Labor hours have been an issue for the Missouri Department of Transportation. However, the department is gaining more employees than lost for the first time in over a decade, but there is still more work to be done. MoDOT Director, Patrick McKenna, joins Marshall...
Missouri has set aside $2.8 billion to expand Interstate 70 to six lanes across the state, from Kansas City to St. Louis. But none of that money is coming from the federal infrastructure law signed by President Biden two years ago. Patrick McKenna, Director of the...
Just as Christmas shopping begins, parts of Missouri could see their first snowfall of the season. The National Weather Service is predicting a light snow mix late Saturday into Sunday along and north of I-70. It’s also expected to be a heavy, wet snow, but little to...
The Missouri Department of Transportation continues battling staffing shortages as winter approaches. MoDOT Director Patrick McKenna told Missourinet affiliate KFRU in Columbia that the agency will have its hands full if this winter is severe or if there’s a big...
Missouri’s public transportation options cannot keep up with demand. A 2022 assessment study says that 2,000 transit vehicles – operated by 4,500 workers – transport 156,000 bus riders daily in Missouri. During this week’s State of Transit meeting Kim Cella, Executive...
