Kansas received $396,000 in federal grants to improve and promote scenic highway routes. The Kansas Department of Transportation said its scenic byways program received $160,000 to help it start a new marketing program that’s under development.
An additional $160,000 will go to the Wetlands and Wildlife National Scenic Byway, to help educate travelers about the 76-mile route around the Cheyenne Bottoms wetlands in central Kansas.
Also, $76,000 will allow the Flint Hills National Scenic Byway to add a paved parking lot for visitors to an information center just north of Matfield Green, in south-central Kansas. The Flint Hills route is a 47-mile stretch of Kansas 177.
The state has designated nine road stretches as scenic byways.
$160,000 to educate travelers? And, these are federal funds. If they are travelers, and have taken the time to drive to the Flint Hills, maybe they could do their own education by having a look at it. But, I guess, as always, the Fed and the state of Kansas has far more better things to do with money than help out people who ned help.
