On Thursday [MoDOT] commissioners will consider a proposal that the Missouri Department of Transportation help fund the project with nearly $800,000 in federal money.
McKenna and another commissioner wonder whether that would drain money from other projects around the state, such as bicycle paths and roadside beautification. . . .
This year the state received about $14 million in federal transportation enhancement funds, which cannot be used for building or repairing roads.
Since the federal program began in 1993, Kittrell said, 75 percent of the funds have been used for bicycle and pedestrian trails and 17 percent for beautification along highways. The rest has gone toward historic preservation, such as rehabilitating old train depots.
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