Published: 11/16/2025
The City of Columbia has partnered with CBB to conduct a Road Safety Audit (RSA) for the I-70 Business Loop between Stadium Boulevard to Eastland Circle as a part of the City’s Vision Zero program. This project’s goal is to improve road safety for the corridor, paying particular attention to collisions involving vulnerable road users […]
Continue ReadingPublished: 11/11/2025
A short segment of Business Loop 70 in Columbia is anticipated to close for two weeks starting in mid-November to complete roundabout construction. Local businesses will remain accessible, but through traffic will need to use an alternate route. Contractors working with the Missouri Department of Transportation plan to close Business Loop 70 between Hathman Plaza and Eastland […]
Continue ReadingPublished: 11/01/2025
The City Council recently held a work session to learn more about Tax Increment Financing (TIF) Districts and how they may help fund infrastructure improvements and economic development on the Business Loop. As we move forward with the City on our Corridor Planning Study (and the related Road Safety Audit), we are finding that decades […]
Continue ReadingPublished: 10/21/2025
On Monday night the Columbia City Council introduced an ordinance focused on pedestrian safety that would restrict pedestrian use of medians and traffic islands at intersections where the speed limit is 30 mph or more, average daily traffic is 15,000 or higher, or that are less than 6 foot wide. All intersections along the Business […]
Continue ReadingPublished: 09/09/2025
Now that the City's $2 million grant is finally, officially, 100% green-lighted, we're wasting no time getting started! Great River Engineering has been hired for the project and they're starting work this week. First step is surveying the street so they'll be bringing out the lasers and the drones to create an overview of the entire […]
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