Highway workers keep Kansas moving

We’re wrapping up National Work Zone Awareness Week with a final video that wants you to think about the workers.

What if there weren’t highway workers patching potholes, replacing signs, fixing guard rail, mowing right of way, plowing snow throughout the winter or providing traffic control in emergency situations? These a just a few of the duties performed, sometimes day and night, by highway workers across Kansas. 

Think about these people working to improve safety on the roadways for you. Take these important work zone safety messages that have been shared this week - pay attention, slow down, follow traffic control and use extra caution – and remember them all year long.    

Click HERE for the video.       

To all of you who work alongside the highways, thank you for everything you do to construct and maintain our roadways. Your efforts are greatly appreciated. 

Close calls in work zones happen all too often

Kansas highway workers share some chilling details of close calls they have experienced in work zones in the final “In Their Boots” video series.

It doesn’t matter whether it’s a rural two-lane highway or a multi-lane urban expressway – the stories shared happen all too often while highway workers are trying to do their jobs. 

Please remember there are people in these highway work zones who want to go home to their families at night. 

Click HERE for the video.         

To all of you who work alongside the highways, thank you for everything you do to construct and maintain our roadways. Your efforts are greatly appreciated.

  

Playing an instrument while driving through a work zone?

“On the Road” is the second video in the series, “In Their Boots,” with Kansas highway workers talking about some careless and dangerous things they have seen motorists doing while driving in work zones.

Some of these activities will shock you. Unfortunately, most of these things don’t shock highway workers. But every once in a while, something will surprise them. Guess what musical instrument a highway worker saw a driver playing while driving through a work zone?

Find out what instrument it was and listen to some basic advice highway workers share on how motorists can improve safety. 

Click HERE for the video.           

To all of you who work alongside the highways, thank you for everything you do to construct and maintain our roadways. Your efforts are greatly appreciated.

What it's like to be in their boots

Today’s video blog is the first of a three-part series titled, “In Their Boots.” This video features KDOT and KTA highway workers explaining what motorists would see, hear and feel if they were in a work zone, inches from traffic.

The highway workers also share a few basic safety tips for driving through work zones.

Click HERE for the video.  

To all of you who work alongside the highways, thank you for everything you do to construct and maintain our roadways. Your efforts are greatly appreciated.     

Striving to improve work zone safety

Making improvements to traffic control and information that helps guide drivers as they travel through a work zone, reflective clothing to make highway workers more visible and other items in work zones has been an ongoing priority for KDOT the past several years. Safety is a team effort for KDOT, KTA, contractors and others who work along the roadways.

In today’s video blog, KDOT Maintenance Bureau Chief Robert Fuller joins KDOT highway workers from across the state to highlight some of these work zone safety improvements.

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To all of you who work alongside the highways, thank you for everything you do to construct and maintain our roadways. Your efforts are greatly appreciated.

Don't drive distracted in work zones

National Work Zone Awareness Week is April 17 to 21. This important safety campaign educates the public of the need for safety in work zones for both highway workers and the traveling public.

 This year, we have a video blog series that will highlight KDOT and KTA highway workers across the state every day next week. All the videos were created by KDOT’s Multimedia Services Division.

We’re starting the series early with KDOT’s new Public Service Announcement. Inattention is the top contributing circumstance of work zone crashes. The PSA shows how dangerous distracted driving can be in a work zone. It will air on TV stations across Kansas in April and May.

Click HERE to watch the work zone safety PSA.

To all of you who work alongside the highways, thank you for everything you do to construct and maintain our roadways. Your efforts are greatly appreciated.