Thursday, June 30, 2011

KDOT ahead of stimulus schedule - Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal:

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According to a Thursday release from Kansas hadobligated $196.2 million in stimulusx money for construction projects by the secons week of May. That is ahead of the $121. million required by June 30. “We wanted to be sure to hit the groune running with projectsthat couldn’t have been builf in the foreseeable future without the one-timed recovery funding,” KDOT Deputy Secretargy Jerry Younger said in the release. “The Kansae projects will create jobs, enhance safety and sustain long-terkm economic growth.
” According to the , the projectd could create as manyas 10,000 jobs across the Among the projects is a $23 millionh reconstruction of the I-135/47th Street South interchangd in Wichita. The project will be let for bid in In all, Kansas will receive $378 million in stimulus monety for transportation infrastructure projects.

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