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KDOT secretary says IKE program is on track but inflation and federal uncertainty will reduce what can be delivered
Summary
Secretary Calvin Reid told the House Committee on Transportation that Kansas’s 10-year Eisenhower (IKE) program has delivered major work but faces a constrained second half because construction costs are ~66% higher than 2021 and federal funding is uncertain when IIJA expires in September.
Secretary Calvin Reid gave the House Committee on Transportation a midpoint progress report on the Eisenhower (IKE) transportation program, saying the agency has delivered work statewide but expects to deliver fewer projects in the program’s second half because of rising construction costs and federal funding uncertainty.
Reid, who identified himself as "Calvin Reid, secretary of transportation," told the committee that highway fatalities remain a priority. "Highway fatalities, I think, are unacceptable," he said, reporting a slight uptick in 2025 to 361 fatalities and noting nearly half of those occur on locally owned roads.
Reid said revenues into the IKE program are about 20% higher than projected in 2020, driven by sales tax and federal…
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