January approved projects announced

The first in a series of potential improvements on U.S. 83 in southwest Kansas was approved in January’s bid letting. The $22.3 million T-WORKS expansion project in Haskell County calls for rebuilding six miles of U.S. 83, replacing the junction of U.S. 83/U.S. 160/K-144 with an interchange and adding a set of passing lanes.

The project addresses one of many segments of a 70-mile corridor from Sublette to Scott City that were identified during a needs study that KDOT began in 2007, following a series of local consultation meetings in fall 2006.

To see all of the approved projects in the January 2016 letting, click here.