Local Control: MoDOT should turn over unfunded local roads to local governments--example: Gravois in STL | Show-Me Institute

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Instead of criticizing MoDOT for failing to spend money it does not have on slowing down a state highway, Saint Louis City should consider taking Gravois back from state control. That would give residents the freedom to transform the road as they see fit, if the city or citizens along Gravois are willing to pay for such improvements. It would also reduce MoDOT’s responsibilities, a useful precedent for a department in control of many highways (which it can’t afford to maintain) that would be local or county roads in other states.

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MoBikeFed comment: Turning over some of the more local-oriented roads out of the 34,000 miles on MoDOT's state system could be a good way to help the MoDOT funding situation and also simultaneously improve these roads for walking, bicycling, and transit.

When local governments and local neighborhoods have the say-so over road design, the results usually serve the local community better.