The Moscow Mills Mayor is calling for action three months after several crashes along Highway 40-61.
Michael Clynch says it’s been 90 days since he met with state and local officials at the MoDOT Headquarters and still no changes have been made to improve the roadway.
“I was beginning to ask questions regarding are we moving forward with the process? Are there things going on? I’d heard little hints that things were happening but I had never received the information directly so I decided today that I wanted to send an email out and follow up and find out what’s going to happen,” said, Clynch.
MoDOT says the busy roadway has seen 19 fatal crashes in 10 years.
The latest victims were a mom and her two young daughters near Wentzville in January.
Clynch says his main mission is to improve the safety of the corridor along Highway 61 between the intersections of Interstate 70 in Wentzville to north of Troy at Highway KK.
This stretch is handled by MoDOT.
He and other city leaders are pushing for the safety upgrades to include more cable barriers, and altering J turns that make oncoming traffic hard to detect.
Almost 40,000 cars travel along this stretch daily and that number is growing. Clynch says anything that would help at this point is needed.
“It’s the overall safety of the corridor, the short term is to make it safer, the long term is to bring this all up to what we believe to be interstate great”.
A MoDOT spokesperson says they spent the last three months reviewing and analyzing traffic crash data and they will meet with local elected officials and emergency responders sometime in May to go over a plan.
