 million project to improve the I-35-Santa Fe interchange in Johnson County and a $91 million project to expand U.S. 40 and Kansas Highway 10 in Douglas County to a four-lane freeway, with a new Kansas Turnpike interchange.
Governor Kelly said the three rounds of IKE construction projects are part of a $2 billion commitment to make roads safer, reduce congestion, create jobs and deliver more economic opportunities.
