RESOLUTION NO. 910536
Indicating to the Missouri Highway and Transportation
Commission the City Council's request that certain roads, bridges and
intersections be considered for improvement in anticipation of increased highway
funds.
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WHEREAS, the federal government is currently
considering legislation that will significantly increase highway grant funds to
the State of Missouri and its political subdivisions. The increased funding
level will permit the Missouri Highway and Transportation Commission and the
state's political subdivisions to advance previously scheduled projects and add
new projects to existing programs; and
WHEREAS, Appendix A contains a listing of projects
that the City considers important to the orderly development of a total ground
transportation system in the Kansas City metropolitan area; and
WHEREAS, the City is willing to share in the cost of
certain improvements as described in Appendix A; and
WHEREAS, the State of Missouri will be required to
increase its funding levels to the state highway system in order to fully
utilize the increased federal aid grants; and
WHEREAS, the City now wants to indicate to the
Missouri Highway and Transportation Commission its request that the Commission
consider the incorporation of the projects in Appendix A into its future
programs, and that the development and construction of these projects be
accelerated upon the receipt of the increased federal highway funds; NOW, THEREFORE,
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COUNCIL OF KANSAS CITY:
That the City herewith submits to the Missouri
Highway and Transportation Commission its request that those projects listed in
Appendix A be considered for inclusion in the Commission's program and, where
appropriate, those projects that are currently programmed be accelerated upon
the receipt of increased federal highway funding, and the anticipation of
additional state funding to highway improvements, and the list of projects are
as follows:
1. Improving the intersection of Broadway and 5th
Street.
2. Widening Wornall Road from I-435 to 101st
Terrace.
3. Widening Missouri Highway 45 from I-29 to I-435
(west).
4. Completing Missouri Highway 152 to freeway
standards from Brighton Avenue to I-435 (west).
5. Assisting in replacing the Chouteau Bridge over
the Missouri River and accepting Chouteau Trafficway from
Missouri Highway 210 to Front Street into the
Missouri
State Highway System.
6. Constructing interchanges on U.S. 169 at N.W.
96th Street and N.W. 108th Street and realigning N.W. and N.E. 96th
Street from Baughman Road to N. Oak Trafficway.
7. Realigning and widening Missouri Highway 150
from State Line Road to U.S. 71.
8. Extending Missouri Highway 78 from I-435 (east)
to I-35 and accepting it into the Missouri State Highway System.
9. Accelerating the construction of Bruce Watkins
Memorial Drive from 63rd Street to the Central Business District.
10. Improving North Oak Trafficway from Missouri
Highway 9 to I-29.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that this Resolution be
spread upon the minutes of the Council and a copy therefore be delivered to the
Missouri Highway and Transportation Commission at its scheduled monthly meeting
being conducted in Kansas City, Missouri on May 3, 1991 in testimony thereof.