TRAFFIC ALERT: Route 141 Traffic Shifting Tuesday

MoDOT is shifting lanes on West County'a Route 141 Tuesday between Olive Boulevard and St. Luke's Hospital Road.

The Missouri Department of Transportation sent out the traffic alert in a news release Tuesday. (Sign up here for the FREE Patch Newsletter, including Breaking News Alerts.) The changes to lanes on Route 141 in West County are taking place just before noon Tuesday.  Road crews are shifting southbound traffic so they can work building a concrete barrier between lanes on that stretch of road. More details on Tuesday's lane changes are in the following news alert sent out by MoDOT. The Missouri Department of Transportation will shift southbound traffic on Route 141 between Olive Boulevard and St. Lukes Hospital Road as part of ongoing construction for the Route 141 project. Crews will shift traffic to the right, splitting traffic around the …

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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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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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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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Three More Weeks of Construction on Woods Mill, Hwy 141 and Ladue Road

If all goes as planned, three big traffic shifts happen Nov. 22.

In three weeks, on Nov. 22, anyone who drives Woods Mill-Highway 141 between Conway Road and Olive Boulevard, or Ladue Road at the 141 intersection should see a change, and feel relief that heavy construction may be over. The Missouri Department of Transportaion (MoDOT) believes new bypasses and links among the old and new roads will open up for traffic.  “In a perfect world, at the exact same time,” according to MoDOT Resident Engineer Jesse Jonas, three things will happen Nov. 22—a Tuesday. “This is where it gets crazy. A lot happens then,”  Jonas said. When those three things happen, traffic will be in the configuration it will be in for most of the duration of the rest of the project. Shifting north-south traffic onto the new Route 141…

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Glove Prompts Woods Mill Schnucks Meat Recall

The Town and Country Schnucks store is recalling ground beef and sausage bought between 9 a.m. and 8 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 1.

The Schnucks store located at 1060 Woods Mill Road in Town and Country issued a recall for ground beef and sausage bought between 9 a.m. and 8 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 1. In a news release, the store stated it is issuing the precautionary recall after a plastic glove was found in the grinder during cleaning on Saturday night. Customers may return the recalled meat to the store for a full refund. The store issued the following press release on Sunday, Oct. 2. ST. LOUIS – Schnuck Markets, Inc. has issued a precautionary recall on all Schnucks brand ground beef and sausage sold between 9 a.m. and 8 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 1, 2011 at its Woods Mill store at 1060 Woods Mill Road (63017). The ground beef has a sell-by date of Oct. 2, 2011, and the …

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