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Photos: Lambert Airport's "Dramatic Makeover" Will Take Five Months, Add New Retail

By Sam Levin Fri., Feb. 1 2013 at 12:25 PM
Categories: Community, News, Planes, Trains and Automobiles

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The future is here. Big renderings below.
Will this solve Lambert Airport's inferiority complex?

Officials have announced that the retail shopping scene of St. Louis' international airport will undergo a "dramatic makeover" through a ten-year contract that starts today with Hudson Group, the travel retailer. Hudson will reopen a majority of the existing retail locations and over the next five months will build out thirteen locations, featuring not only some "top national brands," but also "exclusive local concepts as well."

Get excited.

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The Four Worst Traffic Jams of 2013 in St. Louis

By Aimee Levitt Wed., Jan. 16 2013 at 8:00 AM
Categories: Planes, Trains and Automobiles

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MoDOT, bless its cold, gravelly little heart, announced yesterday the worst traffic jams of 2013, uh, wait, make that its largest construction projects for the upcoming year. Huzzah! It's so rare when you know in advance what you'll be bitching and moaning about.

You'd think that surviving the two-year-long Highway 40 makeover would have toughened us up, but who is ever sanguine in the middle of a traffic jam when they're running late? Or even when they're not running late? Cars were meant to move, people!

MoDOT has little sympathy. As district engineer Ed Hassinger told KTVI (Channel 2), "Work zones are going to start up so people need to get off their phones, figure out how to drive, and be careful in those work zones." Aw snap!

After the jump, the four biggest road projects:

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Daniel Boone Bridge, I-270, I-64, I-70, MoDOT, road construction, roadwork, Tower Grove Interchange, traffic
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[VIDEOS] Blanchette Bridge Explosion-fest!

By Nicholas Phillips Wed., Dec. 5 2012 at 7:01 AM
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Boom goes the dynamite.
The westbound Blanchette Bridge was definitively blown up yesterday.

This allowed the $63 million renovation project go forward (and allowed taxpayers to pretend they were at Universal Studios).

For the time being, the eastbound span alone will perform double-duty and allow I-70 motorists to keep crossing the Missouri River between St. Louis and St. Charles.

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Driver Killed in Crash After Trying to Avoid Dead Deer

By Nicholas Phillips Thu., Nov. 15 2012 at 8:36 AM
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Driver dies trying to avoid dead deer in Imperial
On Wednesday morning, Keith A. Labitska was driving north on I-55 in his 2005 Chevy Malibu, according to the Missouri State Highway Patrol.

The 41-year-old from Imperial saw a dead deer in the roadway near the Imperial Main exit just after 8 am.

He swerved off to the right, left the road and struck a bridge.

He was pronounced dead shortly thereafter.

The MSHP's report states that Labitska was wearing his seat belt.

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Headed to the East Side for Halloween Revelry? Don't Take I-64. It'll Be Closed.

By Nicholas Phillips Wed., Oct. 31 2012 at 8:32 AM
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Better take I-44 across the PSB for this kind of trick-or-treating
For those of you Halloweenies who enjoy when people take off their costumes more than when they put them on, know this:

You can't get to the East Side tonight via I-64 (a.k.a. "Highway 40.")

It'll be closed between Jefferson Avenue and the Poplar Street Bridge from 8 pm Wednesday until 5:30 am Thursday, sayeth the Missouri Department of Transportation.

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Passenger on Bird-Stricken AA Flight Describes "Acrid, Panicky Reek of Burning Plastic"

By Nicholas Phillips Tue., Oct. 30 2012 at 10:39 AM
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Watch out birdies!
Last Friday evening, American Airlines flight 1186 roared out of Lambert International Airport, headed for Chicago-O'Hare. But by the time it hit 5,000 feet, it had collided with a bird, and had to turn back (this has happened at Lambert more than a couple dozen times so far this year).

Here's how it felt -- more like "smelt" -- in the cabin, according to passenger Melissa Meinzer (a former RFT staff writer who now reports for Missouri Lawyer's Weekly; she was trying to get to Boston.)

Daily RFT: So how did you know the plane hit a bird?

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