2019 National Work Zone Awareness Week

Starting Monday, April 8, and running to Friday, April 12, new blogs will be posted each day as part of our National Work Zone Awareness Week series. Highway workers, contractors and law enforcement will share stories highlighting why work zone safety is so important.
Thanks for reading and sharing these blogs to help improve safety in work zone.

Also, Go Orange is on Thursday, April 11, so please wear orange to show your support for everyone who works along the roadways. Orange lights will also be on all week at the following locations:



A view of City Hall in Topeka from last year.

• KDOT District offices in Topeka, Salina, Norton, Chanute, Hutchinson, and Garden City, as well as several KDOT Area offices
• Governor’s Mansion in Topeka
• Amelia Earhart Memorial Bridge in Atchison
• Visitor’s Center in the Capitol
• Eisenhower State Office Building in Topeka
• Front of the Topeka City Hall building
• Travel Information Center on I-70 near Goodland
  Also, more than 50 billboards across the state will feature KDOT highway workers for the first two weeks in April to help remind motorists to drive safely in work zones.

Go Orange

Gov. Brownback participates in the Go Orange effort along with work zone committee members.

On Thursday, Governor Sam Brownback signed a proclamation declaring April 7-11 Work Zone Awareness Week. Work zone safety is important all year long, but this is an effort to raise awareness to the dangers associated with highway construction work zones and to educate people on what they can do to improve safety.

We are encouraging everyone to support this effort by wearing orange.  Please send us your  "Go Orange"  photos.  You can tweet them to us by using the hashtag #goorangeks or email them to publicinfo@ksdot.org.  Check out our Flickr page here to see all the photos we've received.