There was no fighting for air. When it came to right-of-way acquisitions and design challenges on the 1-29/35 kdCON Project, the claim for vertical space went uncontested, which certainly helped as crews wrestled with available land. Pinched in an urban/industrial environment, Missouri DOT officials had to figure out a way to modernize a 1950s floor plan, which was scuffed with short, steep ramps and short merge areas, while still abiding by a fiscally strict $245 million budget.
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