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KDOT Secretary: Midpoint of IKE Program Shows Delivery but Inflation Will Reduce What Can Be Built
Summary
Kansas Department of Transportation Secretary Calvin Reed told the Senate Transportation Committee the IKE program has delivered thousands of miles of road and hundreds of bridges but faces construction-cost inflation and flat fuel-tax revenue; KDOT projects $11.5 billion in program spending and plans a February opening for the US 69 Express project.
Kansas Department of Transportation Secretary Calvin Reed told the Senate Transportation Committee that the state has reached the midpoint of the 10-year Eisenhower Legacy Transportation (IKE) program, and while KDOT has delivered substantial work, construction inflation and constrained revenue will limit the quantity of projects completed.
"We have been able to deliver meaningful progress across the state," Reed said, citing improvements to more than 9,500 highway miles and roughly 575 bridges since the program began. But he warned that inflation has outpaced revenue growth: "Prices in 2025 are about 66% higher than they were in 2021," Reed said, and the revised program spending projection is about $11,500,000,000, roughly 16% higher than the original estimate.
Reed told senators that revenues into IKE have been about 20% higher than 2020 projections, driven largely by sales tax and federal reimbursements, but motor fuel…
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