02.25.2008 5:21 pm
Agreement reached: Does this mean a new bridge is coming?
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Post-Dispatch transportation writer Elisa Crouch is breaking the news that Missouri and Illinois leaders have reached an agreement on a new Mississippi River bridge.
Her early story says:
It has been more than two years since Congress authorized $239 million for a new bridge, which would redirect Interstate 70 traffic from the congested Poplar Street Bridge. Officials from both sides of the river, however, struggled to agree on the scale, cost and financing of the project.
One stumbling block was overcome last spring, when Missouri officials dropped their insistence on tolls as a way to finance the bridge. Illinois was adamantly opposed to…
