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TABLE OF CONTENTS lPart A lPart D Letter from Secretary E. Dean Carlson Project Listings Projects Planned in FY 2001-2009................................. D-1 Projects Completed in FY 2000 .................................... D-56 lPart B Projects Under Construction as of October 31, 2000 ............................................... D-74 Who We Are, What We Do uMap of 2001-2009 CTP Leaders in KDOT ............................................................... B-1 Explanation of Changes to/from Map......................... D-95 A Look at the CTP ............................................................. B-4 uMap of CTP as per HB 2071 Initiatives to Assist Public, Improve Safety .................B-15 l l Part E Part C Financial Report Project Selection Criteria Substantial Maintenance.................................................... C-1 Major Modification ............................................................. C-5 lPart F Priority Bridge....................................................................C-12 System Enhancement .......................................................C-13 Reference Information KDOT Web Site ................................................................. F-1 Glossary of Common KDOT Terms .............................. F-1 County Abbreviations ........................................................ F-4 A Letter From... Secretary E. Dean Carlson The Kansas Department of Transportation’s primary focus u the CTP-created Airport Assistance program over the last year has been implementing the Comprehensive has funded dozens of improvements at our Transportation Program (CTP) that was passed by the 1999 state’s general aviation airports; legislature. This historic ten-year program is a crucial link u the Local Partnership Grade Separation between the transportation needs of Kansans in the 20th century program is giving communities another avenue and their transportation needs in the 21st century. to improve safety at more of our state’s This past year saw the selection of the 29 System railroad-highway crossings; Enhancement projects that will substantially improve safety, u and cities and counties have more dollars to relieve congestion, improve access, enhance economic use for their own local projects, thanks to the development in their locations, and have a beneficial impact on increases in the Special City County Highway the whole State Highway System. Fund payments authorized by the CTP. The System Enhancement project selection process may have been in the spotlight, but it was just one of the steps of KDOT is using the funding provided by the CTP to make progress that KDOT has taken in the past year. Here are just a the transportation infrastructure of Kansas safer, more efficient, few examples: and more durable. The agency has managed to do this in the A-1 face of reductions in the sales tax demand transfer in both FY 2000 (approximately $27 million) and FY 2001 (approximately $40 million). At the same time, KDOT has seen increased cost estimates because of higher bids, increased project scopes, and inflation. The margin between success and failure is getting thinner. This is why this coming year is a crucial one in the life of the Comprehensive Transportation Program. While KDOT will make every effort to control operating costs, erosion of funding would severely impact KDOT’s ability to complete all of the projects currently included in the Comprehensive Trans- portation Program. It is too early to determine the ones that could be affected, but it is not too early to say that any project eliminated will have a debilitating effect on the Kansans looking forward to that project’s completion. I look forward to working with the Governor and all legislators to make sure that we stay on the path of Continued Transportation Progress that is embodied in the Comprehensive Transportation Program. Sincerely, E. Dean Carlson Secretary of Transportation A-2 WHO WE ARE ... The Secretary of Transportation is responsible for u Bob Haley, coordinating the planning, development, and operation of the Director of Administration various modes and systems of transportation within the state. u Mike Armour, KDOT is divided into six geographical transportation districts Director of Aviation throughout the state and has its headquarters in Topeka. The u G. David Comstock, Headquarters offices are Director of Engineering and Design divided into divisions, bureaus, e depend on u Steve Woolington, and offices. Each division W Director of Operations oversees various bureaus/ our employees u Terry Heidner, offices. The Division of and business Director of Planning and Development Operations also oversees the partners to get district offices. All Division Directors can be reached at (785) 296-3566. the job done. The mailing address is KDOT, 915 Harrison, Leaders in KDOT Topeka, KS, 66612-1568. Headquarters u E. Dean Carlson, KDOT’s experienced workforce has a diverse background. Secretary of Transportation From civil engineers to equipment operators to office u Warren Sick, assistants to application programmers to engineering Assistant Secretary/State Transportation Engineer technicians, Department employees strive to provide the u Nancy Bogina, many quality services necessary for a safe and efficient Special Assistant/Director of Public Affairs transportation system in Kansas. B-1 Norton Topeka Salina Garden City Hutchinson Chanute The six KDOT Districts throughout Kansas are each headed throughout that District. Each District is further divided into by its own District (Chief) Engineer. District Engineers are several area offices that are headed by Area Engineers. Within delegated the responsibility and authority to supervise each Area are Subarea offices that primarily perform various administration, construction, maintenance, and materials roadway maintenance activities including snow/ice removal. B-2 B-3 What we do ... KDOT works to achieve its goal of providing a statewide transportation system to meet the needs of Kansas each and COMPONENTS OF THE CTP every day in many different ways. Some of the agency’s sState Highway Program responsibilities are to: sLocal Transportation Program udetermine project scope, design, and let to construction sOther Modal Programs between 450 to 600 state and local improvement projects a year; uidentify and study future highway traffic needs through data collection and evaluations across the state; uperform necessary road and bridge maintenance activities; STATE HIGHWAY PROGRAM uadminister federal funding, contract compliance, and inspection of material and labor; Highways - KDOT is responsible for maintaining the State udevelop innovative materials through extensive research Highway System. Kansas has the fourth largest number of public to lengthen the life span of roadways; road miles of any state in the nation. The majority of the state’s uprovide resources to assist aviation, public transit, local public roads are not maintained by KDOT. Only about 9,600 partership, and rail crossing and service improvement activities. miles, or 7 percent of the total number of public road miles, Our employees A LOOK AT THE COMPREHENSIVE are included in the State High- way System. However, the State are our most TRANSPORTATION PROGRAM Highway System and its 823 valuable miles of City Connecting Links The following information describes how the (city streets which connect rural resource. Comprehensive Transportation Program (CTP) is designed and portions of the State Highway some of the programs, administrative issues, and federal System) carry 52 percent of the state’s total travel. The chart on transportation issues that involve the department. page B-5 outlines highway jurisdictional responsibilities and fund B-4 sources for highway improvements. Substantial Maintenance The CTP requires the Department to spend a minimum of The Substantial Maintenance program provides funding to $3 million per county on highway construction improvements preserve the “as-built” condition of Kansas highways to the best over the life of the program. The State Highway Program extent possible. Funds are set aside each year for pavement portion is divided into four main project categories: Major resurfacing programs; bridge and culvert repairs and bridge Modification, Priority Bridge, Substantial Maintenance, and painting; and safety, signing, lighting, pavement markings, System Enhancement. For more details about the projects and and emergency work. These projects are selected one project selection, turn to Parts C and D. (Please note that all year at a time. Major Modification and Priority Bridge projects for the CTP are listed as part of the Legislative record in the debate over HB Major Modification 2071. KDOT therefore considers these projects to be a commit- Major Modification projects are designed to preserve and ment to the people of Kansas.) improve the service and safety of the existing highway system. A description of each category follows. Examples of work in this category are reconstruction and rehabilitation of pavement, widening traffic lanes, adding or HIGHWAY JURISDICTION AND RESOURCES Road Category Jurisdictional Authority Fund Sources *Includes City Connecting State Highway System sState Highway Fund Links. 10,385 miles* KDOT sFederal funds **The remaining 52% of total travel sLocal funds 5% of total travel is on the Non-state highway system sSpecial City and County 238-mile 123,440 miles Cities and Highway Fund Kansas 43% of total travel** Counties sLocal Funds Turnpike. sState allocated
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