Nicole Gutierrez

Photographer
 
Highway 54
Public Project
Highway 54
Copyright Nicole Gutierrez 2024
Updated Nov 2022
For about six months, I worked with photojournalist Margo Wagner to document the life of the people and towns along the shoulders of Highway 54. In addition to editing the project, I designed it for print publication. This project is evolving as Margo continues to photograph these communities.

In the northeast corner of Missouri, U.S. 54 narrows and slows at stop signs, traffic lights and near 90-degree turns. Laddonia, Farber, Vandalia, Curryville, Bowling Green and Louisiana are strung together by this road, which runs through their town centers past stores, churches, restaurants, soybean and softball fields. Stretching from El Paso, Texas, to Griggsville, Illinois, the highway is an essential tool for those who live and work along it.

For 20 years, the Highway 54 Coalition has been pushing for updates. This effort is finally paying off with the Missouri Department of Transportation setting aside $1 million to explore solutions to the undeveloped stretch of highway in their five-year Statewide Transportation Improvement Program.

View this story at the Columbia Missourian 
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