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Not only did St. Louis morning commuters have to deal with snow, several other things fell onto the roads as well.
A ladder somewhere in South City, a mattress on 367, and a 5 foot by 5 foot snow boulder in left lane on 364 at 94.
Mattresses 127
Ladders 99
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MoDOT announced this morning that they have opened a third lane on the Poplar as well as the northbound Route 3 ramp to westbound 64 to the Poplar. This should help even though they're still working. Looking at my KMOV traffic app on Live Traffic I can see the westbound traffic headed to the Poplar is heavy but better than it has been while the traffic heading to the Musial is heavy. This could mean the bridge news did not get to most commuters this morning.
I'm still taking bets that as soon as MoDOT finally finishes their bridge work, IDOT will decide to start closing lanes on the east end to resurface or something else. It never ends there.
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In the last 24 hours two ladders fell on St. Louis roadways
Mattresses 118
Ladders 91
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It's been awhile since a ladder fell onto a St. Louis highway, mattresses have been all over the place. But today on eastbound 44 near 109 a ladder fell.
Mattresses 115
Ladders 89
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As an added issue for Illinois drivers heading to or from St. Louis, the northbound ramp from route 3 to the westbound Poplar will close and stay closed til mid-November. Can they mess everyone up even more? I guess we'll see.
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This morning Dale and I sat and tried to make sense of what MoDOT and IDOT were going to do to the bridges this weekend in order to figure out how to get to Collinsville and back. The Belleville paper gave a summary of the bridge closings which after a close reading, gave us the idea it would be ridiculous to even try.
"Eastbound lanes of the Poplar Street Bridge should close starting at 7 p.m. Friday and remain that way through 6 a.m. Monday, according to Missouri Department of Transportation officials.
MoDOT will also be closing some westbound lanes of the bridge and one ramp in Illinois to westbound Interstate 64 will remain closed well into November. Officials are advising travelers to use alternate routes and travel methods.
Specifically, at 7 p.m. on Friday crews will close the ramp from eastbound Interstate 44/northbound Interstate 55 to eastbound Interstate 64. The ramp from Eighth, Pine and Sixth streets will also be closed.
At 8 p.m., crews will close eastbound I-64 at Jefferson. Those lanes are expected to reopen by 6 a.m. Monday.
This weekend, crews will also close the two right westbound lanes on the Poplar Street Bridge, and close the ramp from northbound Illinois 3 to westbound I-64 on Saturday. That ramp will remain closed through mid-November."
In addition, the King bridge is still totally closed.
Quite honestly I believe this should be illegal. What always concerns me is all the sem students we have who are assigned to churches in the Metro East on Sunday mornings and most of them are not from this area originally so trying to explain how to get over to Illinois is tricky.
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Mattresses 111
Ladders 84
On the subject of highway debris, the MoDOT road work is really getting out of hand. They're everywhere, backing up traffic, closing entire sections of highways, putting up orange cones when you least expect them. The Poplar area is still the worst what with the King bridge also closed. But 44 has become a pain, and yesterday coming back from Illinois around 11 in the morning, all of a sudden 64/40 came to a stop around Market Street. Right lane closed ahead the signs said so all the traffic was trying to get into the middle and left lanes. Orange cones everywhere and nothing was going on work-wise until the entrance to Kingshighway where workers and trucks were in the right lane for about 50 yards. They were cutting the pavement at that spot into a big square for some unknown reason just as utility workers do on Clayton Road and Big Bend and everywhere else. They stand around looking into the hole, do something and leave a sad looking patch job.
I just hope MoDOT doesn't plan on closing one entire direction of the Poplar again this weekend.
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Several instances lately of bowling balls being thrown at St. Louis drivers. Now this strikes me as beyond crazy. First of all I'm surprised anyone really owns a bowling ball these days and has the strength to carry it to some spot along a busy road and toss it at moving cars. But beyond that where did this idea come from. The Riverfront Times jumps in with the blame Trump meme which so many of our national media is prone to do. I hope they thought this was just a cute/funny way to begin their story.
I guess we drivers have to watch out for everything these days and hope our spare is in good shape or that the ball goes into another lane.
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