A Love Triangle: As MoDOT's $260 million redesign of Kansas City's Notorious Triangle Comes to a Close, Motorists are Feeling More Positive About the Drive

This article describes a $260 million redesign of Kansas City, Missouri’s messiest traffic interchange, where I-470, I-435, U.S, 71 and multiple local routes converge to form of triangle of congestion. The reconstruction, in the making for nine years, is almost finished and promises the more than 250,000 daily commuters a smoother, faster, safer ride. The author describes the five phases of the redesign, the amount of material used, and the challenges faced by contractors who could not use conventional pier locations. To solve that problem, the construction company used steel box girders as framed-in-cap, a complex design where a cross girder is supported on piers to reduce the length of the span. The design was a traditional design-bid-build project, but worked more like a design-build, which shaved two years off the project’s schedule.

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• Authors:
  • Kinder, Jim
• Publication Date: 2007-4

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: Photos;
• Pagination: pp 24-29
• Serial:
  • Roads & Bridges
  • Volume: 45
  • Issue Number: 4
  • Publisher: Scranton Gillette Communications
  • ISSN: 8750-9229
  • Serial URL: http://www.roadsbridges.com/rb/

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Construction safety; Construction scheduling; Highway safety; Interchanges; Road construction
• Geographic Terms: Kansas City Metropolitan Area
• Subject Areas: Bridges and other structures; Construction; Highways; Safety and Human Factors; I20: Design and Planning of Transport Infrastructure; I50: Construction and Supervision of Construction;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01050321
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: UC Berkeley Transportation Library
• Files: BTRIS, TRIS
• Created Date: May 31 2007 7:29AM