Yes, this is truely another amazing idea from our honored Missouri Department of Transportation. Why don’t they take the money spent on these signs, clocks and electric and put the money into the huge pot holes on the enterance ramp from Berry Road to East bound highway 44?

That may be to much to ask? Fix the pot holes? What will us tax payers want next, clean the debris from the highways?

Y2K Traffic

wait, there has been a mix up. apparently the timers are not going to be located on westbound Highway 40 near Kingshighway, southbound Interstate 170, nor at eastbound Highway 40 near Interstate 270. the deal fell through when a trio of real estate brokers implored MODOT to move the signs to Central location in downtown Clayton, for the good of the city.

Centene declined to comment.

electricity + maintanence= our tax dollars being wasted….YET AGAIN! If you can’t find ANYTHING worthwile to spend money on….what about a state rebate check?! (HAHAHA, yeah I know…..a gal can dream though!;)) Or heres a thought…..lower the tax rate on gasoline to create less of a burden on all of us! Amazing how our political crew can delegate where our money goes and we have absolutely no say in it.

Besides being a distraction, the signs are another waste of tax dollars which could be better spent on overtime to keep the crews working overtime, if necessary, to get this miserable project finished. Speaking of waste…any clues on why the bridge on Highland Terrace and another one west of Highland were replaced. Both are bridges to nowhere…just a convenience for a precious few residents to they don’t have to use Big Bend. I should know…I lived in that area for 16 years and never saw another car using those bridges (unless you went Little Flower church). Shame on MoDot and the lobbyists once again.

Although I don’t mind the sign, it didn’t have to be a digital clock? I agree that the money could be used somewhere else.

However, the point about how it’s a waste because you don’t even use “that” highway is ridiculous. This seems like a common thought in the st louis region. Why build something downtown when I live in west county? Why build something anywhere in west county with state money when I live in Clayton? Come on! Things get done slow enough around here without that argument!

I’m pretty sure those signs are powered by solar panels. And the timers were not at all confusing in there original format. I guess it took too much effort for some drivers to look above each group of numbers to see what they meant. But that doesn’t surprise me given the amount of griping about the project as a whole. Anyone that drives that stretch of 40 and has seen the new 170 interchanges should appreciate that improvement already. But I guess bringing that up will bring on the whining about how you can’t get on N. 170 from Eager anymore.

LOL at all the whiners. First of all, asking the government to be effcient is like asking the sun not to come up. Second, Having the signs count down is a reminder of the job which needs to be done. Such a countdown helps to serve the greater purpose. Manufacturing makes use of counters and such that are visible for everyone to see so all know what is going on. I am sure MODOT had a kaizen event to understand the concept. If you really think this type of idea is crappy well Toyota makes use of similar ideas and last I checked they lead both quality and sales.

Of course, I will toss all I typed out the window because being MODOT there is no way logical thinking went into the idea of the clocks however positive the idea could be.

If you want to see a great waste of our money, drive 270 south from I-44. Modot is installing 60MPH signs on just about every post that is standing on both sides of the road. These are not painted signs, but complex, lighted, 60PH signs, that only about 1 in a hundred drivers, and NO TRACTOR TRAILERS

Talk about wasted money! look for the lighted 60MPH signs being installed south of I-44, on just about every pole available on both east and west bound lanes! About 1 in a hundred drivers, and NO TRACTOR TRAILERS will pay attention to them, or probably see them, but taxpayers are sure going to pay for them along with the dumb 1/4 mile markers along every state Hy, because someone thought drivers didn’t know where they were at times! Lower the gas tax, or fix the roads, but we sure don’t need anymore signs on the highways!