The city’s first infrastructure project to be fueled with new sales-tax revenue will come with a bonus: a new turn lane.

A project — to grind up the damaged road surface and replace it with fresh pavement — will run along Ninth Street, from Iowa to Tennessee streets.

Also included: a new center turn lane for traffic on Ninth, heading onto Avalon Road, said Mark Thiel, assistant public works director. The stretch of Avalon heading north from Ninth will be moved slightly to the east, to make it more of a 90-degree intersection.

The entire project will be financed, in part, with an estimated $290,000 in revenues from a new 0.3 percent city sales tax approved by voters in November.

The work is expected to begin in late June or early July, with hopes of finishing by the time Kansas University classes resume in the fall, Thiel said.

This week, the city also started its “microsurfacing” work, which this year will involve placing a thin layer of pavement on an estimated 45 lane miles of city streets.