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County Inspecting Forest Park Parkway Bridges on Sunday, April 29, 2012

April 24, 2012

St. Louis County will conduct its annual inspection of Forest Park Parkway’s bridges in Clayton this Sunday (April 29), beginning at 7 a.m.

Drivers are cautioned to be alert for lane closures pertaining to the inspections – and, of course, for the inspection team members themselves.

“Traffic will remain open but in certain places, lanes will be temporarily closed so that our bridge personnel can perform their duty,” explained David Wrone, a spokesman for the County’s Department of Highways and Traffic. “Drivers will be alerted to the closures by temporary signs. We’ll have anywhere from two to four engineers on or near the driving pavement Sunday, so motorists need to adjust their speed accordingly.”

From Shaw Park Drive west to Forsyth, a total of nine bridges will be scoured for any sign of deterioration from any cause, such as collision damage or generic wear from traffic or weather. St. Louis County performs these inspections every year.


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The third NORTHWEST PARKWAY CITIZENS ADVISORY GROUP MEETING took place on Thursday, March 29, 2012 at the JFK Community Center, 315 Howdershell Road, Florissant, Missouri 63031.  For more information, go to the Northwest Parkway Study website, CLICK HERE.


About This Department

With more than 3,100 lane miles of road and street pavement and more than 184 bridges to maintain, Saint Louis County's Department of Highways and Traffic is Missouri's second largest caretaker of public roadways, exceeded only by the Missouri Department of Transportation (MoDOT).

In addition to its administrative offices and parking garage operations in Saint Louis County Government's main campus in Clayton, Missouri, the Department maintains five Maintenance Districts; the Operations Division Headquarters on Schaefer Drive; the Division of Construction Headquarters, Materials Testing Lab and Survey Section on Schaefer Drive, and the Traffic Operations Building on Adie Road.

From these locations, under the leadership of Director Sheryl L. Hodges, D.E., P.E., L.P.G., the Department's 500 employees perform literally hundreds of duties necessary to ensure the smooth function of its road and bridge system, which encompasses the entirety of unincorporated Saint Louis County and designated arterial roads in incorporated communities. On a daily basis the Department oversees multi-million dollar road construction projects, patches potholes, plows snow, surveys streets, mows grass, monitors and assigns repair priority for road surfaces, designs and erects electric traffic signals, manages personnel records, assembles the annual operating budget, keeps County Government's 3,000-plus fleet of motor vehicles and small engine equipment functioning, repairs bridge decks, constructs new sidewalks and driveway approaches, installs traffic signs, designs complex new road construction plans and oversees parking garage operations for more than 2,400 vehicles.

Additional information on projects and programs planned or currently being carried out by Saint Louis County's Department of Highways and Traffic can be found on this Web page.


St. Louis County Department of Highways & Traffic
121 South Meramec Avenue
Clayton, Missouri  63105