Kansas City, Kan., will be the site of one of the statewide transportation meetings held by the Kansas Department of Transportation this fall.
Eight meetings throughout the state will start with one on Sept. 24 at the Hilton Garden Inn in Kansas City, Kan. The meeting will be from 9 a.m. to noon at the Hilton Garden Inn, 520 Minnesota Ave.
Residents will have the opportunity to discuss their transportation priorities with KDOT and the Kansas Turnpike Authority.
The discussions will include highway and other modal needs, including rail, aviation, transit and bike-pedestrian.
“We are looking for common goals at the state and regional level,” said Kansas Department of Transportation Secretary Mike King. “It’s important that we get feedback from communities as well as explain how the current transportation plan, T-WORKS is going.”
The meetings will be conducted by KDOT and KTA staff.
This year for the first time there will be the chance to pre-register and express any particular transportation topic that participants would like to discuss. Pre-registration is available at www.ksdot.org or https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/PWRKL93.
KDOT also conducted a series of local consultation meetings two years ago to hear what types of projects were important to communities.
It’s important to go back to these areas and see if there have been any changes to their transportation needs,” King said. “This is a chance for those in the community to make sure their voice is heard.”
Summaries of each local consultation meeting will be posted on the KDOT website at www.ksdot.org.