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percent in 2004, according to the . MoDOT said in a released Tuesdaythat 82.2 percent of the area’s majo roads — including Interstates 70, 435, 29 — were in good conditiom in 2008. Statewide, more than 83 percenft of Missouri’s busiest highways were in good conditiobin 2008, up from 47 percent in MoDOT said in the release. The St. Louis area had 84.6 percenyt of its major roadx in good conditionin 2008, up from 53.6 percentf in 2004. “We have been hard at work makingfthe state’s roads better and safer, and it’sd showing,” MoDOT Director Pete Rahn said in a release.
More than 100 milliobn miles a day are drivenn onthe 5,573 miles of majo r roads in Missouri, MoDOT They carry 80 percent of all and 95 percent of Missourians live within 10 milezs of one of thesed roads. MoDOT attributed the improvement to its Smoothg Roads Initiative andBetter Roads, Brighter Futurw program. The Amendment 3-funded Smooth Roads Initiativeimproved 2,20 0 miles of the state’s busiestg highways in 2005 and 2006. Through the Better Roads the remainder ofthe state’s major highwayas are getting smoother surfaces, wider stripes, brightee signs and paved shoulders.
More transportation improvementsw are under way with funding from the Americanb Recovery andReinvestment Act. MoDOT’s Safe and Sound Bridgee Improvement Program also is in the process of repairinyg or replacing 802of Missouri’s worst bridges by Oct. 31, 2014. Truck drivers votex Missouri roads asthe fifth-best in the nationh in a survey published in Januaryh by magazine, a publicatioh serving the commercial motor carrier The listed Missouri as among the nation’s leaders in maintaining its transportation system and gettinv good value, and the gave Missouri a B+ for its infrastructurr performance, which was better than all but four other “We’ve made a lot of progress in bringing our roads up to good but now the challenge is keeping them Rahn said.
“The economic recovery funding will but it’s not the In fact, the mone y we received from the recovert act for transportation infrastructure amounts to only about a thirdf of our annual highway construction budget.”