The project corridor includes Maguire Street from Young Street to Broad Street in Warrensburg, Missouri.
Rethink Maguire
CORRIDOR CONFIGURATIONS
The Maguire Street corridor is the highest-volume thoroughfare in the city with nearly 18,000 trips per day. Rethink Maguire aims to improve reliability, safety, and multimodal travel along the corridor.
Alongside the community, the team will evaluate potential repairs to several infrastructure assets along the corridor including an aging interchange bridge, an aging railroad overpass bridge, cracked pavement, and aging signs and traffic signals, among other placemaking initiatives including burying overhead utilities.
NORTH LINKS
The City has steadily invested in planning and roadway improvments from Cooper Boulevard to Broad Street to upgrade urban and rural transportation on the north side of the city. The interchange at U.S. 50 is being evaluated and would serve as the northern gateway into Warrensburg.
Parks, Connections, and Stormwater
Pedestrian and bicycling connections will be enhanced through the installation of a proposed 10-feet wide sidewalk along Maguire Street. This will provide more protection to pedestrians and bicyclists traveling the corridor. The sidewalk will connect to the new and existing infrastructure.
The persistent flooding occurring west of Maguire Street between Young Street and North Street is a consequence of unconnected stormwater infrastructure. Improving stormwater collection along Maguire Street and evaluating improvements to conveyance and storage west to Shepard Park provides a comprehensive analysis of stormwater management in this area.
CIty CONNECTIONS
Increased access for all residents of Warrensburg, especially those within low-income neighborhoods, is one of the primary goals of the project.
This means better infrastructure for providing critical transportation services for residents who do not have access to personal transportation and increased connectivity for residents who live south of U.S. 50 to jobs and necessities north of U.S. 50.
SOUTH GATEWAY
The Rethink Maguire project will encompass many improvements. One pillar throughout the study will be exploring opportunities for placemaking. Placemaking is a participatory process for shaping public spaces that harnesses the ideas and assets of the people who use it. The study team will be exploring opportunities to better improve transportation access to and from the University of Central Missouri Campus and opportunities to create spaces for all our community to enjoy.