City(ies), County(ies), State:
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This project is within Jackson County, Missouri, and touches the cities of Blue Springs, Grain Valley and Oak Grove.
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Supplementary Project Mode(s):
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* Freight
* Highway/Roadway )
This project will extend the third lane from MO 7 in Blue Springs to Rt. F in Oak Grove. This project will help alleviate congestion points in the corridor, improving vehicular flow and safety for travelers in single occupancy vehicles, carpools or vanpools. I-70 is also a Tier 1 roadway in the statewide freight plan and 31.5 to 46.5 million tons of freight move along I-70 each year. This improvement will help freight move along this portion of the interstate corridor in a more efficient manner. There is no transit in this project corridor. However, additional capacity would support future transit services. Non-motorized modes are incompatible with high speed low access interstate travel, and not encouraged in the right-of-way.
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Scope: |
When traveling on I-70, the third lane begins and ends at the MO 7 interchange. Traffic has increased in the project area steadily. I-70 has an Average Daily Traffic Volume of 65,508 east of MO 7. Data shows that I-70 carries approximately 20,000 trucks per day, and state wide, trucks on I-70 transport between 31.5 to 46.5 million tons of freight each year. This project is part of the National Highway Freight Network Routes as a Primary Highway Freight system Route.
This section of interstate ranks as 16th in MoDOT’s congestion and safety matrix. Since this project is forecasted for 2030-2040, the range of solutions for this project are less defined. Additional capacity is needed, but other options that may include peak hour bus-on-shoulder or auxiliary lanes to accommodate the high volume of large trucks in the project corridor could also be added to the scope as the transportation system evolves over the next decade.
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