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Work on New River Span at St. Louis Back on Track
EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. (AP) -- Construction of a new Mississippi River bridge linking southwestern Illinois to Missouri near East St. Louis is back on track after being slowed earlier this year by high river levels.

Missouri Department of Transportation project chief Greg Horn says crews have made up the 81 days lost to flooding in the spring and summer.

The first new Mississippi River bridge in the congestion-plagued area in some four decades is likely to open by 2014.

The four-lane, cable-stayed span will divert Interstate 70 traffic from an existing bridge that's one of two in the nation that accommodate three freeways.

The $670 million plan also allows for the bridge, which is designed to be two lanes in each direction, to be expanded by a lane each way.

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