Traffic & Roads

A stretch of Nall Avenue in Prairie Village is closed for the next couple of weeks as part of a road improvement project. Nall Avenue between 75th and 79th streets is closed as the city completes a 2024 County Assistance...

License plate readers are coming to a busy intersection in northeast Johnson County. The Merriam City Council on Monday voted 7-1 to approve a $50,000 expense to install license plate readers at the Shawnee Mission Parkway and Antioch Road intersection. Councilmember...

A major road construction project in Edgerton to rebuild parts of Second Street and Edgewood Drive has begun. Several streets through the heart of the small southwestern Johnson County town have cracked and potholed and lack proper storm drainage, requiring...

Editor's note: This story was updated at 10:02 p.m. Tuesday to reflect the corrected newsletter released in the late afternoon. Major closures along U.S. Highway 69 and Interstate 435 through Overland Park will start this week as work on the...

On top of the already approved slate of annual chip seal work, Overland Park will also use other road resurfacing methods, including mill and overlay and ultrathin bonded asphalt, to preserve and rehabilitate other streets in 2025. All told, the...

The city of Prairie Village is looking at improving five major thoroughfares over the next five years. The Prairie Village City Council last week voted 11-0 to approve a five-year plan for the city’s County Assistance Road System program funding...

The stretch of 167th Street between Metcalf and Antioch in Overland Park will fully close to traffic for six months as part of the major reconstruction work on U.S. Highway 69. The closures also mean the entrance and exit ramps...

A stretch of 55th Street in Roeland Park that the mayor called "dangerous right now" has prompted city officials to consider a plan to make it safer. The north side of 55th Street between Shawnee Mission Parkway and Roe Boulevard...

A stretch of 66th Street near Prairie Elementary in Prairie Village is finally receiving traffic calming measures. After years of residents wanting some sort of traffic calming measure along 66th Street between Roe Avenue and Mission Road, the Prairie Village...

Overland Park has earmarked about $4.4 million for annual street preservation work in 2025 using the long-debated chip seal method. The work this year will cover roughly 140 lane miles of city streets. It comes as city leaders say they’re still...

A major street project on Tomahawk Creek Parkway in Leawood began earlier this month, with trail and partial road closures beginning next week. The project, which is expected to be complete in December, stretches from College Boulevard to Roe Avenue...

Two key sections of Lone Elm Road in Olathe are primed for major upgrades. The Olathe City Council voted 5-0 last month to approve spending more than $32 million on two separate projects along the thoroughfare. The projects include adding turn...