Those toll booths were never installed, leaving miles of obsolete and hazardous ramps, cutting off land prime for development. The Kansas Department of Transportation’s Turner Diagonal: Partnering for Growth project in Kansas City brought together public and private partners to re-imagine a decades-old interchange in order to improve safety, reduce congestion, promote development, and provide better access to public transit.īuilt in the 1960s, the original Turner Diagonal Interchange was designed to accommodate tolls. This broad public outreach campaign began in 2006 to ensure robust participation in the environmental process and continued throughout the project’s planning, design, and construction phases.
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The project features a series of safety upgrades and multimodal improvements, including a multi-use path, reduced interchanges, rehabilitated pavement, reconstructed shoulders and ramps, 10 bridge replacements, bike lanes, and two new signature pedestrian bridges.ĭue to residential and commercial development and historical properties adjacent to the freeway, this project entailed a significant amount of agency coordination and collaboration and extensive public involvement and outreach. Decades later, NCDOT prioritized improvements along a 1.2-mile stretch of the route, redefining it as the gateway into downtown Winston-Salem.
The North Carolina Department of Transportation’s Reconstruction of Salem Parkway project was the first significant improvement to this historic roadway, which opened in 1958 as the first section of Interstate 40 in North Carolina. In addition, these winning projects reflect a commitment on the part of state DOTs to work closely with their communities to ensure projects meet the needs of the people who use them.” “This vital work didn’t stop during the pandemic and it continues today because transportation is essential for our quality of live and economic vitality. “This competition recognizes the effort and dedication that goes into planning, building, operating, and maintaining America’s vast multimodal surface transportation network,” said Jim Tymon, AASHTO executive director. Chamber of Commerce sponsor the annual competition. The American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials, AAA and the U.S. In addition, the Kansas Department of Transportation’s $30.3 million Turner Diagonal: Partnering for Growth project was voted the People’s Choice Award winner. 421/I-40 Business) project earned the Grand Prize. The North Carolina Department of Transportation’s $101.6 million Reconstruction of Salem Parkway (U.S. SAN DIEGO –A community-inspired multimodal improvement project that vastly improved safety and travel options in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and a critical traffic interchange redesign and replacement project in Kansas City, Kansas, have been honored as the top prize winners in the 2021 America’s Transportation Awards competition.
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