• About Us
  • Advertise
  • Contact Us
  • Privacy Policy
  • Pickem Terms and Conditions
Wednesday, February 8, 2023
The Platte County Landmark Newspaper
  • Home
  • Local News
  • Opinion
  • Landmark Pickem!
    • Weekly Pickem Updates
    • Results by Week
    • The Leaderboard
    • Pickem Rules and Help
  • Landmark Live!
  • Looking Backward
  • es_MXSpanish
  • Home
  • Local News
  • Opinion
  • Landmark Pickem!
    • Weekly Pickem Updates
    • Results by Week
    • The Leaderboard
    • Pickem Rules and Help
  • Landmark Live!
  • Looking Backward
  • es_MXSpanish
No Result
View All Result
The Platte County Landmark Newspaper
No Result
View All Result

Hwy. 92 improvement work set this week

Ivan Foley by Ivan Foley
August 2, 2021
in Headlines
Lane closure

Stock image

18
SHARES
452
VIEWS
Share on FacebookShare on TwitterShare via Email

Expect nightly lane closures

The long-awaited repair work for a rough stretch of Hwy. 92 in Platte City is slated to get started this week, according to the Missouri Department of Transportation.

Crews will close various eastbound and westbound lanes of Hwy. 92 between Running Horse Rd. and Marshall Rd. from 7 p.m. until 6 a.m. nightly, beginning Monday, Aug. 2 and continuing through Saturday, Aug. 7 for pavement repair work.

RelatedNews

Caution tape around downtown building

KC’s new airport ready to fly on Feb. 28

First Watch is open at Tiffany Springs

Originally the work was set for late June, but was delayed to better fit the contractor’s schedule.

The work will be a cost-share project between the state and the City of Platte City.

As previously reported in The Landmark, the stretch of Hwy. 92 from roughly Marshall Road near the post office to Kentucky Avenue near QuikTrip developed a mine field of potholes in the winter months. MoDOT earlier this spring did come do some patchwork on the stretch, but even with the patches motorists are finding the drive is still anything but smooth.

A milling and overlay of Hwy. 92 through Platte City was not originally scheduled by the Missouri Department of Transportation for a few years, but the rapid deterioration of that stretch of the highway brought some complaints. The complaints came from motorists and also from the City of Platte City.

Encouragement from the city has now prompted MoDOT to schedule milling and overlay for this summer. Platte City’s “encouragement” not only came through complaints but also through the city’s willingness to share in the cost of the improvements this summer.

Original discussions had the area to be improved running from Kentucky to Marshall, but MoDOT has now expanded the scope of work to tie the resurfacing directly to the western end of the ongoing Exit 18 improvement work.

According to DJ Gehrt, city administrator for Platte City, the original scope of work had an estimated cost of $560,000. Adding an additional 700 linear feet to the project increases the estimated cost to $622,000.

If the cost share is approved, the City of Platte City is expected to be between $280,000 to $320,000.

Gehrt said the city’s amended transportation capital project budget is sufficient to fund the city’s portion of the project within that range.

Motorists are reminded to slow down and pay attention while driving in work zones. Not all work zones look alike. Work zones can be moving operations, such as striping, patching or mowing. They can also be short term, temporary lane closures to make quick repairs or remove debris from the roadway.

Tags: platte cityplatte county
Ivan Foley

Ivan Foley

Ivan Foley, owner/publisher of the Platte County Landmark, has been on the news beat in Kansas City's Northland for 40 years. He provides weekly observations in his Between the Lines column and serves as host of Landmark Live, a light-hearted videocast featuring newsmakers in the Northland.

Related Posts

Downtown Platte City

Caution tape around downtown building

by Ivan Foley
February 3, 2023
0

Caution tape surrounds a commercial building at the northwest corner of Third and Main Streets in downtown Platte City. City officials say a few bricks at the top front of the vacant building had worked loose and fell to the...

KCI Airport

KC’s new airport ready to fly on Feb. 28

by Ivan Foley
February 3, 2023
0

FOUR-YEAR BUILDING PROJECT WILL SOON OPEN An opening date has been announced for Kansas City’s $1.54 billion new airport terminal, located in Platte County at the site of the existing KCI Airport. Kansas City officials this week the new airport...

First Watch is open at Tiffany Springs

First Watch is open at Tiffany Springs

by Ivan Foley
February 3, 2023
0

MAHOMES-OWNED WHATABURGER ALSO PLANNED A First Watch restaurant has opened at Tiffany Springs in Platte County. The new First Watch opened recently near the N. Ambassador/NW Skyview intersection at Tiffany Springs. The official address is 9021 N Ambassador Dr., Kansas...

Platte County Resource Center

Sheriff’s office planning to move out of Platte City

by Ivan Foley
February 3, 2023
0

New home may be resource center near KCI A plan is in the works that would move the Platte County Sheriff’s Department headquarters out of the county seat of Platte City. As exclusively reported last week by The Landmark, the...

Next Post
Chris Nilsen

Park Hill pole vaulter wins Olympic silver

Popular News

  • First Watch is open at Tiffany Springs

    First Watch is open at Tiffany Springs

    40 shares
    Share 16 Tweet 10
  • Caution tape around downtown building

    30 shares
    Share 12 Tweet 8
  • Sheriff’s office planning to move out of Platte City

    18 shares
    Share 7 Tweet 5
  • KC’s new airport ready to fly on Feb. 28

    12 shares
    Share 5 Tweet 3
  • Culinary-inspired library planned at Green Hills

    101 shares
    Share 40 Tweet 25
  • About Us
  • Advertise
  • Contact Us
  • Privacy Policy
  • Pickem Terms and Conditions
Call us at 816-858-0363

Copyright © 2019-2020 The Platte County Landmark Newspaper - All Rights Reserved

No Result
View All Result
  • Subscribe Online
  • Home
  • Local News
  • Opinion
  • Landmark Pickem
    • Login / Sign-up
    • Results by Week
    • The Leaderboard
    • Pickem Rules and Help
  • Landmark Live!
  • Looking Backward
  • es_MXSpanish

Copyright © 2019-2020 The Platte County Landmark Newspaper - All Rights Reserved