http://www.modot.org/central/major_projects/Route63PublicHearingFeb09.htm (http://www.modot.org/central/major_projects/Route63PublicHearingFeb09.htm)
Comments:
* I'm not convinced of a great need to four lane this section yet. I could go for an improved two lane route with four lane ROW. I think four laning should be done after a few other projects such as bypasses for Macon, Hannibal, and Sedalia, or four laning routes such as US 65 from I-44 to US 54, US 54 from US 65 to where the current four lane ends west of Jefferson City, and the remaining two lane sections of US 50.
* I think it would be better to start with a bypass for Vichy rather than half a five lane section. Or is Missouri now trying to imitate Nebraska with breaks in in the expressways?
* MoDOT getting too cheap to do a proper diamond interchange at the southern end off the route around Vienna? See http://www.modot.org/central/major_projects/documents/Vienna_preferred_zoomed4WEB.PDF (http://www.modot.org/central/major_projects/documents/Vienna_preferred_zoomed4WEB.PDF) and http://www.modot.org/central/major_projects/documents/Vienna_preferred_zoomed_b4WEB.PDF (http://www.modot.org/central/major_projects/documents/Vienna_preferred_zoomed_b4WEB.PDF)