Frank Grimes: Do you have a date for McCutcheon to re-open?

Dan Galvin and Linda Wilson: That depends on when the city of Richmond Heights finishes its work on McCutcheon north of the bridge. We don't want to open the bridge just to have all the traffic drive into a single lane work zone so we'll wait until they are done, which should be sometime in early December.

Dan

theresa: i live in st charles county. i use I-170 to get to my daughter who lives @ mcclausland & hwy 40. with the closing of w/b hwy 40 will I be able to take I-170 to clayton rd to mcclausland / skinner.

Dan Galvin and Linda Wilson: Yes. You can take I-170 south to the Brentwood Blvd exit. Take Brentwood to Clayton Road and turn left and then take Clayton Road to McCausland.

Linda Wilson

dan: I want to use e/b hwy 40 when the new section reopens. where would i exit and how would i get to the ted dewes area(chippewa and jamieson)

Dan Galvin and Linda Wilson: When we close the east half of I-64 from I-170 to Kingshighway on Dec 15, you will be able to use I-64 between downtown and Kingshighway. I'm not sure where you are coming from, but you will be able to take I-64 west to Kingshighway and then go south to Chippewa to Ted Drewe's.

Linda Wilson

stltom6568: I hear they are going to make the switch in one day between the open and closed portions of the project. Won't that lead to a lot of confusion? Couldn't they open the new, western portion and leave the eastern portion open for a few days and then close the eastern portion?

Dan Galvin and Linda Wilson: The opening and closing of the two halves of I-64 has to occur simultaneously. For one thing, the east and west pieecs of the project no longer match up at I-170. We moved the mainline about 50 feet to the north so it will fit between the west-to-north and south-to-east flyover ramps.

We also have to restripe the flyover ramps to carry eastbound I-64 to northbound I-170, northbound I-170 traffic from Eager Road, and turn the lane for northbound traffic entering from Galleria Parkway back to a merge lane. If we left everything as it is now and added the east-to-north and Eager traffic we would have six lanes of traffic trying to fit into a three lane highway. As you can probably imagine, that would not be good.

Dan

L. Koeneman: Where will be the new point of entry to 40 W exactly -- at Hanley, Brentwood, McKnight?
The new 40 E "last exit" will move from Ballas to where?

Dan Galvin and Linda Wilson: You will be able to enter westbound I-64 from Brentwood Boulevard, which will also be the last exit for eastbound traffic unless you are going north on I-170.

Dan