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Mapping Missouri's transportation future

Take the Funding Allocation Challenge!

The Missouri Department of Transportation has announced a new virtual online game to provide feedback on how the Aagency should spend its transportation dollars. A virtual MoDOT Director Pete Rahn walks players through the interactive exercise of allocating funding to various transportation needs. The game challenges players to distribute money for the state's roads and briges, as well as the other transportation modes -- aviation,
waterways, public transportation, rail and bicycle/pedestrian paths.

Those of you who live in Missouri should take the challenge, then let MoDOT know how it should spend your money.

As an Illinois resident who sometimes use Missouri roads, I would like to see Missouri spend a bit more money fixing its existing road. One of the reasons I don't do the Cycle Across Missouri ride often is because Missouri has the worst rural roads I've encountered on my weeklong trips.

While I'm at it, MoDOT also should scrap its ridiculous proposal to charge tolls for the proposed Mississippi River bridge that would link St. Louis and Illinois. I do find it interesting that MoDOT came out with the toll proposal for the Mississippi River project, but it didn't float a similar proposal for Route 364, which crosses the Missouri River and links St. Louis and St. Charles counties.

Roger 0 comments 1:15 PM