University Daily Kansan, July 3, 1985
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City may help finance study of south bypass
By Shawn Aday
Staff Reporter
Bulford Watson, Lawrence city manager, recommended Monday that the city pay 30-35 percent of a $150,000 engineering study for a southern bypass around the city.
The Douglas County Commission, which proposed the bypass and asked the city to share the cost, would pay for the rest of the study.
The $16 million project would wind around southern Lawrence with a 131-mile, four-lane road from Kansas Highway 10 on the east to a proposed Kansas Turnpike interchange on the west.
Watson made his recommendation to city commissioners during a study session Monday afternoon. Two Douglas County representatives attended the meeting, Warren Rhodes, county commissioner and Frank Hempen, public works director. Gary Toebben, executive vice president of the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce, also was present.
Watson said 11 percent of the bypass would he within the city. He said the study might be useful to the city even if the present bypass plan is moved by the city because a southern bypass would be needed eventually.
Mike Amyx, Lawrence mayor, was the only city commission member who expressed doubts about the idea of a bynass.
"I still have questions," Amyx
said after the meeting. "If we address the present need to help move traffic along the 23rd street corridor, I wonder if we can work on that without building a brand-new road system.
The bypass would begin at the intersection of Kansas Highway 10 and Douglas County Road 442. It would then follow 31st Street from Haskell Avenue to Kasold Drive. It would follow Kasold Drive north to an extension of Clinton Parkway, where it would turn a mile west. It would go north to an interchange on Interstate 70. The interchange could be north of Douglas County Road 13, or south of Lecompton.
The other four commissioners, Ernest Angino, Sandra Praeger, Howard Hill and David Longhurst, agreed that the bypass would be needed sometime and that the proposal warranted the engineering study to determine the cost and appropriate route.
"There's a limit to how much you can improve 23rd Street," Angino said. "How can you add one or two more lanes unless you buy out one whole side of the street?"
Praeger said that improving and repairing overused streets a little at a time eventually might cost as much as the bypass. She also said it might be wise to proceed with the bypass now before the land was developed.
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