The city of Wichita plans to work with state and federal officials to redesign part of the planned interchange at the Kellogg and I-235 freeways to preserve a bridge that the city wants to use for a bike and pedestrian path linking downtown Wichita to Garden Plain. The city is hoping to save an abandoned railroad bridge across the Big Ditch south of Kellogg and east of Hoover, now the eastern end point of the Prairie Sunset Trail, said Gary Janzen, city engineer. But the bridge, at the perfect spot to extend the bike trail, also happens to be at the same spot where the state Department of Transportation planned to sink a pier for a ramp in the next phase of construction on the freeway interchange.
Source: Wichita Eagle.
