Cape Girardeau County road board to conduct survey about county roads

The Cape Girardeau County Road and Bridge Advisory board will soon be soliciting input from those who most frequently travel county roads. The board plans to distribute surveys to county highway employees, school bus drivers, volunteer firefighters and other groups asking them to rank the three top concerns they have regarding road conditions that may hamper driver safety.

Larry Payne with the highway board said the input will help improve roads within the county.

"It will help us get from where we are now to where we need to be," he said.

Payne said the people surveyed are the ones with the most intimate knowledge of the county roads and problems they may present, including blind hills, curves and intersections.

Payne did not know when the surveys would be distributed. He said he did not plan to mail them but deliver them to the various agencies himself.

At Thursday's Cape Girardeau County Commission meeting, commissioners Paul Koeper and Jay Purcell gave their support to the idea. Presiding Commissioner Gerald Jones was not present.

At the suggestion of Purcell, the survey was put on the county's website.

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