Should have purchased the land prior to construction. Land isn’t getting any cheaper, but labor sure is. They could have done the whole shebang already had they gone that route. Ah well, hindsight is always 20/20.

More roads to St.Charles county….yay!!! The land of endless Wal-Mart and Target strip centers and bland low-class chain restaurants can grow even bigger and less interesting with the endless expansion of our highways to Wentzville and beyond!! And another road for the Francis Howell kids with their spoilers, tint jobs and systems worth more than the actual car itself to race on!! Yay for Missourah!!

Guess what! They bought me out 18 years ago and gave me 90 days to move. Did you know that taxpayers have been paying to mow the grass in my yard for those 18 years? To bad I couldn’t continue to live there. But then again I don’t miss the suburbanite traffic and the peace and quiet is no longer there with the buzz of highway traffic.

Dave D
Keep your school system, keep you crime, keep your bus system, keep your zoo, keep your earning tax . If it’s such are great place to live why do you keep losing people every year. YAY/YAY/YAY The car sound like something rolling arond stl

It’s a shame that the government keeps contributing to the urban sprawl that just leads to more traffic, more pollution and ever increasing demands for infrastructure expansion when there is ample space for development in St Louis City and St Louis County.

What is equally disturbing is the sense of entitlement people have in St Charles County for additional roads out of general funds while decrying the use of similar moneys for public transit in a more densely populated, already built-out area.

WHERE DO ALL THE CYNICS COM FROM???

Hey Top Gun, I hope you’re enjoying your mediocre life out there in the land of cheap workforce housing, primered Neons, and minivans full of below-average kids.

We’ll keep our zoo, our 1% earnings tax (you must make minimum wage to complain about a lousy point - get a real job), our isolated crime, our Charter schools, our Cardinals, our Forest Park, our world-class hospitals, our nationally-known universities, our skyscrapers, our Lofts, our MetroLink, our Blues, our Crown Candy, our Soulard, our Symphony, our MUNY, our DeMun, our South Grand, our Compton Heights, our Portland Place, our Grove, our Ted Drewes, our Hill, our Central West End, our Brewery, our Rams, our Airport . . . and your girlfriend she’s out with her friends in our clubs.

You can keep your Applebees and Wal-Mart and, well, what else is out there other than farmland, bigots, hoosier wineries, and vinyl siding . . . uh, nothing.

In fact, you don’t even get to claim St. Louis County, so stay out of Ladue, Brentwood, the U. City Loop, Clayton, Huntleigh, Kirkwood, the best private high schools, Plaza Frontenac, Grant’s Farm, Webster Groves, and Sunset Hills.

Face it, without St. Louis, St. Charles is NOTHING - that’s why you tell people you’re from St. Louis when you’re out of town because after all, where is St. Charles anyway? That’s why you pretend you’re part of it all when you’re really just Mr. average, middle class, boring, white flight guy from St. Irrelevant.

Wow. Kind of went crooked with comments here. Is it a good idea to finish the road? Its been talk about since I was high school in St Louis 40 years ago. Yep, I live across the other river now. I think it is.

WOW! What a bunch of whiners and complainers, all!

First, to the Loft District Yuppies, be thankful your unemployment rate in the city was only 9.3% at its highest. In my area, which IS NOT in St. Chuck, we don’t have drive-by shootings or drug deals going on at the street corners. It has been a while since we had a 14 yr old killed in front of his family’s BBQ business and a 16 year old shoot and kill a police officer.

St. Chuck people, why should you get the VAST majority of stimulus money? You already recieved $43 million for the Page Ave. Extension, what about other surrounding counties like Lincoln and Warren? They both have had HIGHER percentage growth rates than you! Lincoln County’s unemployment rate was 13.6% in January of this year alone. Got anything to say about that St. Louis?

There are communities on the edge of the SLMSA, St. Louis Metropolitan Statistcal Area, that are in much more need than EITHER of your areas. Mayor Francis Slay cried and complained after getting ONLY $200 million in funds. How much has also been spent on the “new” 40/61/64 rebuilding?

The entire purpose, or so we were told by B.O. and his band of lackies in Congress, was to promote job growth and economic recovery. If that is the case, why weren’t areas like Lincoln and Warren Counties in the mix? You know what these areas got? Part of a pool of money to resurface a couple rural routes. Wow, that is going to create long and sustained economic recovery and growth.

The bottom line is this, areas like BOTH St. Louis and St. Charles got the vast majority of money, inspite of the fact that they already had established tax bases from which to draw funds for infrastructure improvements. Other communities on the fringes of the SLSMA were IGNORED by MoDOT, Missouri Dept. of Economic Development, State and Congressional Delegations, ad nauseum…………….

Before complaining about each other’s “cash,” you might want to consider those areas that received, essentially, NOTHING!

So just counting 3 of the active projects (I-64, MSR bridge, MO-141) St. Louis county has approximately 1.5 billion worth construction in progress. Nevermind the $600 million that was spent on the metrolink extension. And people are complaining about the $100 million currently being spent on MO-364 and another $100 million to complete it after it has been in various planning phases for over 40 years. And just so no one gets the wrong idea I actually support all of the St. Louis county work. I just think it’s strange that people can always find something to complain about.