Repaving is on the way to parts of Madison. But that doesn’t mean everyone in town wants it. “They have raised the highway up so high that they’re higher than our curbs,” city employee James Paugh told Monday night’s Madison City Council meeting. Paugh, who manages the city’s water treatment plant, said he’s been informed by the Kansas Department of Transportation that state repaving is planned either in 2022 or 2023, beginning from Southwest Boulevard or K-249. “We don’t have that drainage,” Paugh said. He promised to talk with KDOT staff members in Topeka about cutting down the pavement.
Source: Emporia Gazette
