transportation

Missouri’s third-largest city had 128 traffic deaths from 2019 through 2023. Now, Springfield city leaders are looking at an approach called Vision Zero in hopes of eliminating car crash fatalities by 2040.

Dozens of residents met up on Tuesday evening to learn more about city plans to widen out a major road in southeast Springfield's Galloway neighborhood.

Missouri transportation officials are planning to spend millions of dollars upgrading East Sunshine Street. But the plan has area businesses worried.

Phase 1 cost roughly $15.7 million and had been predicted to be complete by fall of 2023. Eighty percent of the funding was federal, while Greene County and the City of Springfield shared other costs.

The city is asking the public to participate in online open houses to help chart the future of portions of NN, South 3rd Street and South Street.

When Missouri Gov. Mike Parson visited Springfield on Thursday, he pushed back on critics who say improvements to Interstate 70 are being funded at the expense of Interstate 44.

Funding to fix Springfield’s Jefferson Avenue Footbridge has been elusive — until now.

Springfield City Council voted 7-to-1 to delay a state plan to put medians along East Sunshine Street, after businesses in the area balked at the idea of more regulation on car traffic.

This segment of KSMU's Sense of Community series covering Springfield's comprehensive plan, ForwardSGF, takes a deeper look into transportation and mobility.

Our Sense of Community series on the City of Springfield's comprehensive plan, Forward SGF, looks at some of the goals identified within the plan's five core elements. This episode explores efforts by Ozark Greenways to massively expand its trail network.