Traffic & Transit
Highway KR Now Closed Until 2022
Highway KR is being rebuilt as part of the Foxconn Wisconn Valley development and will now be closed for about two years.
RACINE, WI — Motorists traveling in southern Racine County will have to find a new way around as the Wisconsin Department of Transportation embarks on a two-year project to reconstruct Highway KR — the road bordering southern Racine County and northern Kenosha County.
Highway KR was officially closed Tuesday as work begins on a 16.5 mile-stretch of multi-lane roadways in and around the Wisconn Valley Development.
As part of the construction, Highway KR, between County Highway H and Old Green Bay Road is being reconstructed.
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Highway KR between County Highway H and Highway 31, is scheduled to close to traffic through fall 2022.
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