Did MoDOTs public outreach efforts include the full range of stakeholders?
According to MoDOT officials, the Blanchette Bridge project successfully reached and involved a full range of stakeholders. It started with an Action Team headed by the Area Engineer in District Six and with the North St. Louis County Area Engineer and the Senior Public Affairs Specialist who scoped out the potentially impacted populations, listed their key issues as part of a planning matrix, and identified the organizations representing those constituencies. The Action Team used a variety of community relations techniques to gain involvement. One communications tool that was not available at the time but is now used very effectively by MoDOT is the Internet. MoDOT was not able to use minority owned, community-based, or special interest (e.g. travel or good movement) media.
