Kansas T-Link

So much discussion and data go into the development of a state transportation program that it's something of a miracle that highways even get built.

As the state’s 10-year Comprehensive Transportation Program (CTP) reaches its conclusion, we need to begin planning for our state’s next multi-modal transportation program. Governor Kathleen Sebelius has enlisted me to form a task force, Transportation Leveraging Investments in Kansas (T-LINK), which will be charged with developing recommendations for a new strategic approach that recognizes all forms of transportation and serves our future.

By 2009, all the projects committed to in the Comprehensive Transportation Program (CTP) will be underway. This means it is time to start looking to the future on transportation in our state.

States have put the brakes on millions of dollars of highway construction projects and are scrambling to substitute scarce state funds for the federal funds that have been cut off due to the crisis in the Highway Trust Fund.