Thousands Celebrate Opening of Route 141 and Page-Olive Connector

Families, dogs, runners, bicyclists, rollerbladers and proud government and traffic officials all enjoyed the completion of this major road project. Have you seen it yet?

The new Route 141 through West County and the Page-Olive Connector are now open to traffic. Thousands of walkers, runners, bicyclists and rollerbladers came out on a hot, sunny Saturday morning to celebrate the opening of the Route 141 and Page-Olive Connector with traffic-free access to the road. (Sign up here for the FREE Patch Newsletter, including Breaking News Alerts.) The day, 30-plus years in the making, started with a “Run to Get It Done” 10-kilometer run and walk at 7:30 a.m., followed by open access to approximately three miles of north and south Missouri Route 141 between Parkway Central High School to the south and Interstate 364 to the north. “We’ve been watching it for years,” Kathleen Hall of Chesterfield said as she and her…

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New Route 141 Opens This Weekend; WB I-64 Lanes Close Downtown

The Missouri Department of Transportation will open the new Route 141 this weekend and the Page-Olive connector.

Relocated Route 141 and Page-Olive Connector to Open The Missouri Department of Transportation and St. Louis County will celebrate the completion of two projects with a joint ribbon cutting event on Saturday, July 14. Both the relocated Route 141 and the Page-Olive Connector projects will open Saturday afternoon. The public is cordially invited to join MoDOT and the county for a morning's worth of events. They include a 10K run; open walking, running and cycling on the new roadway; and a ribbon cutting ceremony at 10 a.m. (Sign up here for the FREE Patch Newsletter, including Breaking News Alerts.) Parking for the event will be at the Parkway Central High School complex. Shuttle service will be available from the complex to the ceremony …

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Woods Mill Road Closing After New Route 141 Opens

A portion of Woods Mill Road will close after the new Route 141 opens to West County traffic this Saturday.

The Missouri Department of Transportation will close a section of Woods Mill Road after the new stretch of Route 141 opens to traffic this Saturday. (Sign up here for the FREE Patch Newsletter, including Breaking News Alerts.) "The section, between the Parkway Central School campus and Ladue Road, as well as the currently closed section of Woods Mill Road between Ladue and St. Luke’s will remain closed until crews finish building the new connection with Ladue Road," MoDOT stated in a news release. Some of that portion that will be closed in currently within the jurisdiction of Town and Country. The city's portion of Route 141 begins just south of Clayton Road and runs north through the Conway Road intersection. Route 141 then falls under …

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Route 141 Is Work Zone; July 14 Opens for Pedestrians

Take a quick look at the state of the giant re-routing and Woods Mill Road.

Temporary signs and orange cones show you how to proceed through a jumble of roads and ramps, while drivers await the official opening July 14 of Route 141 just north of Highway 40/64 at Woods Mill Road. The Missouri Department of Transportation intends to open the roads for car traffic by noon July 14. First, there's an early-morning celebration Saturday on the new interchange, flyover, underpass—whatever description you prefer. The ribbon-cutting events will allow pedestrians, runners and bicyclists on the roads exclusively from 7-11am.  A 10K run named after what sounds like a Blue Collar Comedy Tour quip begins at 7:30am: "Route 141 Run to Get it Done 10K." After that, it's vehicles-only terrain. MoDOT is in charge of the project. The …

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Manchester's Update on MoDOT Mowing Issue

The City of Manchester's public works director said although the city is grateful for MoDOT's concessions, but there is still more to be done.

Manchester Aldermen received an update from Manchester Public Works Department Director Bob Ruck this week on the ongoing issue of the city's dissatisfaction with the way the Missouri Department of Transportation is maintaining its grass along Route 141 and neighboring streets.  (See previous articles below for more details.) Ruck offered a recap of the events which recently led up to MoDOT reevaluating its current mowing of Route 141 in Manchester. MoDOT and state leaders toured the area in June, then MoDOT gave the City of Manchester a June 22 deadine by which it would give its decision on what, if any, options it could offer as a solution to solve the grass cutting concerns. MoDOT told Patch it decided it will not offer additional …

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MoDOT Tells Manchester it Will Not Cut More Grass

MoDOT is not going to cut more grass along Route 141, but tells Patch is plans to do a better job. This is not the answer some Manchester city leaders wanted to hear.

