Bridge inspection crews based in Northwest Missouri work to inspect the bridges in our area. This program of inspection, repair, and maintenance of the more than 10,000 bridges across the state ensures the bridges are kept in the best possible condition for as long as possible for all those that travel across Missouri’s roadways. Specialized […]
If you regularly travel Interstate 29 near the border of Holt and Andrew counties, you have seen the work going on at the Nodaway River Bridge. Contractors from Emery Sapp and Sons, working with the Missouri Department of Transportation, are building crossover lanes in the median just north and south of the bridge, located between […]
A bridge maintenance project will close 280th Street at Interstate 35 in Harrison County next week. Local maintenance crews will close 280th Street at the interstate bridge for routine maintenance work. The full closure of 280th Street will begin Monday, March 19 at approximately 8 a.m. will continue through March 22 at approximately 3 p.m. […]
Beginning the second week of March, contractors from Chester Bross Construction Company of Palmyra, working with the Missouri Department of Transportation, will begin a bridge deck replacement on Harrison County Route EE over Big Muddy Creek located 0.1 miles south of Route M. The bridge will close the morning of March 12 and will remain […]
The Trenton City Council last night took votes on three ordinances, passing one of them on a split vote to enact a leash law. The council heard presentations from four citizens on topics like downtown Christmas lights; a property lien the city holds following demolition of a house; cable television reception in the lake Trenton area; […]
An investigation by the Chillicothe Police Department, the Livingston County Sheriff’s Office, and the Missouri State Highway Patrol resulted in the arrest of a 35-year-old Chillicothe man on drug charges. The police department reports a Livingston County search warrant was executed in the 200 block of East Bridge Street in Chillicothe after a report of […]
The Route DD Bridge over Interstate 29 in Buchanan County at Faucett (Exit 35) has been removed and the new bridge construction has already begun. Contractors from Emery Sapp and Sons of Columbia, working with the Missouri Department of Transportation demolished the old bridge over the weekend of Aug. 26. As construction of the new […]
Scheduled road work on Route CC in Harrison and Grundy counties was pushed back from starting at the beginning of May to the end of May. The Missouri Department of Transportation Northwest District Maintenance and Traffic Engineer Tonya Lohman tells that Herzog, a contractor out of Saint Joseph, was awarded the contract for the project. […]
Charges have been filed in Livingston County against the alleged driver of a car being pursued, from which a fugitive exited and jumped into the Grand River near Chillicothe Saturday afternoon. Sheriff Steve Cox said the female driver arrested at the scene was 40-year-old Wanita J. Bowman of 417 Dickinson at Chillicothe. Her charges include […]
Those traveling Highway 36 west are in for traffic delays and backups as the Missouri State Highway Patrol confirms as of Noon today, that a tractor trailer truck crash has closed part of westbound Highway 36 in Linn County, west of Brookfield. A highway patrol spokesperson from the Troop B Headquarters in Macon says the truck […]
While it took a bit longer than originally planned, the Brushy Creek Bridge on Route P in Mercer County is now open. Contractors from Ennis Excavating, LLC of Jamestown, Missouri, working with the Missouri Department of Transportation, closed the bridge Dec. 5, 2016, for a bridge replacement project. They originally hoped to open the bridge […]
The South Branch Shoal Creek Bridge on Route CC in Putnam County will be replaced this Spring. The Missouri Department of Transportation and Chester Bross Construction Company of Palmyra contractors plan to close Route CC March 13th through mid-May. MoDOT reports motorists will need to seek an alternate route during the project. Work will be […]
Residents around the Brushy Creek Bridge on Route P in Mercer County will have to use an alternate route around the bridge closure for just a bit longer. Contractors from Ennis Excavating, LLC of Jamestown, Missouri, working with the Missouri Department of Transportation, closed the bridge Dec. 5, 2016, for a bridge replacement project. They […]
In-depth under-bridge inspections are part of the Missouri Department of Transportation’s program of inspection, repair, and maintenance of the more than 10,000 bridges across the state. This program ensures the bridges are kept in the best possible condition for as long as possible for all those that travel across Missouri’s roadways. Several bridges in Northwest […]
A bridge in Mercer County on Route P over Brushy Creek is to be replaced. The bridge is scheduled to be closed from 8 o’clock this morning December 5 until early February. Ennis Excavating of Jamestown, Missouri is the contractor who will be working on the bridge which was built in 1955. Motorists will need […]
A MoDOT official credits mild and dry weather for allowing two bridge deck replacements on U.S. 36 at Cameron to be completed earlier than expected. Area Engineer Tonya Lohman said it was hoped the projects would be Area Engineer Tonya Lohman said it was hoped the projects would be done before Christmas but actually they were completed before […]
There is good news for those who use the U.S. Route 36 interchange at Interstate 35 in Cameron. Contractors from Emery Sapp and Sons, Inc., working with the Missouri Department of Transportation, plan to open both lanes in each direction to all traffic at the interchange after a bridge deck replacement project. Traffic has been […]
Although the new Charlie Dye bridge was opened up to traffic a few days ago, a ribbon cutting was held at the site late this morning. The ceremony attracted representatives of the Trenton Chamber of Commerce, the chamber ambassadors, the Grundy county commission, county clerk, and Missouri Department of Transporation in addition to members of the […]
The Chillicothe Street Department plans to close a portion of Polk Street on Monday morning to smooth the ends of a new bridge in eastern Chililcothe. The project includes milling and adding hot mix to smooth the ends of the bridge caused by the settling of dirt under the bridge approaches. The street closure goes […]
The proposed 17th Street bridge replacement project in Trenton has hit another funding challenge as earlier this month, Trenton City Clerk and interim Administrator Cindy Simpson said the project did not receive a federal grant being sought. At the meeting last night, Simpson noted Governor Nixon has cut funding for a Missouri Department of Transportation program […]
