100+ Applications in for MODOT's Cost Share Program - bike/ped project funding in high demand - Ozarks First

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The Missouri Transportation Department hopes to decide by the end of September which projects will be awarded funding through its cost share program.

MODOT Director Patrick McKenna tells Missourinet more than 100 applications have been submitted for the Missouri Moves program, which would allow local governments to split with the state the cost of local infrastructure projects. More than $72 million in funding requests have been made, which surpasses the $20 million put into the program by the legislature and Governor Jay Nixon. . . .

Two-thirds of the program's funding will go to road and bridge work, with the rest to things like pedestrian and bicycle paths.

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100+ Applications in for MODOT's Cost Share Program - bike/ped project funding in high demand - Ozarks First

MoBikeFed comment: This "MoDOT Moves" Cost Share program, funded by the Missouri General Assembly for $20 million, is the first state transportation funding in Missouri's recent history that can be used for both road and highway projects as well as multi-modal projects such as transit, rail, ports, airports, bicycling, and walking.

At the recent Missouri Active Transportation Summit, MoDOT leaders indicated to us that a very good number of bicycle and pedestrian projects were submitted--projects that dealt only with bicycling or walking as well as a good number of projects that include bicycle and pedestrian accessibility within a road or highway project.

We are very pleased to see the high demand for this type of funding. We will need to be ready to defend this funding if it is to continue in 2017 and beyond.