TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - Joined by two former Republican governors
who championed Kansas highway programs, Democrat Gov. Mark
Parkinson made a pitch for more projects.
Parkinson said Monday that while Kansas is ranked tops in the
nation for its road system by Reader's Digest, it won't take long
for that 10,000-mile system to deteriorate.
Speaking with Parkinson were Gov. Mike Hayden, who passed a
10-year plan in 1989, and Gov. Bill Graves, who pushed through a
second, 10-year plan in 1999.
Hayden and Graves said the magazine's ranking was a testament to
the vision more than 20 years ago to improve what Hayden described
as a deplorable condition of Kansas' roads.
Parkinson has proposed a sales tax increase to lay the
foundation for another comprehensive transportation program.
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