From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Feb. 18, 1990:

The environmental impact statement for the proposed south Lawrence trafficway was to be the topic for a public meeting next week. The meeting, sponsored by the Jayhawk Audubon Society and the Kansas Area Watershed Council, was expected to draw several local residents who had been giving the recently-released statement mixed reviews. “I think the county has dealt with these issues in good faith,” said Roger Boyd, a Baker University biology professor, adding that the EIS had satisfactorily addressed concerns about the trafficway’s impact on the Baker Wetlands south of 31st Street and the Elkins Prairie west of Lawrence. However, Boyd said, there were other areas that would be affected by the road that had not been addressed by the EIS, such as Yankee Tank Creek, which would be crossed “four or five times” by the road. “There is a relationship between Yankee Tank Creek and the wetlands habitat,” Boyd pointed out. The proposed $58.2 million roadway, planned to connect Kansas Highway 10 with the Kansas Turnpike, was on hold while the Kansas Supreme Court considered a lawsuit concerning the county’s 1985 issuance of $4 million in bonds for the project.