Green Impact Zone Transportation Improvements
Crews replace sidewalks and curbs at 51st and Garfield streets in Kansas City, Mo. Fact sheet about impacts to trees (from MARC) |
The Green Impact Zone is a 150-block area in the Kansas City, Mo., urban core that has been devastated over the years by high rates of poverty and violence, high levels of unemployment and crime, and high concentrations of vacant and abandoned properties. For that reason, local and regional leaders have endorsed the idea of targeting resources in this area to jump-start its economic recovery and community revitalization by connecting a range of stimulus-funded programs. TIGER is one of many federal programs investing in this area.
Much of the transportation infrastructure in the Green Impact Zone is in poor condition and does not meet current engineering standards. Having a transportation system in disrepair contributes to the problem of declining neighborhoods and employment centers.
Planned Projects
TIGER funds will be used to rehabilitate the infrastructure in the Green Impact Zone by focusing on the following projects:
- Better transit-stop amenities
- Improvements will be unique to each location but may include: shelters, benches, real-time signs, bus pull-outs and pads, sidewalks, and solar lighting
- Traffic-signal improvements
- Interconnect and synchronize traffic-signals
- Replace outdated poles and controllers with modern equipment
- Arterial street resurfacing and sidewalk replacement
- Resurface at least three miles of major roads
- Replace broken sidewalks, curbs and driveway approaches along major streets
- Troost Avenue pedestrian bridge
- Build a pedestrian bridge under the Troost Avenue Bridge
- Neighborhood improvements
- Replace broken sidewalks, curbs and driveway approaches in select neighborhoods
- Repave select residential neighborhood roads
Specific details about the project can be found in the draft scope documents and in the Green Impact Zone TIGER presentation.
View progress in the Green Impact Zone
General Work Schedule
| Bid Release Dates | |
| Sidewalk and curb improvements: 39th Street from Troost to Prospect | Spring 2011 |
| Sidewalk and curb improvements: 43rd Street from Troost to Prospect | Spring 2011 |
| Sidewalk and curb improvements: Emanuel Cleaver II Boulevard, Swope Parkway, Benton Boulevard, Paseo Boulevard | Spring 2011 |
| Sidewalk and curb improvements: Troost Avenue from 39th Street to Emanuel Cleaver II Boulevard | Spring 2011 |
| Construct traffic signal interconnect and upgrades | Fall 2011 |
| Construct pervious pavement (Wabash & Emanuel Cleaver II Boulevard, Olive & Emanuel Cleaver II Boulevard) | Winter 2012 |
| Pavement resurfacing on major arterial streets | Winter 2012 |
| Sidewalk and curb improvements: Manheim Park North | Winter 2012 |
| Sidewalk and curb improvements: Manheim Park South | Winter 2012 |
| Sidewalk and curb improvements: East 49-63 | Winter 2012 |
| Construct Metro bus-stop amenities | Spring 2012 |
| Construct pedestrian bridge under Troost Avenue bridge | Spring 2012 |
| CONTINGENT PROJECTS: (based on funds available) | |
| Sidewalk and curb improvements: Ivanhoe SW (north sector) | Winter 2012 |
| Sidewalk and curb improvements: Ivanhoe SW (south sector) | Summer 2012 |
| Sidewalk and curb improvements: Ivanhoe SE (north sector) | Summer 2012 |
| Sidewalk and curb improvements: Ivanhoe SE (south sector) | Summer 2012 |
| Sidewalk and curb improvements: Blue Hills | Summer 2012 |
| Sidewalk and curb improvements: North Town Fork Creek | Summer 2012 |
| Street rehabiliatation in Manheim Park, East 49-63, Ivanhoe, Blue Hills, North Town Fork Creek | Summer 2012 |
