GARNETT — A Kansas Department of Transportation field survey team will start work next week along eight miles of U.S. 169 in Anderson County between Welda and the U.S.\169/U.S. 59 junction south of Garnett. The agency plans to rebuild U.S. 169 as part of the T-Works highway improvements program, KDOT’s Priscilla Petersen said. Plans call for widening the highway, adding shoulders and leveling the hilly parts of the road. The rebuilt highway will likely follow its present alignment, she said. That part of the highway includes the longest curve in the state. The survey will take about four months. A member of the survey crew will contact landowners or tenants for permission to enter any private property, as needed. The reconstruction project is tentatively scheduled to begin in 2017, with the new road to be opened in 2018, Petersen said. The estimated cost of construction is $17 million.
Thursday, Oct. 12, 2 p.m.
