The state Department of Transportation (MoDOT) is now in the design-build phase for the $240-million I-70 Rocheport bridge project, west of Columbia. MoDOT director Patrick McKenna says cold weather has been a factor. “You know obviously we can’t be doing a lot of active construction when it’s 13 degrees out. But the contractor is out …
Two-thirds of Missouri’s traffic fatalities in 2021 involved unbuckled motorists
State transportation officials are raising concerns about the increasing number of Missouri traffic fatalities. More than 1,000 people were killed in traffic crashes across the state in 2021, the first time that’s happened since 2006. State Department of Transportation (MoDOT) director Patrick McKenna describes the fatalities as unacceptable, alarming and preventable. He says two-thirds of …
Several hundred transportation, law enforcement and safety professionals in Columbia for conference
Missouri’s governor is praising the state’s transportation director for his work in managing the nation’s seventh-largest highway system, with limited funding. Governor Mike Parson (R) made his comments Monday to a few hundred professionals at a statewide highway safety conference being held in Columbia. The governor has signed legislation increasing the state’s gasoline tax by …