Kansas News Updates

A massive Kansas Turnpike Authority project will update its 1950s tolling system by replacing 21 toll plazas with overhead gantry cameras and transponder sensors.

Two Kansas community colleges are partnering to increase CDL training to alleviate a driver shortage in a state that needs truck transportation for its agriculture-related industries.

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg on Feb. 27 hailed the massive Panasonic battery plant planned for De Soto, Kan., as part of a wave of industrial production centered on electric vehicles that is spurring an “American renaissance” in manufacturing.

Kansas officials announced $40.5 million in funding to overhaul 33 local and off-system bridge projects across the state.

Truckers driving through the U.S. Route 83 rural freight corridor in Kansas will benefit from a $6.67 million federal grant to help fund a long fiber optic network to deliver real-time traffic, weather and other useful information in that remote agricultural stretch.

Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly announced $23 million has been awarded to support road improvement projects in 36 cities across the state.

A list of six highway projects announced this week by Gov. Laura Kelly includes three projects to repair and upgrade U.S. 50 in the Harvey County area.

Kansas officials announced May 26 that $42 million has been invested for transportation projects through the Cost Share Program.

North Dakota has the best state-owned road system in the country, according to Reason Foundation’s recently released Annual Highway Report.

The Kansas Department of Transportation has updated KanDrive, its traveler information website that includes roadway and traffic condition details for truckers and passenger vehicle drivers.