The Martin Luther King Bridge will reopen on Wednesday - two days early - and possibly by the evening commute.

“Stay tuned for the time,” Jeff Church, project engineer for the Illinois Department of Transportation told the Post-Dispatch today.

Workers were still placing…

UPDATED with closure dates

The Illinois Department of Transportation said the Martin Luther King Bridge will close from Oct. 12-Oct. 24, weather permitting, to undergo the $1.4 million makeover that will change it from a four-lane span to three.

The bridge over…

The Missouri Department of Transportation will delay awarding a contract to build the new Mississippi River bridge until it determines whether minority contractors are being fully utilized in the St. Louis region, the department announced today.

The delay comes after minority contractors raised concerns this summer that the state hasn’t been involving…

U.S. Rep. Lacy Clay wants separate goals for women and minority contractors on the new Mississippi River bridge, the $640 million project scheduled to be under construction in January or February.

In a letter Monday to U.S. Tranportation Secretary Ray LaHood, Clay urged the U.S.…

Work to make the Martin Luther King Bridge safer for drivers is expected to begin next month and will result in a full bridge closure for 10 to 12 days. The Illinois Department of Transportation is trying to schedule the work around Rams games, the Cardinals postseason,…

UPDATE: Bridge to remain closed Saturday night.

The westbound side of the Daniel Boone Bridge — which carries Highway 40 (Interstate 64) over the Missouri River — is scheduled to close most of Saturday and Sunday for its annual bridge inspection.

In…

The Clayton Avenue overpass at Highway 40 (Interstate 64) closed today, a few hours after the Oakland Avenue overpass reopened (traffic returned to the Oakland bridge around 2 p.m.).

The Clayton Avenue bridge is mostly known just to drivers in Dogtown. To drivers…

Traffic is once again flowing across the Hanley Road overpass at Highway 40 (Interstate 64) after being closed since late December. Crews reopened the overpass around 2 p.m.

There’s still work to do in the area. Drivers, beware that your access…

The ribbon has been cut to reopen the Hanley Road overpass at Highway 40 (Interstate 64). By evening rush hour, it will be open to traffic. 

But traffic restrictions on some residential streets in Richmond Heights will remain, at least for now, city spokeswoman Irene Johnson…

The Missouri Department of Transportation closed three of five lanes on westbound Interstate 70 at the Blanchette Bridge today for emergency repairs.

Crews are repairing a crack found in a secondary steel support beam, similar in nature to one that was fixed about two…