Reconnecting the East Side
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Newsroom
Newsroom
- 3/19/2025 - Media Advisory: Kansas City Launches First Phase of “Reconnecting the East Side”
- Press Release: Mayor Lucas to Announce $5 Million RAISE Planning Grant to Study Improvements to US 71 Highway/Bruce R. Watkins Drive
- 8/9/2024 - Press Conference: Reconnecting Communities Divided by US 71
- 10/11/2023 - Press Conference: Reconnecting Kansas City
In the News
In the News
- 4/30/2025 - Highway 71 tore though Kansas City's Black neighborhoods. Can that damage be repaired?
- 3/24/2025 - This Kansas City highway is a 'barrier' to East Side, locals say. What could the city do?
- 3/22/2025 - 'Reconnecting the East Side' project aims to restore community impacted by US Hwy 71
- 3/22/2025 - City leaders hear from East Side residents: ‘What are the problems we’re trying to solve?’
- 3/21/2025 - Kansas City Hates 'Racist' 71 Highway?!?
- 3/20/2025 - Reconnecting the East Side as US-71 Hwy Continues to Divide Neighborhoods
- 3/19/2025 - Reconnecting Kansas City: Meetings begin to improve decades-long issues along 71 Hwy
- 3/18/2025 - Kansas City considered a highway from downtown to the Plaza. Then residents fought back
- 2/21/2025 - Flatland: Kansas City Bears Racial Scars of Interstate System
- 2/13/2025 - Land of Opportunity: The Road of Resistance | Full Documentary
- 6/25/2024 - Working toward a safer space: ‘71 Highway Reconnect KC’ moves to city council
- 11/2/2023 - Kansas City up for billions in possible financing for infrastructure projects from USDOT
- 10/26/2023 - USDOT Partners With KCMO To Study Finance For $15B In Infrastructure Projects
- 5/25/2023 - Highways Have Sliced Through City After City. Can the U.S. Undo the Damage?
- 3/2/2023 - Passing the Baton: Carmaletta Williams on Highways Breaking Neighborhoods
- 8/15/2022 - History of U.S. 71: How it continues to divide neighborhoods today
- 1/3/2022 - Exploring Kansas City in 1957
- 9/15/2021 - My Family's Kansas City Story
- 1/9/2020 - Land of Opportunity | Full Documentary
- 11/18/2019 - KC Q - 71 Highway Traffic Signals