As previously reported by Patch, Manchester city leaders are not satisfied with the Missouri Department of Transportation's  maintenance of its grass along Highway 141 through the City of Manchester.  MoDOT is cutting only 15 feet along Highway 141 and 15 feet from a resident's property, but then leaving the rest of the land as weeds. This is all that is required of MoDOT. Manchester city leaders also say the the grass MoDOT is cutting looks sloppy and aldermen want a better, more manicured mowing job along the state highway and residents homes. (Follow Patch on Facebook for updates- check out our page and "Like" it here.) At the end of May, after going back and forth with MoDOT, Manchester sent the department and state leaders a letter …

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Manchester Sending MoDOT, State Leaders a Message About Mowing

Manchester aldermen are unhappy with the way MoDOT is cutting its grass along Highway 141. They say it's dangerous and they're asking state leaders for help.

Manchester aldermen are not happy with the way the Missouri Department of Transportation is maintaining the grass along Highway 141.  The issue, according to some aldermen, is that MoDOT is cutting only 15 feet along Highway 141 and 15 feet from a resident's property, but then leaving the rest of the land as weeds. This is all that is required of MoDOT. Aldermen said at a recent Manchester Board of Aldermen meeting that they've essentially hit a wall and are not getting a satisfactory resolution from MoDOT, so the city will now send a letter to MoDOT and Missouri State leaders to express their dissatisfaction. "How can we tell residents they must keep their grass less than 10 inches or be cited by the city, and yet, we have to put up with …

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New 141 and Page-Olive Connector: On Schedule for July 1

Both sections of the work are online to be completed this summer, very close to the same time.

Trips from West County to Page Avenue and the Maryland Heights Expressway should go more smoothly after July 1. That’s when the new Route 141, between Ladue Road and Olive Boulevard, and the Page-Olive Connector, between Olive and the Maryland Heights Expressway, are scheduled for completion. Work is on track for both, according to the Missouri Department of Transportation and St. Louis County. The new highways, located a couple miles west of Interstate 270, will take some north-south traffic, especially that going to St. Charles County via the Page extension. (The Page extension is also known as Route 364.) The southern section, Route 141, is a MoDOT project. The Page-Olive Connector, to the north, is a St. Louis County Department of …

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Late Opening For Ladue Road at Highway 141 Thursday

Initially scheduled to open before evening rush hour. Ladue Road at Highway 141 will still reopen Thursday, but not before rush hour as planned. Check out the new route.

UPDATED: Thursday, Dec. 1- Initially scheduled to open before evening rush hour Thursday, MoDOT said Ladue Road at Highway 141 will reopen Thursday, but not before rush hour as planned. Check out the new route. READ ORIGINAL STORY: The following information was supplied by The Missouri Department of Transportation. The Missouri Department of Transportation  and its contractor, Fred Weber Inc., will reopen the closed portion of Ladue Road east of the new lanes of Route 141 before evening rush hour on Thursday, Dec. 1, weather permitting. As part of the Ladue Road reopening, traffic patterns will change significantly around the Route 141 project.  All Route 141 traffic will move to the new Route 141 lanes between Conway Road and the Parkway …

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Chesterfield To Give Away 44 Acres to Town and Country, Creve Coeur

Chesterfield will lose land, but all of the new section of Hwy 141 will be in Chesterfield.

Along Highway 141, the Chesterfield city limits stop at Conway Road where it meets Town and Country city limits. Much of the new section of Highway 141 from Ladue Road north for three-quarters of mile is in Town and Country. That means half of the ramps to get on and off Highway 141 would be in Chesterfield and the other half in Town and Country. So Chesterfield wants to change that and swap property with cities, and lose 44 acres in the process. City officials said the idea has been floated for some 20 years, and was contingent on building the new Highway 141. On Highway 141, if the city limits were left alone as you drove north, you would enter Chesterfield, then re-enter Town and Country and then re-enter Chesterfield. Further north, on…

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