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Friday, October 10, 2008 11:39 AM

Photo by Elliot J. Sutherland/The Ottawa Herald


This view of work on the U.S. 59 highway projects shows the Pawnee Road bridge, east of Ottawa, before it was demolished last weekend. Construction crews have finished work on a new connector bridge that spans I-35 and links I-35 to the new U.S. 59 expressway.

Will new highway please motorists?

By JENALEA MYERS, Herald Staff Writer

The new U.S. 59 will feel very familiar.

When it opens, travelers who turn their wheels onto the fresh pavement between Ottawa and Lawrence likely will feel like they are driving on the interstate, Ron Kaufman, a spokesman for the Kansas Department of Transportation, said.

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