Mid-Missouri drivers, brace yourselves for the slew of roadworks and highway maintenance projects slated between February 3 and 9, as detailed by the Missouri Department of Transportation (MoDOT). According to MoDOT's latest update, a spread of operations ranging from pothole patching, brush cutting, to pavement repairs is set to sweep various counties, with potential delays due to lane closures - that's if Mother Nature decides to play nice and the weather holds up.
For Boone County residents, U.S. Route 63 remains a construction zone under the Improve I-70 program, enduring bridge construction between the Broadway overpass and Conley Road underpass in Columbia, maintaining a head-to-head traffic pattern with narrowed lanes and slower speeds expected to last through late 2025, Interstate 70 is also undergoing new pavement construction stretching from Route B (Paris Road) to U.S. Route 63 through January 2027, so expect a mix of intermittent and prolonged lane closures there, MoDOT warns.
Traveling through Callaway County offers no respite, with culvert replacements along Route A causing closures between County Road 153 to County Road 154 on Feb. 5 – 6, and from County Road 1011 to County Road 1006 on Feb. 7, from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. daily. I-70's pavement project also extends to nearby Kingdom City, ongoing until a personified end date which we can't quite fathom just yet.
Meanwhile, inspections and repairs are the name of the game in Cole, Cooper, and Crawford Counties with scheduled checks on U.S. Route 54's Moreau River Bridge and I-70’s Missouri River Bridge at Rocheport, not to mention pavement repairs on I-44 and roadside work on various state routes – all likely to nudge the needle of your speedometer towards the lower end.
