A project to rebuild an 8-mile stretch of eastbound Interstate 44 in central Missouri from Rolla to St. James has hit a roadblock. Quality control issues were found with newly poured concrete there. According to Acting MoDOT Director Ed Hassinger, the errors need to...
Missouri’s nearly $51 billion state budget proposal is under consideration in the Senate. The spending proposal would widen I-44 to six lanes in Springfield, Joplin, and Rolla. It also includes a 3.2% pay increase for state workers and it would boost funding for...
One member of the Missouri House hopes the Senate takes efforts to improve Interstate 44 seriously. A small section of Missouri’s longest interstate runs though the district of State Rep. Don Mayhew, R-Crocker. He said that stretch of I-44 has some critical needs....
Interstate highways 70 and 44 aren’t the only limited access freeways in Missouri that need upgrades. Patrick McKenna, director of the Missouri Department of Transportation, said there are multiple needs along all the interstates that pass through the Show-Me State...
While I-70 received a 2.8 billion dollar expansion, many legislators thought Missouri’s longest interstate, I-44, needed the funding more. MoDOT Director Patrick McKenna joins Marshall Griffin to discuss 44’s next steps.
