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Roadbuilding

“The 325 Report” launched by Missouri DOT to provide updates on 34,000 miles of maintenance

The Missouri Department of Transportation (MoDOT) has created one website to provide updates on the state’s 325 System including road and bridge conditions, and project funding. The site is dubbed The 325 Report. The site gets its name from the MoDOT’s “325 System” plan, a strategy approved in February that focuses on maintenance of primary […]

April 28, 2015

Roadbuilding

Missouri DOT to pay fine, implement statewide compliance program to settle stormwater violations

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) reports the Missouri Department of Transportation (MoDOT) will pay a $750,000 fine and enact a compliance program as part of a consent decree to settle alleged Clean Water Act violations connected to two road building projects. In 2010 and 2011 officials with EPA’s Region 7 inspected construction sites at […]

April 10, 2015

Roadbuilding

Missouri commission awards $13 million in road and bridge contracts

The Missouri Highways and Transportation Commission has awarded 11 contracts totaling nearly $13 million for the 24-country Southeast District of the state, covering pavement repairs, overlays, intersection improvements, bridge replacement, and sidewalk improvements. These include: $107,808 contract was awarded to Fronabarger Concreters for concrete repairs on Interstate 55 from the Jefferson County line to Route 60 […]

April 6, 2015

Roadbuilding

Roberta Broeker named interim director of Missouri DOT

The Missouri Highways and Transportation Commission named Roberta Broeker interim director of the Missouri Department of Transportation (MoDOT), to temporarily succeed the retiring Dave Nichols. Broeker, currently MoDOT’s chief financial offer, will take over May 1 and serve until “sometime this fall” when MoDOT officials expect to have permanent director in place. “Roberta has the […]

April 3, 2015

Roadbuilding

Missouri DOT asks for pothole reports

With transition weather arriving (i.e., swings in temperatures from “warmish” to cold) the Missouri Department of Transportation (MoDOT) is asking for motorists to report pothole locations on state highways. Fluctuations in temperature are “pothole problematic” because melting snow and ice settle into cracks and refreeze, which can expand cracks and even raise portions of roadways […]

March 5, 2015

Roadbuilding

The 3 things needed right now to repair our nation’s bridges, according to 12 DOTs

The nation’s infrastructure system can be likened to an economic circulatory system – giving us freedom, opportunity and mobility—and this should not be taken for granted, said former Kansas Gov. Bill Graves during a recent infrastructure conference. “We should never undervalue the greatness and freedom our nation’s roads provide,” says Graves, now president and CEO […]

February 17, 2015

Roadbuilding

Historic Gasconade River Bridge on Route 66 to remain closed amid Missouri budget shortfalls

In a statement released Feb. 9, the Missouri Department of Transportation says it’s planning to keep closed “indefinitely” the outer road bridge over the Gasconade River near Hazelgreen due to a lack of funding to repair the bridge or build a new one. The bridge is 90 years old and is along the historic Route 66 corridor. The […]

February 10, 2015

Roadbuilding

Missouri approves budget-reduced road and bridge construction plan

The Missouri Highways and Transportation Commission has approved the Missouri Department of Transportation’s “325 System” plan, which will focus on maintenance rather than new construction for less than 25% of the states roads. The plan’s name comes from the figure MoDOT will have for construction in 2017—$325 million. Two years from now, the state will no longer […]

February 9, 2015

Roadbuilding

Missouri DOT uses work zone death to teach motorists about safety, garners award for efforts

After one of the agency’s own dies in a work zone crash, the Missouri DOT uses it to teach motorists about safety and garners award for its efforts.

July 2, 2014

Roadbuilding

The Last Word

Missouri DOT employee finds a new way of transportation — skydiving!

May 7, 2014

Roadbuilding

The Last Word

Missouri DOT employee finds a new way of transportation — skydiving!

May 7, 2014

Roadbuilding

The Last Word

Missouri DOT employee finds a new way of transportation — skydiving!

May 7, 2014