photo by: Chad Lawhorn/Journal-World

The South Lawrence Trafficway is shown in the background on Oct. 2, 2024.

A new round of disruptions are coming to the Sixth Street interchange on Kansas Highway 10 in west Lawrence.

Beginning Wednesday, motorists who are traveling southbound on K-10 — which is also known as the South Lawrence Trafficway — won’t be able to use the exit ramp to get to Sixth Street. The ramp leading to Sixth Street will be closed to traffic until early June, as crews undertake work to expand the SLT to four lanes, the Kansas Department of Transportation announced Monday.

Southbound motorists will be directed to travel farther south on the SLT and exit the road at the Bob Billings interchange.

The change is not scheduled to impact northbound motorists on the SLT. Motorists on Sixth Street who want to enter the SLT via the southbound entrance ramp also will be able to do so during the construction period. Plans currently only call for the southbound exit ramp to be impacted by the construction.

The SLT construction project — which will add two lanes between the Lecompton interchange and the Iowa Street interchange — began late last year. Construction on the $170 million project is expected to last into 2028, but transportation officials have said the road will remain open throughout the project.