SIKESTON-To help the public understand more about upcoming "Safe and Sound" bridge projects in their areas, MoDOT will be conducting open-house community briefings. The next community briefing will be held Tuesday, June 23 to discuss the Route 8 Big River bridge improvements in St. Francois County. The meeting will be held at MoDOT's Park Hills maintenance shed, 2240 Conway Road, from 4 to 6 p.m. MoDOT staff will be on-hand to discuss details about the project plans.
Unlike many other Safe and Sound bridge improvement projects, this project will not involve a road closure. Due to a lack of suitable detour routes, work will be staged. Traffic will be reduced to one lane, and temporary signals will be in place during construction.
Other similar community briefings will be planned and announced for the remaining bridges in Southeast Missouri, as the planned construction at each location approaches.
In September, the Missouri Highways and Transportation Commission approved plans to improve more than 800 of the state's lowest rated bridges within the next five years. There are 86 bridges in the Southeast District that are currently in "Safe and Sound" program. These bridges will be identified throughout Southeast Missouri with the "Safe and Sound" logo signs near the bridges. These "Safe and Sound" signs identify these bridges as being some of Southeast District's poorest condition bridges-but these bridges will be repaired or replaced within the next five years.
Nineteen of the bridges in the Southeast District will be among some of the first bridges to receive improvements. These
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