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…
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.…
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…
The Missouri Legislature today approved a bill that will expedite work on a new Mississippi River bridge between St. Louis and the Metro East. The bill allows for the transfer of state-owned land to the Missouri Department of Transportation. Ironically, such…
For the new Mississippi River bridge to go up, overpasses first must come down. This summer, MoDOT will hire contractors to tear down and rebuild bridges carrying St. Louis and Madison avenues over Interstate 70. They also will remove the Cass Avenue…
The nitty gritty planning process of designing a new Mississippi River bridge north of the EdwardJones Dome is about halfway finished. The Missouri and Illinois transportation departments are getting permits, meeting with the railroads and the Army Corps of Engineers,…
The Missouri and Illinois transportation departments are moving right along on a $640 million Mississippi River bridge. Engineers are in the middle of designing the four-lane crossing. Construction is scheduled to be underway early next year.
MoDOT has been publishing quarterly…
It will be the first visible sign that we’ll have a new Mississippi River bridge someday. Next week, crews will begin drilling in the river between the Martin Luther King and McKinley bridges to determine what kind and how deep the bedrock is. …
