Thursday, January 17, 2013
The projects cost nearly $211 million, and will include road and lane closures around the St. Louis area that begin next week.
Missouri Department of Transportation (MoDOT) crews have a busy year planned for road construction in the St. Louis area. Tuesday, MoDOT officials unveiled detailed plans for five major projects around the St. Louis area in 2013 that total nearly $211 million. "So it's a significant amount of money we're about to spend on roads around the state, around the region," said Ed Hassinger, MoDOT District Engineer for the St. Louis region. Details for another project along Interstate 70 in St. Peters at Mid Rivers Mall Drive will come later this year. Hassinger said because of the mild winter, crews worked late into 2012, and 2013 construction projects will begin early this year. Following are the projects MoDOT have planned. Hassinger said …
Thursday, September 6, 2012
Part 2 of 2: Wildwood residents who live or travel on Missouri Route 109 voiced feedback and asked questions at a Wednesday open house at city hall regarding the widening of a portion of the roadway used by 20,000 drivers daily.
Kristin and Mark Stinnett with their fingers traced a dotted line that went through their backyard on one of the enlarged maps portrayed at Wednesday's open house regarding future construction for Missouri Route 109 in Wildwood. The Stinnetts live in Hickory Manor Village Subdivision, on Hickory Forest Street, which backs up to Pond-Grover Loop Road. It turns out the dotted line was merely the designated right-of-way line, which relieved them. Read prior article regarding the extent of the Missouri Route 109 project designed to improve safety and traffic flow between Missouri Route 100 and Clayton Road: Missouri Route 109 Widening: What's the Plan? "We came to find out the timeline of the project, which will affect us, regarding how to get…
Part 1 of 2: Wildwood and Missouri Department of Transportation officials hosted an open house Wednesday at Wildwood City Hall to gather feedback regarding major plans that include increasing Route 109 from two to four lanes in future.
Authorities indicate the stretch of roadway on Missouri Route 109 between Missouri Route 100 and Clayton Road historically has the most number of crashes annually within Wildwood's borders. A proposed, major highway construction project was designed to improve the safety and flow of traffic there, but many Wildwood residents questioned whether a recommended two-lane roundabout was the right way to go at Wednesday evening's open house about the project hosted from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. "The accident rate on this stretch is about twice that of other similar roads in Missouri, and twice what we like to see," said Missouri Department of Transportation area engineer Michelle Voegele, at the open house. Approximately 20,000 vehicles travel through …
Wm. J. Pattison
11:51 am on Tuesday, April 30, 2013
You think this will be a mess. Jeff. County Planning & Zoning just approved building an apartment/gas station complex in a flood plain at the other end of 109 & W with 3 driveways from 109 to the bridge into Eureka - accidents waiting to happen! During the last rain the water was approx. 12 inches from going over 109. We employee these people to work for us? 3 more ›