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Tonganoxie staff seek Fourteenth Street traffic study amid south-corridor growth
Summary
City staff presented a proposal to contract BG Consultants for a Fourteenth Street traffic study to inform future infrastructure and KDOT coordination; council discussion focused on corridor history, KDOT coordination and potential grant eligibility.
City staff on Aug. 4 asked the Tonganoxie City Council to consider a traffic study proposal for Fourteenth Street, a corridor the city has prioritized in capital improvement planning as growth shifts to the south part of town. Porter introduced the agenda item and said the Fourteenth Street project has been discussed during the city's capital improvement planning process for several years. Porter said the intersection at Fourteenth Street and Highway 24/2440 has been contemplated since a corridor access management agreement was negotiated with the Kansas Department of Transportation, and that staff have recently engaged KDOT regional engineers to coordinate project planning. "We've been talking about it in our CMIP process for, oh, at least the last 5 or 6 years in earnest," Porter said. "A lot of the growth is moving into that south corridor." He said staff approached KDOT about the project and that KDOT "manages a grant program" that could be relevant to communities in corridor-access agreements. Councilmember Partridge asked practical questions about contractor plan access and visibility; staff and BG Consultants said they will post study documents on the city's plan-room/plan-hosting service to ensure broad contractor and consultant visibility. Porter said the city's coordination with KDOT includes predevelopment meetings with Bonner Springs regional staff and that staff will continue outreach as the study and design work progress. The transcript for this agenda item ends during staff remarks; no formal motion or vote on the Fourteenth Street traffic study proposal appears in the provided portion of the record. Less critical details: Porter referenced a corridor access management agreement involving the city and an adjacent municipality and said KDOT staff had been consulted about the project's potential interactions with state-managed corridors. Staff characterized the item as part of an ongoing capital planning effort and as a step toward engaging KDOT and identifying funding avenues.
