By Dan Verbeck
KANSAS CITY, MO. – Kansas City and Liberty have come up with a remedy for a notoriously dangerous stretch of Northland highway. Two intersections of Missouri 152, at Church Road and Flintlock, are rated among the top five worst wreck locations in Kansas City. The intersections lie close to Liberty city limits.
Major Rick Lockhart of Kansas City's Shoal Creek police division said that bus traffic and congestion were the major factors that drove them to find a fix.
"Liberty schools actually have more than a hundred school buses that drive through that congested area every day," Lockhart said.
A study group found that more than 30,000 vehicles drive through the intersection daily. Out of the 88 accidents last year, sixty-two were rear-enders and twenty-five resulted in personal injuries.
Lockhart said the plan is to build a flyover span to cross I-35 in that area. The state has $19 million to complete the improvements, and both Kansas City and Liberty need to put an additional two million into the project.