Tag: highway project
Iola Council members agreed to postpone for one year any decision on rebuilding U.S. 54 Highway through town. The project had been set to begin this spring, but new cost estimates put it beyond their…
A significant increase in the overall cost of rebuilding Iola’s main thoroughfare will take precedence at Monday’s Iola Council meeting. In 2022, the council pegged the cost for the U.S. 54 Highway rebuild at approximately…
With a $13 million road rebuild looming, Iola City Council members discussed how they plan to pay for it at Monday night’s meeting. A charter ordinance allowing the city to incur that much debt took…
Iola officials have officially put a full rebuild of U.S. 54 through town on the city’s “to-do” list. City Council members voted, 5-1, Monday to begin the lengthy process of first coming up with a…
Iola City Council members will discuss Monday an engineer’s recommendation to fully rebuild U.S. 54 through town. In early 2021, Council members hired the Burns and McDonnell engineering firm to inspect the highway, including boring…
A highway improvement project between Humboldt and Chanute could cause a bit of a traffic headache for local industries and businesses, but it shouldn’t take too long, county commissioners learned. In highway construction terms, that…
At some point over the next few years, much of U.S. 54 will need to be rebuilt through Iola. Cognizant of what such a disruption would mean for business owners and residents alike, city officials…
