Improvements to Highway DD will be finished before the end of 2010, state officials said today.

Kevin Keith, chief engineer for the Missouri Department of Transportation, sent a letter to County Executive Steve Ehlmann saying the state would accelerate improvements to the…

Westbound and eastbound Interstate 70 exit ramps to First Capitol Drive (Highway 94) in St. Charles will be closed Wednesday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. to allow work crews to apply a sealant to the bridge deck.

The Missouri Department…

Two middle westbound lanes of the Blanchette Bridge that carries Interstate 70 over the Missouri River will be shut down much of next week to allow engineers to do checks on the span’s structural integrity.

The lanes will be closed from 5 a.m.…

The St. Charles County Council voted 6-0 on Monday night for a measure designed to renew pressure on state transportation officials to cut the speed limit on a stretch of accident-plagued Highway DD west of Highway 40.

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The measure, if ratified by…

More than 300 people crammed into New Melle’s Community Club last night to talk about ways to improve Highway DD, a road that state officials say is among the most dangerous of its kind in the state.

State Sen. Scott Rupp…

The Harvester Road bypass between the north and south outer roads of the Page Avenue extension (Route 364) will close Friday and remain closed until 2 p.m. Monday.

Crews will pour pavement over the weekend to connect Harvester Road with the…

Local and state officials Wednesday morning heralded the removal of the final at-grade stoplight that for years required drivers on Highway 40 in St. Charles County to slow down and stop.

The removal of the signal at Callahan Road amid a ribbon-cutting…

St. Charles County officials are trying again to get state officials to cut the speed limit on a mile-long stretch of accident-plagued Highway DD west of Highway 40.

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County Executive Steve Ehlmann on Thursday asked the Missouri Highways and Transportation Commission…

The federal economic stimulus program will reach into the tiny unincorporated town of Defiance with $430,000 to pay for a pedestrian and bicycle pathway to link the Katy Trail to local businesses on the east side of Highway 94.

“It will…

A key Missouri Department of Transportation committee earlier this week signed off on a $43 million package to take the Page Avenue extension (Highway 364) westward to just beyond Mid Rivers Mall Drive by 2012.

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That’s in addition to $45 million…