4 Kansas counties, 10 cities receive $8.6 million in cost-share grants

TOPEKA, Kan. (KSNW) — Four Kansas counties and 10 cities will share $8.6 million in cost-share grants.

The grants will help cover the costs of 14 transportation projects across the state. The program under the Kansas Department of Transportation helps cover a portion of the costs for local governments to repair local transportation infrastructure like roads, sidewalks, and local airport runways.

The program, which began in 2019, has helped support 179 projects across the state.

“These new Cost Share projects will repair and modernize transportation infrastructure in communities across Kansas,” says Governor Laura Kelly .

“Collaboration on these selected projects address short-term challenges to bring long-term solutions to the places Kansans call home.”

The projects announced Thursday are:

• City of Baxter Springs – Bagcraft Boulevard improvements.
• City of Edwardsville – 104 ^th Street sidewalk expansion.
• City of Fort Scott – East National Avenue project.
• City of Hesston – East-west community connection.
• City of Hoisington – Green and Vine Street resurfacing and pedestrian improvements.
• City of Inman – Street improvements for Nikkel Addition .
• City of Norton – Oliver Lane and Franklin Avenue paving project.
• City of Sabetha – Kansas Road and 14th Street surfacing.
• City of St. John – St. John Street improvements.
• City of Wamego – Kaw Valley Road improvements.
• Cloud County – Noble Road pavement preservation project.
• Lane County – Airport runway and county road improvements.
• Seward County – Meade Lake Road HMA overlay.
• Wallace County – Smoky Hill River low water crossings project.

For more information about KDOT’s Cost Share Program, click here .

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