Pleasant Hill is doing its part to speed up the Katy Trail’s linkup with Kansas City.
While state workers clear brush to the east of town, the Cass County city is planning its own leg northwest toward Kansas City. The project is a key step in getting closer to the eventual end of the cross-state trail near the Jackson County Sports Complex. . . .
[I]nstead of waiting for state construction to run its usual course, [the city] is preparing to build five miles of trail on its own, some of it even outside city limits. The leg would connect the old Pleasant Hill depot with the city lake near the Cass/Jackson County line.
The project will cost about $750,000. Half the money will come from a transportation grant. The city also has applied for $90,000 in recreation grant funds.
The work is expected to be completed next summer, the same time that state workers are expected to finish a five-mile stretch of the Katy running east of the city to P Highway.
The east-of-town stretch is the first part of the 46-mile leg to Windsor.
