A 2-mile stretch of the Kansas Turnpike where seven people have died in flooding will soon offer better protection for drivers.
Workers are about halfway through a project to improve drainage on a stretch about 10 miles south of Emporia. Six people, including five members of a Missouri family, died there in 2003. A Texas man drowned last year. All of the deaths were caused by vehicles getting caught in floodwaters.
The Wichita Eagle reports (http://bit.ly/296niOj) that the $2.7 million project between mile markers 116 and 118 will install massive box culverts that run beneath the highway. The goal is to keep ...
A 2-mile stretch of the Kansas Turnpike where seven people have died in flooding will soon offer better protection for drivers.
Workers are about halfway through a project to improve drainage on a stretch about 10 miles south of Emporia. Six people, including five members of a Missouri family, died there in 2003. A Texas man drowned last year. All of the deaths were caused by vehicles getting caught in floodwaters.
The Wichita Eagle reports (http://bit.ly/296niOj) that the $2.7 million project between mile markers 116 and 118 will install massive box culverts that run beneath the highway. The goal is to keep ...