It looks like Missouri and Illinois have reached agreement on the long-awaited new Mississippi River bridge. The governors of the two bordering states made the announcement this week.
The $640 million bridge and its new road connections will be constructed a north of the Martin Luther King Bridge and south of the recently re-opened McKinley Bridge. Federal funds will cover $239 million of the construction cost.
Construction is expected to start in 2010. The bridge will carry two lanes in each direction and will be designed to connect I-70 from the I-55/70/64 interchange in Illinois to the I-70 and Cass Avenue area north of downtown St. Louis in Missouri, relieving traffic on the Poplar Street, Eads and King bridges.
Nearly 70,000 residents of Illinois' close and convenient suburbs cross one of the Mississippi River bridges each day to work in Missouri.
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