Reconstruction and widening of US-50/83/400 (the Bypass) from Fulton Street to Kansas Avenue is underway. Closure of the Bypass to traffic was effective Wednesday, January 16. While various detour routes exist, the signed detour route is Kansas Avenue, Campus Drive and Fulton Street. Construction will take about three months.

Local traffic is allowed east to west across the Bypass at Spruce Street; however there is no access to the Bypass at Spruce. Local traffic on Schulman Avenue west of the Bypass is available from Campus Drive and McCoy Street. Local traffic on Schulman and the frontage road east of the Bypass is available from Jennie Barker Road.

Construction access to Menards is available only from Lareu Road and Leslie Road from Kansas Avenue.

Smoky Hill, LLC, Salina, is the contractor for this project. The $2,328,760 project is jointly funded by the Kansas Department of Transportation and the City of Garden City. This work is related to Menards and the Schulman Crossing commercial development. The project widens and reconstructs the Bypass approximately one-third mile north and south of Schulman Avenue, adding turning lanes and a traffic signal at Schulman.