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Committee Hears Bill To Name Highways, Bridge as POW‑MIA Memorials
Summary
A Transportation Committee hearing on House Bill 2,124 reviewed commemorative namings: a Corporal Monty Wayne Forest Memorial Highway segment on U.S. 160, two U.S. 77 segments and a K‑82 bridge to be designated POW‑MIA memorials; signs would be installed only after the Kansas Department of Transportation receives required payments.
House Bill 2,124, which would assign commemorative names to two highway segments and one bridge, received proponent testimony at a Transportation Committee hearing.
The bill would: designate a segment of U.S. Highway 160 from the eastern city limits of Aragonia east to its junction with Eden Road as the Corporal Monty Wayne Forest Memorial Highway; designate portions of U.S. Highway 77 — including the stretch from its junction with Interstate 70 North in Gary County to the western junction with U.S. Highway 24 in Riley County and a separate northbound segment from the eastern junction with U.S. 24 to the junction with K‑16 —…
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