PITTSBURG, Kan. — Kansas Department of Transportation (KDOT) officials met with area residents and community leaders Thursday at Memorial Auditorium in preparation for the next round of public input sessions scheduled for the end of July concerning the U.S. 69 corridor. The goal of the meeting was to get feedback on how KDOT can best present their findings from the last public input session in a way that is easily understandable. According to their findings, nearly 50 percent of all responses during the last session concerned improvements to traffic flow along the bypass around Pittsburg, specifically from Atkinson to Centennial.