MoDOT recently unveiled its “325 Plan” for Missouri’s 34,000-mile network of bridges and highways the agency has been charged with building and maintaining. With $325 million available for this Herculean effort, the agency says it will only have funds to care for about 8,000 miles of interstate highways and heritage federal routes, including Highway 63. […]
Is it something in the water? Maybe it’s in the air we breathe. Perhaps it’s a mental defect, a misplaced gene or two. More than mere wisps of being contrarily stubborn, Missourians historically have refused to adequately fund their state’s basic transportation needs. How was it 60 years ago that our loathsome rival Kansas figured
Few were surprised when voters statewide rejected Amendment Seven that would have increased sales taxes three-fourths of 1 percent to fund a variety of transportation infrastructure improvements. So another year goes by, and nothing gets done. And another. And still another. And how many more after that? Voters balked the poorly devised amendment for a
