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- Haskell, KU students walking to underscore environmental, Native American spiritual issues of trafficway
- May 16, 2012
- A group of Kansas University and Haskell Indian Nations University students had made it to Brunswick, Mo., on Wednesday evening in their effort to walk from Lawrence to Washington, D.C., to raise awareness about the environmental controversy surrounding the South Lawrence Trafficway.
- State commits to building 15th Street interchange on SLT if $2 million in local funds is used
- April 27, 2012
- A long talked-about interchange at Bob Billings Parkway and the South Lawrence Trafficway may be under construction by 2014, if city and county commissioners can find an extra $2 million in their future budgets.
- Attorneys for South Lawrence Trafficway supporters, opponents square off in oral arguments in Denver appeals court
- January 19, 2012
- Attorneys on both sides of the South Lawrence Trafficway argument made their cases in the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver on Thursday.
- State transportation officials abandon idea of tolls on South Lawrence Trafficway
- 02:27 p.m., January 5, 2012 Updated 04:09 p.m.
- The Kansas Department of Transportation has decided against making any portion of the South Lawrence Trafficway a toll road, the agency announced Thursday.
- Settlement reached in 2009 K-10 fatality
- 10:10 p.m., December 29, 2011 Updated 12:00 a.m.
- A Douglas County judge Wednesday approved a $250,000 settlement in a lawsuit over the 2009 death of a 21-year-old Lecompton man in a motorcycle accident on the South Lawrence Trafficway.
- Lawrence city leaders to ask Kansas legislators for increased speeding fines along K-10, new sales tax for Internet shoppers, SLT to be completed
- December 19, 2011
- From roads to the speeders who drive on them, Lawrence city commissioners have items they hope state lawmakers will address during the upcoming legislative session.
- State to contact Lawrence property owners about purchasing right-of-way land for completion of South Lawrence Trafficway
- November 21, 2011
- State transportation officials soon will contact about 60 Lawrence property owners to begin the process of buying right-of-way to complete the controversial South Lawrence Trafficway.
- South Lawrence Trafficway appeal awaits oral arguments
- 05:27 p.m., September 8, 2011 Updated 05:18 a.m.
- At stake: Whether the $192 million project can continue as designed, with construction contractors to be hired in late 2013, or whether plans for the highway must face a new round of regulatory study and potential redirection.
- Lack of use takes a toll on South Lawrence Trafficway bridge
- August 29, 2011
- Turns out a road not traveled still yields to Mother Nature and Father Time.
- Attorney working on South Lawrence Trafficway lawsuit says attempt at mediation ended in impasse
- 04:01 p.m., June 24, 2011 Updated 05:26 p.m.
- An ongoing lawsuit seeking to change the construction path for an extension of the South Lawrence Trafficway has been referred to an appeals court mediator, according to court documents.
- Democrats call Brownback ‘disingenuous’ in touting highway projects
- June 3, 2011
- Gov. Sam Brownback criss-crossed the state this week announcing more than $1.8 billion in major highway projects, including the South Lawrence Trafficway in Lawrence. And that has Democrats crying foul because Brownback, a Republican, opposed the increase in the state sales tax rate to fund the state’s comprehensive transportation program.
- KDOT commits $192 million to complete South Lawrence Trafficway
- Entire SLT might be a toll road, if feasible
- 11:02 a.m., June 3, 2011 Updated 05:33 p.m.
- The Kansas Department of Transportation announced Friday morning that the state has committed $192 million to complete the South Lawrence Trafficway project.
- South Lawrence Trafficway fatal accident victim is from Lyndon
- Widower, police seek other driver in ‘extreme tragedy’
- 12:54 p.m., June 1, 2011 Updated 03:09 p.m.
- The Douglas County Sheriff’s office has identified a 48-year-old Lyndon woman as the victim of a fatality accident Tuesday afternoon on the South Lawrence Trafficway.
- Environmental groups file appeal with 10th U.S. Circuit Court to stop South Lawrence Trafficway project
- April 22, 2011
- Groups opposed to the planned South Lawrence Trafficway have asked the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to stop the $188 million project.
- Opponents to South Lawrence Trafficway file appeal with U.S. Court of Appeals
- April 22, 2011
- Groups opposed to the planned South Lawrence Trafficway have asked the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to stop the $188 million project.
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