Winter is coming, and MoDOT is prepping. The Missouri Department of Transportation is holding a winter weather drill Thursday all across the Snow-Me State. Daren Hamelink, State Maintenance Director, said MoDOT snowplows will be out and about as people are driving to...
Missouri is on track to experience a decline in traffic and motorcyclist deaths this year. As for pedestrian deaths, those have spiked in the Show Me state. Jon Nelson, MoDOT’s highway and traffic engineer, said three-quarters of the way through the year, the number...
Missouri had a record-high number of people killed in traffic crashes last year that involved motorcycles – 172. John Nelson, state highway safety and traffic engineer for the Missouri Department of Transportation, said each of the last three years have seen...
The Missouri Department of Transportation has lowered the speed limit along the stretch of Interstate 70 where work is underway to expand the highway to six lanes. Jeff Gander, Director of Phase One of the Improve I-70 project, said the speed limit is now 55 miles per...
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...
