There's just a whole multitude of existing access points along K-7 that need to go away over time.

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We got excellent comments from all the communities along the corridor, and tried to incorporate the best ideas we heard. Our recommendation of a freeway had mixed reviews. They do agree it's smart to preserve the right of way.

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I don't see any funding on the horizon for a good number of years here. There's different ways to piecemeal this thing, but there just isn't significant monies now to do a freeway.

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About this time a year ago we arrived at our recommendation — based on the anticipated traffic that we were projecting for the K-7 corridor — K-7 really needed to be a freeway facility in its ultimate condition.

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We've also been looking into some new, innovative financing tools. We realize since there is no funding today that it will be some time before a freeway is built. There will have to be some interim improvements.

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