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LYON COUNTY (KSNT) - A person driving in the pre-dawn hours on Sunday in rural Lyon County got a big surprise when a bridge collapsed beneath their tires.
A recent bridge collapse in Kansas will take months to repair and likely bring about costs above $100,000.
About 23,350 vehicles pass through that block every 24 hours, that map says. Topeka's most heavily trafficked location overall, when highway tallies are included, is the stretch of Interstate 70 running between S.W. Fairlawn Road and S.W. US-75 highway, where about 63,400 vehicles pass through every 24 hours. KDOT takes the short-term traffic counts using rubber tubes strung across the roadway and connected to a traffic counting device, which records the number of vehicles passing over the tubes, said Kim Stich, a spokeswoman for KDOT. Whenever a vehicle drives over the tube, the traffic cou...
A sharp surge in the number of people driving way too fast accompanied the start of the COVID-19 pandemic last March, says Kansas Highway Patrol Lt. Candice Breshears. The KHP in 2020 issued 68% more tickets than it did the previous year for excessive speeding, which means driving 100 mph or more, Breshears said Monday. "Everything just skyrocketed," and the trend has continued, she told The Topeka Capital-Journal in a phone interview. Deaths on Kansas roadways increased last year to a preliminary/unofficial total of 425 from 412 in 2019, said Kim Stich, a spokeswoman for the Kansas Depar...