Explore Lawrence plans to debut a new mobile visitor center to promote tourism to Lawrence and Douglas County. Allison Calvin, the director of marketing and communications for Explore Lawrence, told the Journal-World the goal is to “meet visitors where they are at.” Explore Lawrence plans to use the mobile center at local events and also at target markets across the Midwest to help encourage more tourism ...
State officials shared more details on Wednesday about a passenger rail project that would connect Newton and other cities in Kansas to destinations in Oklahoma and Texas by 2029. The Kansas Department of Transportation held a virtual meeting on Wednesday on the proposal to extend Amtrak’s Heartland Flyer line — which currently runs between Fort Worth and Oklahoma City — to the north along the I-35 ...
Over the span of his career, Mike Dever has found a way to be close to the ideas of city planning. Dever, who earned a degree from the University of Kansas in environmental studies and geography, has spent his almost 40-year career looking at topics like land use as an environmental and building consultant. Although his career took him away from Lawrence for a few years, he came back to the city in 1998 and ...
Lawrence city commissioners voted to approve an agreement with a design firm to redesign a portion of Mass. Street, opting for a design that would shrink space for cars from four to three lanes and add protected bike lanes as part of a revamp of the street. The commissioners voted unanimously to approve a $494,915 design agreement with Trekk Design Group to draft a new design on Massachusetts Street from 14th ...
Lawrence commissioners will consider approving wholesale changes to the Downtown parking enforcement program — from decriminalizing parking violations to changing the appeals process — that would go into effect at the start of next year. The biggest change as part of this proposal would be shifting the city’s current enforcement process from a legal one that can lead to court dates or the issuance of ...
City commissioners will consider approving a redesign of a portion of Mass Street that shrinks space for cars from four to three lanes and adds protected bike lanes as part of a multimodal redesign. The potential addition of bike lanes to Massachusetts Street from 14th Street to 23rd Street had been explored by the city since 2023, as the Journal-World reported. That corridor is part of the priority bikeway ...