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12.02.2009 5:11 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Lambert-St. Louis International Airport officials will overhaul the notoriously confusing array of road signs between Interstate 70 and the airport terminals.

Beginning in January, Lambert crews will install 75 overhead and ground-based signs that are aimed at making it simpler to…

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11.19.2009 11:30 am
St. Louis Post-Dispatch

The Big Bend Boulevard bridge over Highway 40 opened a short time ago.

MoDOT and St. Louis County hosted a ribbon cutting event earlier today, but had to wait for St. Louis County crews to restripe the pavement.

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11.17.2009 4:26 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Metro is getting ready to replace the crumbling bridge that carries MetroLink tracks over Vandeventer Boulevard in St. Louis.

What the Vandeventer bridge will look like. RENDERING COURTESY OF METRO.

What the Vandeventer bridge will look like. RENDERING COURTESY OF METRO.

The $5 million replacement project will require shutting MetroLink in that section for about…

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11.17.2009 11:00 am
St. Louis Post-Dispatch

 

Popular Science magazine named Missouri’s first diverging diamond interchange in Springfield one of the 100 top innovations of the year.

The interchange is the model for one, above, that is planned at Interstate 270 and Dorsett Road in Maryland Heights.

The Springfield, Mo., interchange opened in…

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11.06.2009 7:31 am
St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Highway 40 (Interstate 64) will reopen to the public Dec. 7 — a month early and under budget, officials said this morning.

The Missouri Department of Transportation made the announcement at a 9:30 a.m. news conference to announce the reopening of…

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11.05.2009 10:34 am
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Charlie Dooley

Charlie Dooley

The federal government has allocated $20 million in federal stimulus money for constructing a road connecting the Maryland Heights Expressway and a relocated Highway 141 in Maryland Heights and Chesterfield, St. Louis County Executive Charlie Dooley announced on Wednesday.

The Federal…

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11.04.2009 12:47 am
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Robert Baer

Robert Baer

If the region started now to plan for the next MetroLink expansion, eight years may pass before the new segment opens, Metro officials say.

And under questioning from from St. Louis County Councilman Greg Quinn, R-Ballwin, Metro President Robert Baer said it…

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10.29.2009 5:01 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch

The soggy late-October weather isn’t expected to cause the reopening of Highway 40 to slide past the end-of-year deadline, said Lesley Hoffarth, project director for the Missouri Department of Transportation. But there’s a pretty good chance some work will spill over until next…

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10.29.2009 9:28 am
St. Louis Post-Dispatch

The Hanley-Eager Road intersection, one of the area’s most notorious traffic chokepoints, will get a new look - one that transportation officials hope will keep traffic moving.

Missouri transportation officials and St. Louis County leaders will be on hand this morning…

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10.22.2009 3:54 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
The new Mississippi River Bridge may be lighted if money is found.

The new Mississippi River Bridge may be lighted if money is found.

The new Mississippi River bridge north of the Edward Jones Dome may be awash in lights when it opens.

Project Director Greg Horn of the Missouri Department of Transportation said today…

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