Recent Streetsblog USA posts about MIssouri

Nearly Half of TIGER Award Money Goes to Roads, 29 Percent For Transit

By Tanya Snyder | Dec 15, 2011 | 4 Comments

If you live in Stamford, Connecticut and your walk to the train station gets safer next year, you can thank USDOT’s TIGER grant program. Or when your hometown of American Falls, Idaho suddenly gets complete streets downtown, accommodating people on foot, on bikes, on buses, in cars, and in wheelchairs, encouraging local shopping. Or when […]

NTSB: States Should Ban Hands-Free Calls While Driving

By Tanya Snyder | Dec 15, 2011 | 27 Comments

In Missouri last year, a 19-year-old driving a pickup at 55 mph sent or received 11 texts in the 11 minutes immediately before he caused a deadly crash. The ensuing collision killed the texting driver as well as a 15-year-old student who was on a high-school band trip to the Six Flags amusement park in […]

Engineering Insanity on Display: The Diverging Diamond Interchange

By Angie Schmitt | Nov 11, 2011 | 2 Comments

Charles Marohn is the critic the transportation engineering field desperately needs. Over and over again, this former traffic engineer and head of the engineering reform nonprofit Strong Towns has made himself the voice of reason to a field gone mad on automobiles. His latest coup is a sardonic verbal takedown of a nightmare “complete street” interchange that […]

Missouri, Welcome to the Era of the Broke State DOT

By Angie Schmitt | Jun 6, 2011 | 5 Comments

Word went out in a press release early last month: The Missouri Department of Transportation would be eliminating 1,200 jobs, closing 135 facilities and selling 740 pieces of equipment. “This is about survival,” said MoDOT spokesman Jorma Duran. “This is about making sure our roads and bridges continue to be maintained and operable.” Drastic times […]