An old approach to landscaping the recently built North Ohio Street railroad overpass would have been green, conservative — nay, a little dull, even — and a heck of a lot more labor-intensive.

The traditional route meant planting the slopes of the overpass with water-sucking fescue grass and mowing once a week.

“The idea here is only to mow it once a year,” landscape architect Craig Rhodes said of the landscape design being employed on the overpass. It features prairie grasses, shrubs and trees that are weather-tolerant and native to Kansas.

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