Design is underway and construction is to start early next year, but the new Mississippi River bridge isn’t scheduled to open until 2014 at the earliest. Those of you anxious to drive the future link between downtown St. Louis and the MetroEast will have to settle for this video. For more details about design, click here.
Four lanes? This will be a 24/7 traffic jam–from Day One.
I have never seen anything so exciting in my life.
Looks sort of like the bridge at Cape Girardeau, MO
Wasn’t this bridge supposed to be a twin to the MLK. I thought this was supposed to carry traffic one way while the MLK took traffic the other. Oh well. As long as it re-routes 70 it can’t hurt.
Although it would have been nice to have additional lanes, any relief for the poplar street bridge will help drivers.
I was hoping to see how the bridge would connect to interstate 70 and the Illinois side. Anything to help with congestion on 70 is alright by me.
Why only four lanes? Why? This makes no sense! No foresight! Damon Scott Hynes is correct, this will become in a very short time, a traffic jam. Think about how it will be, when the Ill. side becomes more residential and more drivers are crossing in 5 to 10 years. Also, it looks like once again no lane for pedestrians or bicyclists to cross safely. The traffic jam will now be redirected to north of the city. Great job to the people who planned this one.
Don’t like the bridge design. A good truss type bridge would have done the job and probably cost a lot less. Additionally, at least two more lanes are needed. Why build a bridge that is obsolete before its built?
Cool! But Elmer’s right….come on down to Cape Girardeau. We’ve already got a bridge like this….
Weeeeeeeeeeeee…….