Crews have been moving utility poles as part of Kansas City Public Works' project to widen Lee's Summit Road between Lakewood Boulevard and Anderson Drive, just south of Independence. The road, seen here from the entrance to the Space Center Summit caves, has been closed since August 2023 and will remain closed until the fall of 2025. [Mike Genet/The Examiner]
By Mike Genet mike.genet@examiner.net After groundbreaking last August, the first project of a long-anticipated plan to reconstruct and widen Lee’s Summit Road south of Independence…