More than $9.1 million of the roughly $93.6 million Kansas received in federal highway and transportation funds through a COVID-19 relief bill will go to the Wichita and Kansas City areas, officials said Thursday. Gov. Laura Kelly and Kansas Department of Transportation Secretary Julie Lorenz announced the breakdown of how transportation dollars through the Coronavirus Response and Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act will be spent during a news conference at the Meridian Center in Newton on Thursday. The legislation, which was signed into law Dec. 27, included $10 billion for state highway and transportation systems, with Kansas receiving about $93.6 million, according to a news release from the governor’s office. Studies show each dollar in transportation “ripples through the economy four times over,” Lorenz said.
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