The Tomahawk and Mission roads intersection, near the Shops of Prairie Village, has closed for a wastewater project and repaving.
The closure, which started Aug. 8, comes as Prairie Village’s flood control project along Mission Road between Tomahawk Road and 67th Street is underway — and as Shawnee Mission students head back to school Tuesday, Aug. 15.
The intersection will be closed until the end of August
- Public Works Director Keith Bredehoeft told the Prairie Village City Council on Monday that this key intersection will remain closed for three weeks.
- Cliff Speegle, stormwater project manager, told the Post via email that the three-week closure will allow Johnson County Wastewater to complete its collector main improvement project.
- The repavement of the Tomahawk and Mission roads intersection will also happen during this three-week time period, Speegle said.
Roe Avenue is the main detour route
- Speegle said 63rd and 75th streets are the primary detour routes for all traffic.
- Local traffic can use 67th and 71st streets to get to Roe Avenue from Mission Road.
- “Residential streets should not be used as a cut through to bypass the detour,” Speegle added.
- Pedestrian traffic is also closed, and sidewalk detours are posted.
A detour map provided by Speegle is embedded below.
Mission Road is planned to reopen in the fall
- Councilmember Inga Selders noted that the closure is happening as school is about to start for Prairie Elementary and Indian Hills students, and both schools are on Mission Road.
- Bredehoeft said the work is anticipated to wrap up in late fall, and the city is keeping the 67th Street and Mission Road intersection open for pedestrian traffic.
- “[Shawnee Mission was] able to work with us through that until we are able to get [Mission Road] back open this fall,” Bredehoeft said, noting that the schools’ officials are aware and on board with the detour routes until Mission Road fully reopens this fall.
- Speegle also told the Post that Prairie Elementary drop off and pick up will remain the same during the Mission Road closure, but traffic will need to use 67th Street to get back to the detour at Roe Avenue.
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