The Missouri Highways and Transportation Fee has chosen a Clarkson-Radmacher three way partnership for its Enhance I-70 KC challenge. The $237 million overhaul goals to enhance security and accessibility on the 5-mile stretch of I-70, in keeping with the company.
Clarkson Building Co. and Radmacher Brothers Excavating, each primarily based in Kansas Metropolis, Missouri, competed in opposition to one different group, a Lunda Building Co. and Parsons three way partnership, for the design-build contract. Building is slated to begin in spring 2025 with an anticipated end by spring 2028, which is seven months forward of the required completion date, in keeping with the discharge
The challenge is a part of a broader overhaul: Missouri allotted $2.8 billion in its fiscal 12 months 2024 funds to reconstruct 200 miles of I-70, which runs east-west throughout the state and has been a supply of consternation for drivers for many years.
The Kansas Metropolis work will happen between Paseo Boulevard and U.S. 40/thirty first Avenue, a closely traveled section that features 12 interchanges and 26 bridges. The bridges, pavement and bicycle and pedestrian services all want restore and enchancment, in keeping with the Missouri Highways and Transportation Fee.
The challenge will:
- Add a fourth eastbound I-70 lane from Prospect Avenue to the Manchester Avenue Bridge.
- Change 15 bridges and rehabilitate one other seven bridges.
- Enhance pedestrian and bicycle connectivity all through the challenge space.
- Reconstruct I-70 from Chestnut Avenue to 18th Avenue.
- Reconstruct eastbound I-70 from twenty seventh Avenue to Cypress Avenue.
- Rehabilitate westbound I-70 from twenty seventh Avenue to Cypress Avenue.
At present, the part has slim shoulders, brief distances between ramps, low bridge vertical clearances and outdated roadway geometric options, per the discharge.
“This challenge is important to the Kansas Metropolis area to interchange growing old infrastructure, enhance connectivity between neighborhoods alongside and throughout I-70 and enhance security and site visitors circulate together with the Benton and Jackson curves,” mentioned Missouri DOT Undertaking Director Allan Ludiker within the launch. “We’ll do all of this whereas retaining three lanes of I-70 open every course throughout the World Cup.”
Kansas Metropolis will host six FIFA World Cup video games in 2026. The metropolis is getting ready by renovating the Arrowhead Stadium, constructing new parking buildings, working to complete its KC Streetcar extension strains and making different infrastructure enhancements.
