Fresh off new numbers released last month at the Missouri 2024 Highway Safety and Traffic Conference in Columbia, Jon Nelson, the State Highway Safety and Traffic Engineer for MoDOT joined the show and was encouraged by some good numbers over the last year. For...
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...
A groundbreaking ceremony was held today to celebrate the start of construction for the Improve I-70 project, which will widen the interstate to at least three lanes each in both directions from the St. Louis to Kansas City regions. Construction on the $2.8 billion...
