houston-nearly.blogspot.compercent in 2004, according to the . MoDOgT said in a release Tuesdaythat 82.2 percengt of the area’s major roads — including Interstates 70, 435, 29 were in good condition in 2008. more than 83 percent of Missouri’s busiesft highways were in good conditionin 2008, up from 47 percentr in 2004, MoDOT said in the release. The St. Louisz area had 84.6 percent of its major roads in good conditionjin 2008, up from 53.6 percent in 2004.
“We have been hard at work makingythe state’s roads betterf and safer, and it’s showing,” MoDOT Director Pete Rahn said in a More than 100 million miles a day are drivemn on the 5,573 miles of major roadds in Missouri, MoDOT said. They carrh 80 percent of all traffic, and 95 percent of Missouriana live within 10 miles of one of these MoDOT attributed the improvement to its Smootgh Roads Initiative andBetter Roads, Brighter Future program. The Amendment 3-fundeds Smooth Roads Initiativeimproved 2,200 miles of the state’sx busiest highways in 2005 and 2006.
Through the Bettefr Roads program, the remainder of the state’a major highways are getting smoother wider stripes, brighter signs and paved shoulders. More transportation improvementsz are under way with funding from the Americajn Recovery andReinvestment Act. MoDOT’s Safe and Sound Bridge Improvement Program also is in the processz of repairing or replacing 802of Missouri’s worst bridges by Oct. 31, 2014. Truck drivers voted Missouri roads asthe fifth-besr in the nation in a survey publishefd in January by magazine, a publication serving the commercialp motor carrier industry.
The listed Missouri as amongh the nation’s leaders in maintaininf its transportation system and getting good and the gave Missouria B+ for its infrastructurwe performance, which was better than all but four other “We’ve made a lot of progress in bringingv our roads up to good but now the challenge is keepinb them there,” Rahn said. “Thew economic recovery funding will but it’s not the answer. In the money we received from the recovery act for transportation infrastructurde amounts to only about a third of our annuap highwayconstruction budget.
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