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Thursday, September 6, 2012

Missouri Route 109 Widening: Wildwood Residents React

Part 2 of 2: Wildwood residents who live or travel on Missouri Route 109 voiced feedback and asked questions at a Wednesday open house at city hall regarding the widening of a portion of the roadway used by 20,000 drivers daily.

Kristin and Mark Stinnett with their fingers traced a dotted line that went through their backyard on one of the enlarged maps portrayed at Wednesday's open house regarding future construction for Missouri Route 109 in Wildwood. The Stinnetts live in Hickory Manor Village Subdivision, on Hickory Forest Street, which backs up to Pond-Grover Loop Road. It turns out the dotted line was merely the designated right-of-way line, which relieved them. Read prior article regarding the extent of the Missouri Route 109 project designed to improve safety and traffic flow between Missouri Route 100 and Clayton Road: Missouri Route 109 Widening: What's the Plan? "We came to find out the timeline of the project, which will affect us, regarding how to get…

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City of Wildwood and Missouri Route 109 Widening: What's the Plan?

Chris Weber

5:18 pm on Thursday, September 6, 2012

The sad is is that years ago, MODOT tried to make it an improved outer road which would have cost a lot less and would have been less of a traffic impact. This was shot down by public vote.   more ›

Missouri Route 109 Widening: What's the Plan?

Part 1 of 2: Wildwood and Missouri Department of Transportation officials hosted an open house Wednesday at Wildwood City Hall to gather feedback regarding major plans that include increasing Route 109 from two to four lanes in future.

Authorities indicate the stretch of roadway on Missouri Route 109 between Missouri Route 100 and Clayton Road historically has the most number of crashes annually within Wildwood's borders. A proposed, major highway construction project was designed to improve the safety and flow of traffic there, but many Wildwood residents questioned whether a recommended two-lane roundabout was the right way to go at Wednesday evening's open house about the project hosted from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. "The accident rate on this stretch is about twice that of other similar roads in Missouri, and twice what we like to see," said Missouri Department of Transportation area engineer Michelle Voegele, at the open house. Approximately 20,000 vehicles travel through …

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City of Wildwood, Lafayette High School, and Missouri Route 109 Widening: Wildwood Residents React

Dan Busse

7:56 pm on Wednesday, December 19, 2012

I agree. Hey MODOT engineers, show me stats where a stretch of highway with a higher than normal accident rate DROPPED because of the incorporation of a new roundabout. Don is right. They'll be ripping these out in a few years. MAYBE the stats are because that piece of highway is right along the high school, which has a preponderance of INEXPERIENCED DRIVERS. How many millions did we spend on the…   more ›

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