04.02.2008 11:47 am

Clocks are ticking

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Crews today installed new clocks on the New I-64 countdown signs. They’re counting down the months and days left until the end of construction, starting at 20 months, 28 days. In the fall, the three signs were set up to count down the days, hours, minutes and even seconds until the completion of the Highway 40 (Interstate 64) project. The Missouri Department of Transportation turned off the signs just a few days later. The jumble of numbers as they were displayed confused too many passing motorists.

The countdown signs are on westbound Highway 40 near Kingshighway, southbound Interstate 170, and eastbound Highway 40 near Interstate 270. Gateway Constructors, the team of contractors rebuilding the interstate, paid for the signs.

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With the clock, they’d better finish the job ON TIME.

— bb

1:27 pm April 2nd, 2008

How much will the electric bill be every month to power these ridiculous signs?

— Brain

1:31 pm April 2nd, 2008

I am a person who hardly ever travel hwy 40 I do travel 64 on the ill side. But I do agree that it is a waste of the tax payers dollar to put dum signs up when that same money could be going to better eqiup.OUR TROOPS ABROAD are to help our homeless or drug treament centers.Anything better than road signs o excuse me I mean electronic road signs.

— e bean

1:58 pm April 2nd, 2008

Too funny! Posting countdown clocks on the roads that you mainly closed. What a joke. If you feel the need to spend money on that, then why not post them on the now alternate routes? I44 - I70 and Ladue Roads just to name three. Chalkboard paint and a box of sidewalk chalk from Big Lots would have been just as efficient and MUCH less expensive. St. Louis officials hard at work again!

— Amanda

2:07 pm April 2nd, 2008

This is the best part of the story:
“The jumble of numbers as they were displayed confused too many passing motorists.”

With the proper education, someday, MO citizens will be able to decipher a countdown timer and digital clocks.

— Bob

2:13 pm April 2nd, 2008

Uh Bob…They were a jumble of numbers. Looked nothing like a countdown timer (certainly not a clock). Did you seen them?

— BK

2:16 pm April 2nd, 2008

Maybe I’m crazy for thinking this, but don’t drivers get a bit more credit for knowing when this construction is done when they physically OPEN the lanes of traffic again!? I’d expect that the day or two before this work is completed it just MIGHT be deemed news-worthy, but not a day before.

— SMH

2:21 pm April 2nd, 2008

I agree this is a waste of tax dollars but Steve the first poster, I have a question:

You said, “For those who do not travel Hwy 40 or never did, this is a waste of money anyway you look at it.”

I disagree with this statement.

For example,

Should the state not put up an electronic emergency alert board in Joplin, Mo with state tax dollars because people who live down state will never see it or use it?

Sure, this is a waste of money, but the idea of it being a waste of money BASED on the fact that not all people will reap the benfits of their tax dollars in the state they live in is a bit off base.

— TheBoss

2:31 pm April 2nd, 2008

Maybe they could move the Countdown to Completion signs to the Ballpark Village site, but leave them non-functional.

— Bob K

3:12 pm April 2nd, 2008

These signs are so stupid. Not only are they a waste of money, but they create traffic congestion as people slow to read them in areas that are already highly delay prone. And they serve absolutely no useful purpose.

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot.

— Willie Testeverde

3:21 pm April 2nd, 2008

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