Showing the Progress of Watkins Drive

1998 mileage sign on Watkins Drive in Kansas City, Mo. 1999 mileage sign on Watkins Drive in Kansas City, Mo.

On the left, the mileage sign on Watkins Drive (US 71) northbound in August 1998, when the roadway ended at Swope Parkway. On the right, a photo of the same sign on July 27, 1999, a few days after the next section of roadway had been completed up to the exit for Linwood Boulevard and 31st Street just east of midtown Kansas City.