Summary of Highway 40 Shutdown Trouble Spots
In preparation for “Manic Monday”, I thought readers might appreciate a summary of the trouble spots seen so far with the Highway 40 (I-64) shutdown. As you know, things haven’t been all that bad so far, but the conventional wisdom is that Monday will show increased traffic loads as people return from the holidays.
Shown on the map below are all the slow areas and trouble spots, as identified by MoDOT and St. Louis County in their daily briefing reports and rush hour traffic summaries. I have to give credit to MoDOT and St. Louis County for their work here. It’s seldom that you see government respond to issues so quickly and with as much transparency as we’ve seen in the first few days of the shutdown.
Just click on the icons or routes for more information. You can also view the full map here.
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on January 21, 2008 at 1:13 am Jenny wrote:
Is this blog over now that the hwy 40 shutdown has begun????? The highway has been shutdown for 3 weeks now - and the last post was shortly after the shutdown began.
on January 21, 2008 at 9:58 am Administrator wrote:
Jenny,
Let’s call it a case of “Shutdown Letdown”. I’m sure the lack of traffic nightmares with the shutdown are leaving a lot of news outlets and bloggers a little disappointed. I will be blogging again soon, focusing on safety of the areas of the highway that are open, as well as design plans for the new highway.
Thanks for reading.
- Jason
highway40insight.com
on January 22, 2008 at 12:05 am Jenny wrote:
Makes sense - it’s really amazing to me why there isn’t more of a traffic problem with the shutdown actually - where did everyone go - did that many people change their jobs/life around to avoid the roads at rush times or did hwy 40 actually cause more problems than we knew?
on January 23, 2008 at 6:08 pm Bob wrote:
I would like to see some construction photos. The ones on the newi64 site suck. Also some updated renderings on wha tthe highway will look like.