The I-70 Plan
Columbia Tribune – What’s not to like? Separate lanes for trucks is the best basic design possible for interstate highway traffic.
All of us have traveled on four-lane roads with trucks limited to the two right-hand lanes. Even when the lanes are not separated, the safety and convenience of trucks-only lanes are great. The Interstate 70 plan unveiled recently by the Missouri Department of Transportation has four truck lanes in the middle - two each way - divided by a concrete barrier and two auto lanes each way on the outside separated from the truck lanes by grass medians.
Read Columbia Tribune Column by Hank J. Waters III
Meeting Looks At Transportation Needs
Southeast Missourian
– A map of Missouri bled red Tuesday after community leaders circled
ports they would like to see updated, roads they want extended, and
sites where they say transit facilities are needed.
The map will be used by Delta Regional Authority officials, who are in the process of developing a 20-year strategic plan. They will present policy recommendations to Congress this summer, and a final plan is expected to be complete by January 2009.
"We need a facility in the worst way," said Shirley Allen with the Mississippi County Transit System. She and Shirley Tarwater, who works on the Missouri Department of Transportation's transit staff, highlighted four areas where they would like to see a transit facility, including East Prairie, Mo., and Dexter, Mo. The facility would provide housing for vehicles and a location for routine maintenance.
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