The Missouri Department of Transportation has canceled the planned Sept. 10-13 closure of westbound Highway 40 in west St. Louis County.

MoDOT officials blamed the recent wet weather. The contractor making the repairs has not had enough time to put up scaffolding on the Daniel Boone Bridge to make a weekend's worth of repairs.

The state hopes to complete all of the work on the weekend of Sept. 17-20. MoDOT already had announced that the westbound lanes of Highway 40 would be closed that weekend.

The closure will be from 8 p.m. Friday, Sept. 17 to 5 a.m. the following Monday. It will stretch from Long Road in the Chesterfield Valley west into St. Charles County.

MoDOT spokesman Andrew Gates stressed that people will not be able to get to St. Charles County on Highway 40 that weekend. Alternate westbound routes include Interstate 70, state Route 364 and Highway 370.

The same stretch of highway was closed last weekend. Despite extensive publicity and warnings on electronic message signs, many motorists wound up being turned around at Long Road.