Overland Parkway\US 69

[ddonnelly19]

Anybody know how long US 69\Overland Parkway in Overland Park, KS was signed as "Alternate 69" when first built?  There's still a lot of people and businesses locally that refer to it as "Alternate 69" despite it not being signed like that for over 30 years.

[J N Winkler]

Have you checked the Rural Resolutions website and GIS?

http://kdotapp2.ksdot.org/RuralResolutions/RuralResolutions.aspx

http://ksdot.maps.arcgis.com/home/webmap/viewer.html?webmap=dd8eab6c309645289649a46a27a86158

http://ksdot.maps.arcgis.com/home/

A casual check of the Rural Resolutions database for US 69 in Johnson County turns up a resolution dated 1969-11-12 saying that the then existing city street routing of US 69 would be retained as a detour routing until the US 69 freeway was finished and the old route was turned back to local agencies.

[ddonnelly19]

Wow -- lots of detail here.  Noticed the original resolution listed (in error?) the northern part as US 269.  However, no mention of it ever being designated as Alternate US-69.

Also, this would have happened the same time that the original US-69 designation on Metcalf (south of US-56/Shawnee Mission Pkwy) was switched to US-169, but I couldn't find anything on that on the Rural Resolutions site.  I'm guessing this was probably around the late 1970's/early 80's when that happened.

[ddonnelly19]

Found some old KDOT maps at http://www.ksdot.org/bureaus/burTransPlan/maps/HistoricStateMaps.asp, along with info here:  http://www.route56.com/highways/highways.php?hwy=169&seg=1&hist=1

Looks like the highway opened 1975-76 as Alternate 69, then changed to US-69 in 1981 when US-169 was rerouted to Metcalf.