Another hiccup for Northwest Missouri's rural roads: the resurfacing project that was supposed to start shaking up the dirt on several low-volume routes today is hitting the brakes—again. MoDOT has announced that due to contractor schedule switches, the gears won't start turning until Monday, April 21.
For commuters and rural wanderers alike navigating Chariton and Randolph Counties, this means their usual paths will take a detour into inconvenience, with Route W being squeezed down to one lane where flaggers will play traffic conductors, like it or not, travelers should pencil in some extra time for their journeys.
The project stretches its arms to wrap around more than Chariton, touching on Carroll and Linn Counties with a total of 11 roads set to get a fresh coat by this October's end—weather being the boss of that timeline, of course.
Capital Paving and Construction LLC is partnering up with MoDOT to lay down the new surfaces, and all this is part of a larger picture where the Governor inked a deal adding a hefty $100 million for rural road improvements in the Fiscal Year 2025 budget, because roads are the veins that keep the heart of these communities beating, and they're putting the funds to work across nearly 2,000 lane miles at 149 spots that see less rubber but matter just as much.
