MAKING THE IMPOSSIBLE

摘要

In 1991 the missouri and Illinois departments of transportation began voicing concern about the flow of interstate traffic between downtown St. Louis and St. Clair County, Illinois. Part of the solution was to build a new interstate bridge over the Mississippi River. By 2001 the two departments had determined the ideal location for the new bridge, and they had also invested money and resources securing a record of decision regarding the project from the Federal Highway Administration that would enable them to proceed. The project had already endured its share of starts and stops, and just as it seemed to have cleared many of the hurdles common in today's large, complex transportation projects, the bridge's design and construction price tag-$451 million-arrived.