Kansas Department of Transportation secretary Julie Lorenz outlined her vision Tuesday for a long-range highway plan built around an evolving pipeline of projects and attention to technology needs.
She presented lawmakers in the Senate Transportation Committee with the plan for “Forward,” the agency’s proposal for the next in a series of long-term blueprints for addressing the state’s infrastructure needs.
The idea behind “Forward” is to identify and deploy major projects every two years, as opposed to mapping out 10 years worth of projects all at once. Under T-Works, the most recent highway plan, years of funding sweeps let to severe delays and the elimination of projects.
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