MoDOT, in all it's wonderful glory.

[DAN-MAN]

Does anybody else in here live in Missouri? If so, have you noticed how MoDOT is? My mom is currently raising hell with them (go get'em mom!). There is a stretch of U.S. 67 highway that is where her office is located and it's very dangerous. There are several "dips", low spots where if a car was, you wouldn't be able to see it. (I should know this, I had a wreck last year with the same situation.) Well, my mom is asking MoDOT to put up some signs saying that the road is dangerous and she wants the speed limit reduced. MoDOT has said that they plan to do a 5 week study to see what the effects of that would be. I say they're full of crap myself. Earlier this year they raised the speed limit from 55 to 60, making this stretch even more dangerous. We've also had to fatal wrecks too. It would seem to me that MoDOT doesn't care about the situation. They're more concerned about taking the tax payer's money and putting it in they're pockets. They spend it every year on worthless projects that nobody could care about.

I've got a couple of articles that the local newspaper made about the meetings my mom's had and what other people on the stretch had to say. I'll try to scan them and post them in the next few days.

Thanks for listening to me. I guess I'm just pissed about this because MoDOT thinks they're bigger than others and can do whatever they want.

Dan.