Group Wants Missouri Legislature to Designate Funding to Make I-70 Six Lanes
December 5, 2022 5:34AM CST
(MISSOURINET) – Missouri reportedly has an extra six-billion-dollars sitting in its bank account. Morgan Mundell (mun-DELL), with Missourians for Transportation Investment, says since Missouri’s cash flow is so positive, now is the time to widen Interstate-70 statewide to six total lanes. He says I-70 is an economic lifeline for this state.
Mundell says the price tag would be about 2.5 to three-billion-dollars. He says most of the money would have to come from the state because funding from the federal infrastructure law is wrapped up in Missouri’s five-year transportation improvement program.