The Cost of Our Roads. (Cole Blaise | Flatland)
The Cost of Our Roads. (Cole Blaise | Flatland)

The Cost of Our Roads | Episode 4

February 20, 2017  |  Cole Blaise  |  1 min read

If you’ve ever wondered how Kansas and Missouri maintain their roadways, “The Cost of Roads | Episode 4,” looks at what’s being done to fund the roads Kansas Citians rely on everyday in the fourth of a five-part digital series looking at our city’s aging infrastructure.

Public Works? The Cost of Our Aging Infrastructure is a months-long project taking you underneath the pavement to tackle the state of our water and sewers. We track the state of highways and bridges in Kansas and Missouri. We take a closer look at our public transit system. And, perhaps most importantly, we convene policymakers and industry leaders in search of solutions.

— The five episodes of Part I, including “The Cost of Our Roads,” will be woven together to form one larger story that runs at 7:30 p.m. on March 2 on KCPT. Find other articles on the metro’s infrastructure here, and follow the project with #KCpublicworks.

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