Highway 40 | Living St. Louis
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- Опубликовано: 10 сен 2024
- Living St. Louis producer Patrick Murphy looks at the history of Interstate 64/Highway 40 and the construction in its future. Beginning in 2007, more than 12 miles of this heavily traveled highway will be revamped.
Thankfully Chicago's first expressway, Lake Shore Drive (LSD), still has much of its art-deco style overpasses much like St. Louis had along U.S. 40.
I'm from st.louis and yes I do remember highway40 being a smaller highway back in the 80s before they expanded it
Nice segment, you don't usually see news shows talking about roads in this much detail. I'm not from Saint Louis, but I did either drive or ride the entire length of 40 from downtown to I-70 back in 2001. Though I definitely marked myself as an out-of-towner by calling it Interstate 64.
Wished somebody had every mile on camera just as it used to be! NO construction/modernization going on; just a really old, quirky, pre interstate grade freeway and all its grunge and imperfection that used to be just outside our doorstep! The former Hanley/Brentwood/170 mess with less than 3 levels of road or the Kingshighway/Hampton cloverleafs. I have it on film today, but it. just. isn't. the. same!
It's highway farty ...lol 😂 if your from STL you get it ...
I like farty-far better. I used to ride my bike on the section through Webster Groves before they opened it.
@@jamie49868 lol do u need a can of carn oh yeah 44 lol . its very wide vowels
From about 1:18 to 1:30, is that a Frontenac police car on the other side of the highway? The more things change, the more they stay the same.
My only complaint is that they didn't add a fourth through lane on the east half of the project as was the original plan.
Hanley, 170 and Brentwood are still a mess. Even when there is no traffic, from Kings Highway/Hampton all the way to McKnight is still a jam.
-good eye! Frontenac's tourist message..."and stay OUT!!" :)
I was born in the mid-60s, and grew up in old Chesterfield just 1 mile west Woods Mill and Olive St. Road and remember traveling the old highway 40 between 141 and 244 (now 270). It was a 70 mph hilly highway. Today, if you look at the north and south outer roads you can still see what it used to be before they flattened most of the interstate. Around 20 seconds into the video you can see what Highway 40 looked like in Chesterfield, however, I think the video we see there might have been west of 141/Woods Mill Road. Hmm.. It's hard to tell, but it might have been taken at Woods Mill looking east. I think most of the hilly section was in what's now known as Town and Country.
My aunt lived out off of Kerrs Mill. It was like a rollercoaster for a little kid back in the 60's and early 70's. You still get a little bit of that feeling...or maybe it's just distant memories.
"gliding through traffic..." yeah right. Try gliding through at 3pm going west from Midtown/Grand on a 95 degree day with no air conditioning. I swear I lost more brain cells during college that way than drugs/alcohol combined. lol
44W is the best way out of the city during afternoon rush. 40 sucks.
Yeah, it is pretty smooth. 55, 40 and 70 are always a mess
Just for the record, traffic still is terrible at 40 and 170.
Better believe they got that federal money, though.
Forever 40 never 64
most people still just all it 40 and Lindberg
Whenever someone says "64", I have to stop and think for a second. Lindberg is Lindberg until you get up north of Florisant and hit again off 55 down south.
That’s gona be a loss of a lot of good motercycle riding to me
To bad that Gdot can't do it!