SLT completion not expected for at least eight years
Completion of the South Lawrence Trafficway can’t be expected until 2012 — if, in fact, it’s ever built.
That estimate came during a meeting this morning of Lawrence and Douglas County officials with planners from the Kansas Department of Transportation.
Past SLT stories“What’s your best-case and worst-case scenario for building the SLT?” Douglas County Commissioner Charles Jones asked the KDOT officials.
“The easy answer is the worst-case scenario, that it will never be built,” said Sally Howard, KDOT’s chief counsel, noting the agency has no money set aside for the project.
The best case, she said, is that KDOT would win a lawsuit challenging the road plan in two years, then some combination of local, state and federal funding raised for the project.
“Your most amazingly best guess is 2012,” Howard said. “And that’s a dream more than anything.”
The meeting was held to discuss long-term road-planning issues in Douglas County.
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