- Blanchette Memorial Bridge
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bridge_name= Blanchette Memorial Bridge
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carries= 10 lanes ofInterstate 70
crosses=Missouri River
locale= St. Louis County and St. Charles County inMissouri
maint=Missouri Department of Transportation
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design= Cantilever
mainspan= 146.3 m (480 ft)
length= 1,244 m (4,083 ft)
width= WB: 18.3 m (60 ft)
EB: 20.7 m (68 ft)
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traffic= 165,000 [ [http://www.modot.mo.gov/stlouis/news_and_information/rte364firstbday.htm Route 364 First Birthday ] ]
open= WB:1958
EB:1978
closed=
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lat= 38.765
long= -90.482The Blanchette Memorial Bridge are two twin
cantilever bridge s carryingInterstate 70 across theMissouri River between St. Louis County and St. Charles County,Missouri , opened in 1959. Handling an average of 165,000 vehicle transits per day, it is the area's busiest bridge. Construction of the first interstate highway project under provisions of the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956 started west of the bridge's present location. A sign commemorating the site of the nation's first interstate project stands next to Interstate 70 just east of theMissouri Route 94 /First Capitol Drive overpass.The bridge is named for French Canadian fur trader and hunter
Louis Blanchette , who founded St. Charles as a post along the Missouri River; the village was the first European settlement along this waterway.ee also
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List of crossings of the Missouri River References
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structure = Crossings
place =Missouri River
bridge = Blanchette Memorial Bridge
bridge signs =
upstream = Veterans Memorial Bridge
upstream signs =
downstream =Old St. Charles Bridge (demolished)
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