Road work near Mount Vernon completed

Missouri is building bridges, or at least fixing them. Road work that was being conducted on the Lawrence County Road bridge over I-44 west of Mount Vernon near Mile Marker 42.6 has been completed. The bridge closed when work to replace the bridge deck/driving surface began in February.

This work is part of a three-year project to improve 25 bridges within 15 miles of I-44 across the Southwest District. Of the 25 bridges in the project, known as the I-44 Corridor Bridge Bundle, seven are mainline I-44 bridges, five are I-44 overpass bridges and the remaining bridges are on adjacent routes over various features. Sixteen bridges will be replaced and nine bridges will receive major rehabilitation work.

So far, 21 bridges have been completed in this project.