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Tweet Right-of-way acquisition for the Johnson Drive rehabilitation project between Lamar and Nall has not gone smooth, according to reports this week. The street will be rebuilt from building front to building front, maintaining four lanes of traffic and head-in parking. It turns out that the public easements going down the street are not uniform. [...]
Tweet After being pushed back from its original start date because of this year’s weather, Mission’s Martway reconstruction project has begun and the street closings have kicked in. Martway is now closed at Woodson where the box bridge that carries Rock Creek under the intersection will be replaced. The intersection will be closed for about [...]
Tweet The massive volume of snow that piled up over the course of a few short hours Thursday morning wreaked havoc on standard street-clearing strategies, preventing plows from cleaning streets before a thick layer of the white stuff had made travel treacherous. And though the snow has stopped falling, road and rescue crews have a [...]
Tweet With the biggest snowstorm in two years bearing down on the Kansas City area, northeast Johnson County snow removal crews are preparing for as much as 24 hours of straight snowfall. Acting Prairie Village Public Works Director Keith Bredehoeft said the first plow crews will arrive at 7 p.m. Wednesday, and the department will [...]
Tweet With the completion of the major revamp of the Nall Avenue and Somerset Drive intersection this past fall, Prairie Village has rolled out a new traffic signal designed to eliminate ambiguity about who has the right-of-way when motorists are attempting to make a left turn. The new signals feature a series of left turn [...]
Tweet A water main break that made for sluggish traffic along Mission Road Thursday will cause additional detours today. WaterOne, Johnson County’s water utility, was forced to close Mission Road near 86th Street almost all day Thursday on account of the main break, which occurred sometime around 8 p.m. Tuesday night. Detours at 83rd Street [...]
Tweet Looks like we’re in for a slippery New Year’s Eve, everyone. The Weather Service has issued a winter weather advisory for the Kansas City area starting at 6 a.m. Monday and running through 6 a.m. Tuesday. Snow is expected to begin early and continue through early Monday afternoon. Forecasters expect a break Monday afternoon [...]
Tweet The Great Thundersnow of 2012 did more than just give us all the opportunity to use the term “thundersnow” — for which I, at least, am eternally grateful. It also gave Prairie Village’s Public Works Department a chance to try out a new street salt product it hopes will save the city money and reduce [...]
Tweet Detour alert, Villagers. The city of Prairie Village has closed Somerset Drive at Nall Avenue to through traffic until November 6. The move comes as crews begin significant street repairs along Somerset Drive from Roe Avenue to Nall Avenue. Crews will be re-paving the asphalt and making curb and sidewalk repairs. They will also [...]
Tweet The Prairie Village city council on Monday will consider a policy proposal that would let residents formally protest the construction of a new sidewalk on their street. Since 2000, city policy has dictated that all city streets have at least one sidewalk. Arterial and collector streets — those that attract the most traffic — are [...]
Tweet The heat continues to take its toll on local water mains. The city of Fairway sent a message to residents Thursday alerting them to two water main repair projects scheduled to begin Friday morning: A contractor for Water One will begin work in the Westbound lanes of Shawnee Mission Parkway near Windsor on Friday [...]
Tweet Heads up if you get a late start to work Tuesday and Shawnee Mission Parkway is part of your morning commute: Crews will begin work to replace a temporary patch to a broken water main near the intersection of Pawnee Lane and Shawnee Mission Parkway around 8 a.m. Fairway Police Chief Mike Fleming sent out [...]
Tweet ‘Tis mid-summer. Which means ’tis construction season. The Prairie Village police department posted a message on its Facebook page about several street closures today. Plan accordingly, motorists: Several streets will be closed today from 8 am to 5 pm. W. 71st Terrace from Roe to Nall, W. 77th Street from Roe to Briar and [...]
Tweet Prairie Village Public Works announced yesterday that construction on the new Benton House assisted living facility will necessitate the closure of 79th Street today starting at 9 a.m. The road will not be passable between Belinder Ave. and Norwood Rd. Crews anticipate that the road will be reopened later today.
Tweet Fairway has sent out an update on repairs to the broken water main at Shawnee Mission Parkway and Mission Road. They’ll start permanent repairs tomorrow morning to the temporary patch they put in to stop the water flow after the main broke Wednesday. Mission Road will be limited to one lane of eastbound traffic [...]
Tweet Looks like commuters could be in for a slog along Shawnee Mission Parkway this evening. The city of Fairway sent out a notice this afternoon alerting residents to a broken water main near the intersection of Shawnee Mission Parkway and Mission Road. The message is copied below: There has been a water main break [...]
Tweet Though most members of the city council acknowledge Prairie Village could face a roads maintenance crisis if it doesn’t find a way to fund recommended repairs in coming years, a sometimes heated debate Monday demonstrated the group doesn’t to have the will at present to raise property taxes — even if it could save taxpayers [...]
Tweet Prairie Village City Councilor Charles Clark on Wednesday sent a letter to his peers on the City Council laying out his case for considering an increase to city property taxes as a way to stem what would be increasingly costly maintenance and repairs to city infrastructure in the coming years. He argues that while [...]
Tweet City Councilor Charles Clark feels strongly that it’s the duty of the city to protect and maintain the infrastructure built up in Prairie Village since the city was incorporated in 1951. And he’s warning his colleagues on the City Council that, unless they make changes to the city’s revenue and spending formula, the roads, [...]
Tweet Construction crews in Fairway are at work putting in a new section of sidewalk from the west side of the 5600 block of Mission Road south to the city limit at 63rd Street — and it serves as an interesting point of reference in the ongoing trails debate in Prairie Village. At five feet, [...]
Tweet A stretch of the one of the most popular exercise routes in the area will be closed to wheeled traffic over the course of the next four to six weeks as crews work to repair erosion done to a creek bed wall. Mission Hills has hired a contractor to shore up the banks of [...]
Tweet An incident in which car traveling above the posted speed limit of 15 miles per hour slid over a wooden bridge and through a stop sign last month is prompting the Mission Hills City Council to consider installing a traffic calming device on the stretch of Indian Lane that runs downhill toward the intersection [...]
Tweet In the tea party era, one of the most frequently parroted political refrains is that governments shouldn’t borrow money they don’t have. But for the man who chaired the Prairie Village’s finance committee in 2009 when it went forward with $8 million in new bonds, the city’s decision to incur debt was the smart [...]
Tweet Photo courtesy KMBC.com. Careful out there this morning, Villagers. The first appreciable snowfall of the season has left area streets slick. KMBC reports that the slippery streets contributed to a two car wreck at 75th and Roe here in Prairie Village that sent a car crashing into the side of a house. Their story [...]
Tweet The Prairie Village city council on Monday approved a bond issuance bid from UMB that will raise $4.5 million slated primarily to be used for street repairs. The move came after an open-market competitive bidding process Monday, during which the city received 11 bids for its bonds. “It’s a very strong result and an [...]
