A two-lane bridge on Dorsett Road three-quarters of a mile east of Interstate 270 carries a 15 ton weight limit which is not always obeyed. This bridge and four others will be replaced if the St. Louis County highway bond issue is adopted.
St. Louis County's plans to replace about a dozen one-lane bridges with wider roadways may make situations like the one shown here a thing of the past. Car in foreground is waiting for one in background as it crosses the bridge.
Recently completed improvement of the Cypress Road Bridge, located approximately 1200 feet north of St. Charles Rock Road on Cypress Road in Bridgeton, are shown above.
Traffic snakes it way onto Bernard F. Dickmann Memorial Bridge (aka Poplar St. Bridge) late in day. This is an intersection which anonymous letter-writer has complained about, particularly traffic entering from Spruce St. (coming in at right sice of pic.)