The Kansas Department of Transportation announced Monday that construction of planned alterations at the East 1200 Road intersection on Kansas Highway 10 will start next week.

Weather permitting, the $80,000 project will start at 9 a.m. Nov. 7 and is to be finished by Nov. 18. East 1200 Road access to and from K-10 will be closed during construction, but KDOT anticipates “little or no impact” to K-10 traffic from the work, a KDOT news release said.

In June, KDOT announced it would convert the East 1200 Road/K-10 intersection to a right-on, right-off configuration, which allows no traffic maneuvers across the highway’s center line. East 1200 Road becomes Kasold Drive about a half mile to the north at 31st Street in Lawrence. The configuration is designed to decrease the risk of T-bone crashes with the anticipated doubling of traffic at the intersection when the South Lawrence Trafficway opens in November.

KDOT agreed to the right-in, right-off configurations in June in response to public protests to its earlier proposal to close all K-10 access from East 1200 Road.

Cillessen and Sons of Kechi was awarded the contract for the project.