I-135 ramp closing, slowing downtown Wichita commutes [Video]

WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) – A major ramp on I-135 is closing starting Monday.

The southbound I-135 ramp to westbound Kellogg will be shut down for more than a month.

That means for people living northeast of Kellogg, it’s shaping up to be a major setback

A project set to last until mid to late May is closing the ramp from southbound I-135 to westbound Kellogg.

“It’s rehabilitation,” said JB Wilson with the Kansas Department of Transportation. “There’s just that specific interchange gets a lot of traffic and it’s more of a maintenance thing.”

Wilson said now, instead of using that ramp to go straight from the I-135 south onto westbound Kellogg, drivers will have to exit the roadway, get on northbound I-135, and get onto Kellogg from there.

The red line and X mark the ramp that will close. The proposed detour has southbound I-135 drivers taking the Lincoln St. exit ramp, then …