House Speaker Takes Wait See Approach To I-70 Expansion

The Missouri House and Senate could go head-to-head on two different proposed plans intended to widen Interstate-70. The Senate Appropriations Committee wants to spend 2.8-billion-dollars to widen the roadway to at least three lanes in both directions from Blue Springs near Kansas City to Wentzville near St. Louis. The House backs the governor’s request to designate 859-million-dollars to expand the interstate to three lanes in both directions around St. Louis, Kansas City and Columbia. House Speaker Dean Plocher (plocker) wants to take a wait and see approach on which direction to go…

Plocher wants the Senate to consider the House’s proposed ballot measure that would put the Missouri Legislature in charge of MoDOT’s funding.

(From Missourinet)