05.18.2009 5:27 pm
Pouring it on
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Crews hit a milestone today on the closed section of Highway 40 (Interstate 64). In addition to rebuilding overpasses and moving dirt, they started repaving lanes.
The work began at 8 a.m. on the westbound side, near the exit to Clayton and Skinker. By noon, they’d inched their way toward the Tamm Avenue bridge and the St. Louis Zoo. Crews fed one dump truck load after the next onto a conveyor belt, which spat the wet concrete into a form where it was smoothed into a thick ribbon of highway. It will take about five weeks of work (more if it rains) for them to finish paving the highway. Then they’ll have to form the concrete median walls, the shoulders and the connections from the highway to the exit and entrance ramps.
