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The Lawrence Coalition for Safe Streets is advocating for a city-funded study to make Tennessee and Kentucky streets safer, and the group heard from experts Sunday about initiatives and strategies to approach the issue locally.
The city’s maintenance work on Iowa Street is complete ahead of schedule, while other projects on Bob Billings Parkway and on 27th Street are delayed.
The City of Lawrence has received a grant to run an audit of two major thoroughfares, change the timing of some traffic lights and supplement a written safety plan.
About half a mile of Second Street will close to through traffic, work on Iowa Street will flip to the other side of the road and more roadwork will be underway in the coming week.
Two blocks of Maine Street will close for maintenance, as well as parts of westbound West 27th Street. Some work on 19th Street is temporarily halted for Douglas County Fair festivities.
A 1-mile section of U.S. Highway 40 northwest of Lawrence in Douglas County will be closed next week.
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19th Street between Haskell Avenue and Harper Street will close to traffic Tuesday, and there will be overnight work at 9th and Iowa later in the week.
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Drivers should prepare for delays on K-10. Flaggers will direct traffic as lanes will be reduced on the west leg of the South Lawrence Trafficway this week.
As part of the K-10 expansion project, the southbound exit ramp to West Sixth Street in northwestern Lawrence will soon be closed for a few months.
As construction work on Sixth Street in downtown Lawrence continues, the traffic patterns will change Monday, and drivers should anticipate delays.
