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Missouri Road Conditions 'Sharply Improved'
Thursday, June 28, 2007
Elisa Crouch
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
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Missouri's highways are moving up the national ranks after years near the bottom, according to a report being released today.
The report from the Reason Foundation, a non-profit policy group based in Los Angeles, says Missouri "sharply improved" its pavement conditions from 2000 to 2005, at a time when highway officials were starting a construction blitz that repaired 2,200 miles of highway.
In 2000, the state's highways ranked 38th. Today's report puts the state at 17th.
Missouri has plans to fix or replace 800 bridges by 2012. The work, expected to cost $600 million, has been slowed by legal and financial snags. The department hopes to award the contract in October, spokesman Jeff Briggs said.
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