Public Works News

The City has a small crew working tonight treating primary and secondary streets. Temperatures will hover around freezing which may cause slick conditions. Drivers should use caution, especially on elevated surfaces such as bridges and overpasses. The City will continue to monitor the weather forecast and will update its response as needed.

As of 12/21/23, this section of NW Ward Road is now open.

The southbound section of NW Ward Road between NW Donovan Road and NW Chipman Road is closed until approximately Dec. 1, weather permitting. The southbound detour is NW Donovan Road. The closure is for the addition of turn lanes and other improvements. This is development-related construction work by a private contractor.

The City of Lee’s Summit will host an in-person public meeting to discuss the design for the Ward Road Improvements project from Blue Parkway to O’Brien Road from 4:30 – 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, Dec. 14, 2023, in the Strother Conference Room at Lee’s Summit City Hall, 220 SE Green Street Lee’s Summit, Mo. The meeting will be an open house-style format and there will not be a formal presentation; the public can come and go as schedules allow. Project plans and exhibits prepared by the City’s design consultant Walter P. Moore and Associates, Inc. will be available to view, and attendees will have the opportunity to discuss the project and offer comments.

Update: As of 12/21/23, 3rd Street is now open to through traffic. Construction work will be be ongoing over the next several months that will require the contractor to have a single lane drop on westbound 3^rd Street (just east of Murray) during working hours, but a minimum of one lane of traffic will be kept open at all times.  No further complete closures are anticipated.

A section of SW 3^rd Street from SW Pryor Road to SW Ward Road is set to close to through traffic on Mon., Nov. 27, and will remain closed for approximately thirty days, weather permitting. A hard closure of SW 3^rd Street will be located just east of SW Murray Road. The closure is necessary for sanitary sewer work under SW 3^rd Street as part of the McClendon Ditch improvements project.

The City of Lee’s Summit is holding a snow dry run from 7 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 24, to allow crews to prepare for the upcoming 2023-2024 winter weather season. City crews are testing equipment and software, and driving snow routes with plows and salt spreaders installed on trucks. The purpose of the dry run is to ensure all equipment and software are working properly and that drivers are familiar with snow routes, which is critical to the City’s snow and ice control operations. The annual snow dry run was scheduled in advance and is not in response to any forecast. Crews are also testing turn-by-turn routing. Snow plow drivers have touchscreen tablets in their trucks to guide them through their assigned routes. This technology routes trucks more efficiently and reduces the chance of missed streets.