Some highway updates were given at the Dec. 20 Finney County Commission meeting. Lona DuVall, President/CEO of the Finney County Economic Development Corporation gave two area highways updates at the meeting, both being announced as part of the Kansas Secretary of Transportation’s new highway proposals on Dec. 15. The first update is that the expressway on U.S. Highway 50, between Dodge City and Cimarron, will be finished and then U.S. Highway 83, between Garden City and Scott City, is slated to get passing lanes. … FCEDC gave a presentation on the modeling data of the highway system, traffic counts and how that relates to the economy. DuVall said the high point of the presentation is that southwestern Kansas’ GDP per capita and per vehicle surpass every other region of the state but there are fewer divided highways, which are important for the economy to get the goods made in the area to other parts of the state. ‘The way that KDOT has traditionally scored economic impact wasn’t capturing a picture of our gross domestic product out here,’ she said.
Source: GC Telegram
