MoDOT Increasing Work During Shutdown (4-15-20)

MoDOT Increasing Work During Shutdown (4-15-20)

For the missouri department of transportation, they say with fewer cars out on the roads they're able to get more work done.

Kq2's ron johnson is live now at one of our area road projects with more on how they're taking advantage of the lighter traffic, ron?

Yeah that's right jodie here in st.

Joseph and across the state, overall traffic is down about 40 percent.

Many folks are staying home now due to covid-19.

The decrease in traffic making it possible now for modot to do more work in one day.

While they say that's an advantange during this time they also say they've never seen anything quite like it.

(sot ) the news isn't all good coming from modot as we've reported earlier they say they're still seeing a lot of exessive speeding across state roaways as well as distracted driving they say with everything going on it can be hard to keep focused on driving, but they urge drivers to do so.

Live in st.

Joseph ron johnson kq2 news.

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