![]() Louis skyline–is sure to become an icon that will symbolize the city almost as much as the Gateway Arch. The distinctive bridge with its gleaming towers and cables–a sparkling new addition to the St. A cable-stayed bridge has one or more towers from which cables support the bridge deck. Audubon at 1,581 feet in south central Louisiana and the Arther Ravenal Jr. The new bridge’s main span–the portion of the bridge between the two towers–is 15,000 feet long making it the third longest cable-stayed bridge in the United States. The “Stan Span” is four lanes wide, two in each direction, with enough room to re-stripe it to three lanes in each direction down the road. Officials estimate another 20,000 vehicles will come off the PSB at that time. Motorists coming from the west on I-70 will find it easier to access downtown as well.Īnd traffic problems will be eased even further in the next couple of years when ramps to the Poplar Street Bridge from I-55 and I-44 are improved and the so-called “park over the highway” connecting the Gateway Arch grounds to the city is completed. Officials estimate the new bridge will take up to 20,000 vehicles off the Poplar Street Bridge easing traffic onto downtown streets. Motorists coming from Illinois will be able to avoid the downtown congestion they experience on the Poplar Street Bridge (PSB), especially during rush hour, by using the new bridge. Louis on three other bridges–the historic Eads Bridge (opened in 1874), the Martin Luther King Bridge (formerly known as the Veterans Bridge) and the McKinley Bridge. In addition, motorists can cross the Mississippi at St. ![]() The long-awaited new bridge comes almost 50 years after the opening of the Poplar Street, the last bridge built across the Mississippi in downtown St. The “ Stan Span” across the Mississippi River was officially opened to vehicular traffic last Sunday following a ribbon-cutting ceremony Saturday afternoon and a lighting ceremony Saturday night.
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