Happy New Year - Highway 40 is closed
Just about the time that you’ll be recovering from your New Year’s Eve revelry, road blocks will go up if your daily commute is on Highway 40 between Ballas Road and I-170.
Before the morning rush hour on Jan. 2, crews will set up blockades in both directions at Ballas Road on the west and at I-170 and Brentwood Boulevard on the eastern edge of the closure.
Today’s story by reporter Elisa Crouch explains that state contractors will immediately begin demolishing bridges over Lindbergh Boulevard, Brentwood Boulevard, and Clayton and Warson roads.
Once work west of I-170 ends, crews will close lanes from I-170 to Kingshighway until late 2009.
âThere will be significant delays if people do not change their commuting times and habits,” said Ed Hassinger, district engineer for the Transportation Department.
With the first long-term closure coming in two months and four days from today, have you altered your daily commute or made alternate plans for getting to work, school or anyplace else in the path of the road project?
One thing that can be done to help - please complete as much construction as possible on the arteries before January 1st so we aren’t dealing with multiple problem areas!