Kansas Department of Transportation

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Kansas Department of Transportation
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Agency overview
HeadquartersEisenhower St. Office Bldg.
700 SW Harrison St,
Topeka, Kansas 66603
Employees2,515 (FY17)
Annual budget$1.6 billion (FY12)
Agency executives
  • Julie Lorenz, Secretary of Transportation
  • Burt Morey, State Transportation Engineer
Website www.ksdot.org
Footnotes
[1]

The Kansas Department of Transportation (KDOT) is a state government organization in charge of maintaining public roadways of the U.S. state of Kansas.

Contents

Funding issues

Since 2012, over $2 billion has been diverted from its coffers to the Kansas general fund and state agencies, earning it the nickname "the bank of KDOT", and jeopardizing the agency's ability to maintain roads in the state. [2]

Organization

KDOT's previous logo KDOT.svg
KDOT's previous logo

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References

  1. ↑ "KDOT Executive Staff". KSDOT.org. Kansas Department of Transportation. Retrieved April 3, 2009.
  2. ↑ Grabar, Henry (June 30, 2016). "Kansas' Insane Right-Wing Experiment Is About to Destroy Its Roads". Slate (blog).
  3. ↑ "Kansas Department of Transportation: District 1 Information". KSDOT.org. Kansas Department of Transportation. December 10, 2007. Archived from the original on December 4, 2011. Retrieved November 6, 2011.
  4. ↑ "Kansas Department of Transportation: District 2 Information". KSDOT.org. Kansas Department of Transportation. 2009. Archived from the original on December 6, 2011. Retrieved November 6, 2011.
  5. ↑ "Kansas Department of Transportation: District 3 Information". KSDOT.org. Kansas Department of Transportation. May 17, 2009. Archived from the original on December 6, 2011. Retrieved November 6, 2011.
  6. ↑ "Kansas Department of Transportation: District 4 Information". KSDOT.org. Kansas Department of Transportation. 2009. Archived from the original on December 4, 2011. Retrieved November 6, 2011.
  7. ↑ "Kansas Department of Transportation: District 5 Information". KSDOT.org. Kansas Department of Transportation. July 6, 2009. Archived from the original on December 6, 2011. Retrieved November 6, 2011.
  8. ↑ "Kansas Department of Transportation: District 6 Information". KSDOT.org. Kansas Department of Transportation. 2009. Archived from the original on November 29, 2011. Retrieved November 6, 2011.



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