COLUMBIA – The Missouri Office of Transportation hosted an open home party at the Action Recreation Heart in Columbia, Thursday evening.
At the open up household they propped up poster boards for I-70 renovation ideas for all of Boone County.
Even so, there was persistently a group surrounding the a few poster boards, each individual depicting the renovation tips at the I-70/Highway 63 connector.
There has been a major problem in Columbia about the connector. In accordance to info furnished from MoDOT, the location is a “hot location for pedestrian deaths”.
Brandi Baldwin, a challenge director with MoDOT, reported that public input is vital all through the renovation selection process.
“It is really extremely significant to us to get the opinions from the community on the venture,” Brandi mentioned. “We want to see what is important to them and what they’d like to see out of our tasks.”
“Our funding supply is from our point out funds, but we also get a federal match on that,” Baldwin reported. “So our federal match for interstate tasks is typically 90% federal and 10% condition.”
Baldwin also laid out the timeline for the renovation method for the I-70/63 connector.
“Which is actually scheduled in our fiscal yr 2023, and we are moving ahead with a design establish procurement process,” Baldwin reported. “So we strategy to wrap up this environmental research by the close of this yr, and then launch an RFP (request for proposal) to style and design builders by about June of following calendar year.”
JR Richardson attended the open property right now. Richardson life east of Columbia, which has been a difficulty for him.
“The website traffic is always backed up,” Richardson stated. “So we need to have to get at the very least a few lanes as a result of Columbia to pace up the site visitors or preserve the site visitors transferring about Columbia.”
If you missed the meeting but would like to deliver comments, you can still do so on MoDOT’s web page, or simply click this website link.