Reconnecting the East Side
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Newsroom
Newsroom
- 4/3/2026 - News Release: Reconnecting the East Side: Let’s Build a Better US-71
- 3/19/2026 - News Release: Reconnecting the East Side Fourth and Final Community Summit set for April 7
- 9/11/2025 - News Release: Refine the Vision for US-71 - Third Community Summit set for September 16
- 6/20/2025 - News Release: Community Invited to Reimagine the US-71 Corridor Kansas City holding Community Summit on June 24
- 3/19/2025 - News Release: 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
- 5/1/2026 - Kansas City unveils $120M plan for safer 71 Highway parkway
- 5/1/2026 - Three concepts offered for U.S. 71 improvement: freeway, parkway, or removal
- 4/30/2026 - Kansas City, Missouri, unveils new option for how US 71 could be transformed to reconnect the East Side
- 4/28/2026 - KC intersections along U.S. 71 could change dramatically. New renderings show how
- 4/20/2026 - Kansas City may have finally landed on a plan for Highway 71
- 4/13/2026 - Should Kansas City turn US 71 Highway into a parkway? Residents say yes | Opinion
- 4/7/2026 - Project team to share plans on 'Reconnecting Kansas City's East Side'
- 4/7/2026 - Residents weigh in on the future of 71 Highway
- 3/11/2026 - Should Kansas City redesign US 71, or pay the neighborhoods it tore apart? | Opinion
- 2/12/2026 - Bruce R. Watkins, Kansas City's pathbreaking activist, opposed the highway now named for him
- 1/14/2026 - Hundreds of drivers pulled over on US 71 Highway during enforcement effort: KCPD
- 12/21/2025 - What do Kansas City residents want to do with Highway 71? Several options are on the table
- 12/18/2025 - Enterrupt KC: Missouri's Most Dangerous Highway?
- 11/25/2025 - Highway, parkway or road? Kansas City considers how to transform Highway 71
- 10/5/2025 - The KC Scene: Reconnecting the East Side
- 9/19/2025 - KSHB-41: 'Reconnecting the East Side' project seeks to reimagine US 71 Highway
- 9/16/2025 - Kansas Citians weigh in on future of storied 71 Highway
- 8/4/2025 - Kansas City artists are helping reimagine Highway 71 in an effort to reconnect neighborhoods
- 6/25/2025 - What's Up Kansas City: CMG Interview with Selina Zapata [Bur] and Earl Harrison on the Reconnecting the East Side Project
- 6/24/2025 - KCTV5: Kansas City residents weigh in on plan to improve dangerous, divisive highway
