The longtime Columbia of Chamber of Commerce president says the massive $240-million I-70 Rocheport bridge project is going well and is ahead of schedule.
Columbia Chamber president Matt McCormick spoke Saturday morning on 939 the Eagle’s “CEO Roundtable.”
“I just drove across it last night. The crazy thing about it is what’s there now is as wide as the old bridge that we were always using, and now they’re about to put a second piece to that. The great that they are doing, thinking ahead, is building that to where it can hold six lanes all the way across so it can be restriped for that,” Mr. McCormick says.
Missouri received an $81-million federal grant from the Trump administration for the project. It was the largest competitive grant ever received by the state Department of Transportation (MoDOT). Missouri Governor Mike Parson has told 939 the Eagle that the $81-million grant was crucial. He notes four-million trucks cross the aging bridge annually.
