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Aug. 7, 2019Maryville, MO |  By: John Coffey

MO Highways & Transportation Commission Meeting held at Mozingo

The Missouri Highways and Transportation Commission held their August meeting at the Mozingo Lake Recreation Park Conference Center this morning.

Commissioner Terry Ecker, a farmer from Elmo, played a role in getting the Commission meeting to Nodaway County. Ecker says the commissioners had a chance to tour several of the county's roads Tuesday prior to the meeting.

"On 46 Highway, there's 3 or 4 bridges that are going to get replaced with the governor's Bridge Program.  We looked at those as discussed at the meeting. We traveled some lettered routes.  Some of us Commissioners feel like in northern Missouri, our lettered routes are in a lot worse shape than some other parts of state due to weather conditions, and soils, and the heavy agricultural use of those roads.  So I wanted to get them to see first hand that."

One issue addressed during the meeting was the current condition of Missouri's low-volume roads. Chair of the Commission, Michael Pace of West Plains, says MoDOT is attempting to improve those roadways the best they can.

"We are, all be it, slow.  We are taking some remedial actions to improve these low-volume roads.  We understand the importance of them, but it just takes, number one, time to get it done, but primarily it takes the funding to get it done.  We're only able to do what we have money to do with.  So that's where we are.  Low-volume roads is paramount.  We hear it.  I hear it all over the state."

The Missouri Highways and Transportation Commission also heard presentations from Maryville City Manager Greg McDanel on the city's South Main Improvement Project and Nodaway County Commissioner Bob Steins on the county's bridge replacement project