Mississippi River Bridge breaking ground

by Matt Kastner

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After years of waiting, the formal groundbreaking is now set for the new Mississippi River Bridge in downtown St. Louis. Meant to create a direct route from Missouri to Illinois along Interstate-70, this $670 million project will be breaking ground Friday, February 26th at 12:30pm.

Come 2014, this project could really bring some major changes to transportation through downtown St. Louis. It’s just too bad we have to wait so long.

I-64 reopening implications

by Matt Kastner

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Although the impact of the Interstate 64 closure through St. Louis over the last two years has been less severe than most feared, it still had an impact nonetheless. Since we’ve all be inundated by news on the subject lately I won’t bore you with rehashes of other articles, but I did want to point out a couple of real estate-related affects. Read more

Mississippi River Bridge progresses

by Matt Kastner

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Despite the fact  that MODOT is putting the brakes on most new transportation projects, it seems that one high profile project hasn’t been affected: the new Mississippi River Bridge in Downtown St. Louis. Read more

Metro cuts public transportation

by Matt Kastner

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In a move that Metro has been threatening since Proposition M failed in November, the Metro governing board has approved a proposal to trim service starting March 30, 2009 in order to drastically reduce costs by $36 million a year. Read more