Project overview
The Missouri Department of Transportation anticipates the need to replace four bridges over I-670 within the next 10 years; these bridges are at Baltimore, Main, Walnut and Grand. The City is proactively looking at the bridge replacement as an opportunity to create an asset for the City, to build on the recent successes of Downtown, to improve the pedestrian environment, to catalyze further urban development and to promote urban density and activity. The schedule for the bridge replacements allows time to analyze the highest and best use for the corridor and examine the feasibility of varying concepts. With this study, the City of Kansas City, Mo. in conjunction with the Missouri Department of Transportation and a consulting team led by HNTB took the first step: measuring public support for such a project and determining if concepts, varying in scale, are physically feasible. |
