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Giant downtown St. Louis hole keeps I-44 closed through at least next weekend 3%
By Jason Rosenbaum0%
6/19/2026, 9:40:33 PM
BS Summary: This article contains 12 faulty reasoning types, including Appeal to Authority, Unattributed Quote, and Framing Effect, with Biased Writer Voice as the most egregious example at 23% saturation with 62 hits. Analysis detected 380 faulty-reasoning hits from 269 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 16.2% and a BS Rank of 3% (19,765 of 20,370 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 97.00% of the article peer group.
The Missouri Department of Transportation said on Friday that Interstate 44 between the Stan Musial Veterans Memorial Bridge and the Poplar Street Bridge will remain closed as plans to fix the hole are being reworked.
Materials for initial plans were not readily available and would have delayed the reopening for many weeks, MoDOT said in a press release.
The Metropolitan Sewer District and the City of St.
Louis have moved to a different method to minimize the length of the highway closure.
MoDOT said that new initial design work is being submitted but that it will take time to implement this plan to the point that the department can once again safely reopen the interstate.
More information will be shared as it is available, the department said.
MoDOT said the Eads Bridge remains open.
But it said the following roads are closed as a precaution:
I-44 westbound at Tucker Boulevard/Stan Musial Veterans Memorial Bridge.
Traffic can take Exit 249B to Tucker.
Vehicles can also take eastbound I-70 across the Stan Musial Veterans Memorial Bridge, which remains open.
I-44 eastbound at the Poplar Street Bridge.
Traffic can continue eastbound across the Poplar Street Bridge at Exit 291A.
Eastbound I-70 express lanes at Union Boulevard.
South Broadway in both directions at Biddle.
From Illinois, the westbound I-64 ramp to eastbound I-44.
From Illinois, westbound Martin Luther King Bridge traffic will only have access to downtown.
The 30-foot-wide cave-in opened underneath I-44.
The St.
Louis Water Division attributed the chasm to broken water mains and an aging water infrastructure.
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