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10.20.2009 3:55 pm

King Bridge to reopen early

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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…

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07.03.2009 10:52 am

Bridges, explosions and the Fourth

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

In honor of Independence Day, the Missouri Department of Transportation posted a YouTube video showing its version of fireworks: bridges imploding to patriotic music. Missouri has more than 10,000 bridges on its state bridge system — 53…

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06.01.2009 4:13 pm

Soulard overpass reopens, two more to close

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

The closure of the Big Bend Boulevard bridge over Highway 40 (Interstate 64) wasn’t the only noteworthy event today in St. Louis area transportation.

The Lafayette Avenue overpass that crosses Interstate 55 in Soulard reopened this afternoon. It closed about two months ago for…

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04.27.2009 5:20 pm

More bridges close on I-55

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Crews are moving down the list of seven bridges that need to be rehabbed along Interstate 55 in St. Louis’s Soulard neighborhood. On Tuesday, the bridge that carries Utah Street over I-55 will close so crews can remove the bridge deck and repair sidewalks. On…

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04.10.2009 11:03 am

Pedestrian bridge over Highway 40 has soggy opening

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Despite this morning’s steady rain, MoDOT threw open a new pedestrian bridge over Highway 40 just east of  Kingshighway with a handful of people from the neighborhood looking on.

The lighted bridge provides a link between neighborhoods south of Highway 40…

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03.30.2009 3:28 pm

Gravois bridge reopens Friday

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

The bridge on Gravois Road over Gravois Creek is scheduled to reopen after 10 a.m. Friday, the Missouri Department of Transportation announced today. The bridge is west of Grant Road and east of Musick Road, near Grant’s Farm. It’s been…

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03.18.2009 11:02 am

I-55 bridges will close for repairs

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

The Missouri Department of Transportation just announced that it will be renovating seven overpasses on Interstate 55 near Soulard starting next week. The Lafayette bridge will be first. It’s scheduled to close March 24 so crews can remove and replace…

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02.09.2009 4:44 pm

Jefferson Ave. bridge open in both directions

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Southbound lanes of the Jefferson Avenue bridge are finally open, after more than a month of being restricted to northbound only.

The City of St. Louis and its contractor reopened southbound lanes Friday afternoon. The city opened northbound lanes in December so at least part of…

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02.06.2009 3:50 pm

Rahn says don’t expect too much from stimulus

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Missouri Transportation Director Pete Rahn told reporters today not to expect sweeping highway and bridge projects from the economic stimulus package.”The rhetoric of this stimulus bill has been that we were going to fix America’s crumbling roads and bridges. That…

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01.30.2009 4:22 pm

Section of Gravois closes Monday

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

A section of Gravois Road near Grant’s Farm will close at 5 a.m. today through April 4 for bridge replacement.  The Missouri Department of Transportation and its contractor, Pace Construction Co., will be replacing the aging bridge over Gravois Creek,…

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