The more than 1,000 pages of text, charts and graphics that make a case for completing the South Lawrence Trafficway along one of two alignments soon will be available with the click of a mouse.

And then a wait at the mailbox.

HNTB Corp., the Kansas City, Mo.-based consultant that compiled the $2 million document, is producing 250 CD-ROM versions of the 16-month research project.

All of the discs will be mailed, free of charge, to those who request a copy.

“It’s just a good way to get it distributed,” said Scott Russell, HNTB’s director of public involvement programs. “One of our objectives is to get it out to people in a form they can use.”

To request a CD-ROM of the document, take one of the following routes:

click on www.southlawrencetrafficway.org and follow the “Project News” link to a comment form.

send an e-mail request to comments@southlawrencetrafficway.org. Be sure to put “Request EIS CD” in the subject line.

Call the trafficway project’s toll-free hotline, at (877) 873-4384, can leave a message with your name and address, requesting to have a CD-ROM of the document mailed to your address.

The CD-ROMs are expected to be available after Aug. 30, a month before the formal public-comment period ends.

A “Virtual EIS” also is scheduled to be posted on the project’s Web site by Aug. 30. But the posting will include the only draft’s 12-page overview, Russell said.

Putting the entire document enough to fill three three-ring binders online would test the patience of even the most savvy of computer users, Russell said. Even his high-speed Internet connection at work isn’t fast enough to get the job done.

“It’s just more functional to have the summary on there, and then let people order the CD,” he said.