St. Louis has a shortage of number of lanes that crosses the Mississippi River. To address that problem, it has been proposed to move I-70 off of the Popular Street Bridge and build a new I-70 cable stayed bridge just north of downtown. This new river crossing was officially named the Ronald Wilson Reagan Memorial Bridge on August 28, 2005.

The project went through a design phase that picked a sleek cable stayed bridge and associated highway projects totaling $1.6-billion. The bridge featured a 2,000 foot main span that entirely cleared the Mississippi River. The key architectural feature would be the two slender towers soaring 510 feet into the air configured to arch back

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