Southwest Blvd, Wichita

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Since what I'm revisiting is tangent to the original topic, I'm posting this as a new subject, rather than exhuming the Wichita Road Meet thread.

To review, from the Wichita Road Meet thread, regarding the K-2 and K-42 designations on Southwest Blvd. in Wichita:

Thanks for this--I checked and it seems both of the K-2 overlaps (K-14 south of Harper and K-42 to Wichita) disappeared between the 1993-94 and 1995-96 editions of the official state transportation map.  A check of the rural resolutions website suggests these changes were made, possibly through the same instrument, with a signature date of 1994-12-21, but I can't confirm right now because the relevant documents are not loading for me.

Sources conflict as to when K-42 was dropped along Southwest Blvd. within the I-235 loop.  It is shown on the 1997-1998 state map, but not the 1999-2000 one.  The only resolution the rural resolutions website lists for K-42 in Sedgwick County has a signature date of 1994-12-21, which suggests K-42 was pruned at the same time the useless overlaps of K-2 were removed, but I remember K-42 continued to be signed at the Meridian/Edwards exit for a time after the K-2 shields were removed.

A quick inspection of multiple resolutions dated 1994-12-21 shows that a large number (probably nearly all) useless overlaps were removed on that date, through multiple instruments (K-14 overlapping mileage in Barber and Harper counties handled by one instrument, K-2 overlapping mileage in Sedgwick and Sumner counties handled by another).

The one dealing with K-2 and K-42 in Sedgwick County is actually quite unclear as to what was to be done with the existing eastern terminus of K-42 in Sedgwick County.  It can be found here:

http://idmweb.ksdot.org/publiclib/publicdoc.asp?ID=003710819:1

The existing condition, before approval of this instrument, was that K-2 and K-42 overlapped on Southwest Boulevard all the way to the US 54 interchange.  The instrument hints that its sole purpose is to remove the useless K-2 overlap (". . . with the provision that the existing road shall remain on the State Highway System designated solely as K-42"), but it also contains language that references the "western city limits of Wichita," which on the K-42/Southwest Boulevard corridor are at the I-235 interchange.

The instrument, in fact, is so unclear and so badly worded that I think the K-2 signs were taken down right away but it was not realized until much later (perhaps as much as a year or two later) that the intent was also to move the K-42 terminus out to the Wichita city limits.

I was going through some notes on my computer, and stumbled upon a date when Southwest Blvd. between I-235 and Kellogg was turned back to the City of Wichita: March 1, 2001.

Although there is no Rural Resolution or CCL resolution, KDOT did post a document called "Kansas Map Changes." The 2001 changes are in this PDF document: http://www.ksdot.org/burtransplan/maps/mapchangehist/2001KSmapCHANGES.pdf

It shows that the removal was related to project K 4445-02. A web search identified K 4445-02 as the project number for the Kellogg/Oliver interchange.

So, in a nutshell: Wichita agreed to remove Southwest Blvd. inside I-235 as a CCL in exchange for construction of Kellogg and Oliver. The change was effective in 2001.

EDIT! five years after the fact (7/12/18) to reflect a glaring typo in the final paragraph