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I noticed over the weekend there was a lot of dirt moving on the north side of Pleasant Valley Road between the north and south lanes of I-35. Is this the start of reworking the interchange? I didn't see anything on the MoDOT major projects list website.

It is. The signs showing completion in summer 2017 went up already too.

hopefully the pedestrian component stayed in the plan. modot in recent years finally recognized they can't build interchanges without any pedestrian path and not look like jerks when cities have trails end at their intersection/bridge


here's the existing thread
http://kcrag.com/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=19252

I look forward to it, but I think there will still be issues if it doesn't include doing something with Pleasant Valley Road on the west side of I-35. Especially if they put the shopping center in on the Liberty side. I have a feeling that will cause an increase in traffic on PV Road and that road is barely two lanes as it is. Once you get through PV and hit the KC city limits on the west side you get a real road again.

a wider road would create an increase in traffic because more cars could drive on it. they can't build their way out of the issue.

I looked at the city council minutes back a few meetings and they're covering things like tree trimbing in council meetings. they're looking to rebuild their fire station. I don't see them having the money for a road widening at that scale of things.

and even then, most of the one-lane segment is in Kansas City. I would imagine they would widen well before Pleasant Valley would.

From the plans it does look like they will be at least re-doing the section of road right in front of the QT. That road is badly washboarded from all the semi traffic.

This project is in full swing. They have the new ramp to SB well along, much of the new lanes north of Pleasant Valley Rd is paved and did some repaving of turn lanes at the intersection below.

If I understood the sign correctly the other day, we will be entering 35 south on the new ramp in a couple of weeks.

New ramp opens to south I-35 on Sept. 3rd I think.

With the ramp moved, a bunch of mainline work has been done. The pylons for the new bridge over Pleasant Valley Rd is being worked on right now

The new bridge over PV Road is well along, it looks like the road underneath is going to four lanes.

My guess is the new bridge will be done before summer and then the work to redo southbound can begin

SB traffic is temporarily using the new offramp ramp and NB lanes
They're tearing out the existing SB pavement to redo that direction. Looks like they started late last week

Related work to redo the over Poe and Bryant bridges is on the second side

Got a Nixle alert. the old SB bridge looks to be coming out March 26

They closed Pleasant Valley road for several months and I saw via Twitter they're close to using the new mainline SB lanes.

The redone SB mainline is open. The new NB mainline north of PV Road is being paved today

Church road is closed just before PV road because they put in a temp off ramp that uses part of Church Rd.

All the bridge work is done and barriers are being out back in. They're putting sound walls in on some segments too.

This project is nearing completion. It adds no new capacity and actually recovers land by reducing the width of the freeway envelope in one area

Mainline traffic is on the new bridges both directions. The old bridges and dirt is coming out and they have one segment of redone mainline to repave.