Major Highway Projects

MoDOT proposes two flyover ramps for the intersection to ease congestion; the department estimates that the two highways, in some places near the intersection, carry more than 35,000 vehicles per day.

Completion date: 2012

Cost estimate: $65 million

Funding source: Missouri Department of Transportation

Click here to see a rendering of the 60/65 interchange.

National Avenue corridor

The city plans to make upgrades to the intersections of National Avenue and Seminole and Grand streets, to go along with the ongoing improvements at National and Primrose Street.

Completion date: November 2009

Cost estimate: $2.75 million

Funding source: Springfield’s quarter-cent capital improvements sales tax

Sunshine Street corridor

The city plans to upgrade Sunshine Street at Fort and Fremont avenues, adding left- and right-turn lanes.

Completion date: October 2009

Cost estimate: $2 million

Funding source: Springfield’s quarter-cent capital improvements sales tax

Campbell Avenue and Weaver Road

The county, with help from the city, is planning to relocate this intersection several hundred feet to the north to improve visibility and safety.

Completion date: Summer 2009

Cost estimate: $6 million

Funding source: Springfield and Greene County partnership

Other 1/4-cent sales tax projects:

• Cherry Street – third lane between Glenstone and Grandview avenues

• Mount Vernon Street and West Bypass intersection improvements

• Division Street – third lane between Glenstone Avenue and U.S. Highway 65

• Packer Road and Division Street intersection improvements

• Commercial Street streetscape improvements