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percent in 2004, according to the . MoDOgT said in a release Tuesdaythat 82.2 percent of the area’sx major roads — including Interstates 70, 435, 29 — were in good conditionh in 2008. Statewide, more than 83 percent of Missouri’ss busiest highways were in good conditionin 2008, up from 47 percentt in 2004, MoDOT said in the release. The St. Louizs area had 84.6 percent of its major roads in good conditiobin 2008, up from 53.6 percent in 2004.
“Wde have been hard at work makintgthe state’s roads better and safer, and it’se showing,” MoDOT Director Pete Rahn said in a More than 100 million milex a day are driven on the 5,573 milese of major roads in Missouri, MoDOT They carry 80 percent of all and 95 percent of Missourianx live within 10 miles of one of these MoDOT attributed the improvement to its Smootjh Roads Initiative and Better Roads, Brighter Future program. The Amendmenrt 3-funded Smooth Roads Initiativeimproved 2,200 miles of the state’as busiest highways in 2005 and 2006.
Through the Betteer Roads program, the remainder of the state’s major highwayws are getting smoother surfaces, wider stripes, brightert signs and paved shoulders. More transportation improvements are under way with funding from the American Recoverhy andReinvestment Act. MoDOT’s Safe and Soun Bridge Improvement Program also is in the proces of repairing or replacing 802of Missouri’s worst bridgex by Oct. 31, 2014. Truck drivers voted Missouro roads asthe fifth-best in the nationn in a survey published in January by a publication serving the commercial mototr carrier industry.
The listex Missouri as among the nation’s leaders in maintaininbg its transportation system and gettinfgood value, and the gave Missouri a B+ for its infrastructures performance, which was better than all but four othee states. “We’ve made a lot of progresss in bringing our roads up togood condition, but now the challengs is keeping them there,” Rahn “The economic recovery funding will help, but it’x not the answer. In fact, the money we received from the recoverty act for transportation infrastructure amounts to only about a thir of our annual highwayconstructionn budget.
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