Columbia traffic will be impacted by MU and CPS students returning
COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ)
Columbia Public Schools and University of Missouri students will return to the classroom Tuesday, meaning traffic in and around Columbia will pick up.
CPS elementary students will return to school in-person four days per week, and middle and high school students will return two days per week.
MU students were already moving in Monday evening. Cars lined roads on campus with their flashers on while students unpacked.
Kyle Green with the Missouri State Highway Patrol said on Monday troopers were patrolling I-70 and U.S. 63 more frequently in anticipation of MU students returning.
The Bristol Township school board plans to spend up to $53.9 million on renovations to the now-closed Benjamin Franklin Middle School.
This cost is $33.4 million more than was expected to be spent to renovate the school on Mill Creek Road in Levittown when the district unveiled The District Plan for 21st Century Excellence, back in the 2012-13 school year. At that time, the work timeframe was to be completed by 2016.
The board voted unanimously for the project at its November meeting and held a hearing in December. Public comment closed Wednesday.
Asked why the school renovations have been delayed and are now costing more than twice the original estimate, Joshua Sweigard, district business manager, said only in an email response: