"Catch a Train, Catch a Game" Winners Announced

Just in time for the official start of summer, Tina Armstrong of St. Louis and Donald Steward of Linn Creek are the "Catch a Train, Catch a Game" grand prize winners, randomly selected from more than 8,300 entries. Winners

MoDOT Employee Bicycles Through Seven States to Honor Fallen Workers

MoDOT Maintenance Crew Leader Kris Sandgren, an avid bicyclist from Springfield, began a 2,600-mile bicycle journey recently to bring attention to the importance of work zone safety and raise money for a Missouri Fallen Workers' Memorial. Honor

Coalition Has New Face on the Web

New Highway Safety Website Can Help You Arrive Alive

The Missouri Coalition for Roadway Safety has a new face on the web. The newly redesigned site features eye-catching graphics, intriguing videos, news and information, driving tips and advice on how to Arrive Alive at your destination. Website

MoDOT Offers Free Overweight Permits to Move Grain

Floods Threaten Crops in Storage

MoDOT is helping farmers and producers salvage grain by issuing no-cost overweight permits to individuals moving grain out of flooded areas. However, the heavy loads are not allowed to use interstate routes. Permits

The HEAT is On this Summer

Campaign Will Kick Off With Interstate 70 Corridor Project June 25-26

State and local law enforcement officers all over the state are putting in extra time to make our roads safer in the height of travel season. The three-month "HEAT Is On" campaign will run June 21-Sept. 21 and will focus on impaired, speeding and unbuckled drivers. HEAT

MoDOT Distributes Safe Routes to School Grants

MoDOT's Safe Routes to School advisory committee has awarded 34 non-infrastructure grants totaling $582,000 to communities across the state. Safe Routes to School is a program of the Federal Highway Administration created in 2005. Grants

Volunteers Clean Up Missouri During Annual Trash Bash
Missouri volunteers stepped up to make Missouri a little more beautiful during the No MOre Trash! Bash 2010. The No MOre Trash! Bash is a month-long litter-prevention celebration that encourages people to clean up Missouri’s roads and streams. Thousands of people worked to pick up 128,000 bags of trash
throughout Missouri in April. Bash

All About a Roundabout
New Video Explains Benefits of Roundabouts

Learning how roundabouts work and why they're popping up everywhere is now easier than ever before! MoDOT has produced a new video called "All About a Roundabout." This video explains how to navigate a roundabout and why roundabouts are safer for the traveling public. Watch at modot.org

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