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Mid-Missouri getting more transportation stimulus bucks

Traffic backs up in all directions at the intersection of Missouri Boulevard and Missouri 179. The chokepoint is the target of funding included in the federal stimulus package. (Julie Smith/News Tribune photo)

By Bob Watson bwatson@newstribune.com 
Published: Wednesday, March 11, 2009 3:48 PM CDT
Creating less congestion at the U.S. 50/Missouri 179/Missouri Boulevard interchange in Jefferson City, $6.5 million. Widening Route OO in Holts Summit, $893,000. And adding shoulders along Route C from Russellville to Versailles, $2.461 million.

Those are among the new projects the state Transportation Department announced Tuesday that it plans to do with money from the federal stimulus package.

Read details in our e-Edition See Wednesday's FRONT PAGE.






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boscoe wrote on Mar 21, 2009 12:57 PM:

" They need to rip out that 179/Mo Blvd/Hwy50 intersection and put in a huge mother of all round-abouts. Just think of a roundabout that is a half mile in diameter that has 8 lanes of traffic! That would solve all the problems there.

Then put in another huge roundabout down at the Tri-Level. "

Goat Daddy wrote on Mar 21, 2009 2:42 AM:

" Think of all the money we would have saved if we had never built that 179 extension. Now we have to pay more money to fix the intersection because there's too much traffic there. Doesn't that tell you something?

You keep building these roads, and more and more people will drive on them, and then what do you have? I'll tell you: more and more congestion and then you got to spend more and more money to fix the congestion.

What's wrong with this picture? "

waitingontheend wrote on Mar 12, 2009 10:06 AM:

" What you need is cameras because the congestion occurs when you have to sit through a light several times because idiots run the red lights and then your light turns yellow. I could honestly say that every single time I go through that area several cars run lights at each stop. "


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