Motorists will be crossing the new Jefferson Barracks Bridge this spring, says Dale Klohr, Illinois Department of Transportation district engineer in Fairview Heights.
The project replaced four bridge structure and relocated Park Avenue to the intersection of Tower Grove and Vandeventer. The five million dollar structure was completed today.
Inching across the Meramec River on U.S. Highway 66 at Sylvan Beach, two miles west of Lindbergh boulevard in St. Louis County, this 1102-foot bridge is nearing completion. When finished it will carry the eastbound traffic lane of the transcontinental highway. This bridge is part of an improvement project on 129 miles of roads in the state in 41 counties and the City of St. Louis.
Work on a new bridge over Brentwood Boulevard to link the southbound lanes of the Inner Belt and westbound lanes of U.S. 40 is about 25 percent complete.
The area around Gravois and River Des Peres was rather thinly populated even in the era of the "get out and get under" auto. Note the stalled car on south side of the bridge. Cars were built so simply then that nearly everybody who drove was able to make all his own repairs.
Pictured: A truck whizzes over the Moline Creek bridge on Lewis and Clark Boulevard in North St. Louis County.
Why…hasn't the Missouri Highway and Transportation Department made safety improvements to the narrow bridge. There are only a few feet separating vehicles from the dangerous bridge abutments and rails.
Eastbound traffic crawled heading for Poplar Street Bridge ramps Monday between 4:15 and 4:30 p.m. Approach ramps were tied up in all directions. Repair work on the approaches, which began Monday, caused the huge jam. The Third and Walnut streets intersection, left, was jammed as drivers pushed toward the left lane to reach already tied-up approach ramp to bridge, right. Both photos were taken