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I-44 to reopen after downtown St. Louis cave-in forced lengthy closure 12%
By Rob Edwards0%
6/26/2026, 7:46:05 PM
BS Summary: This article contains 12 faulty reasoning types, including Availability Heuristic, Pessimism Bias, and Halo Effect, with Post Hoc (False Cause) as the most egregious example at 40% saturation with 86 hits. Analysis detected 351 faulty-reasoning hits from 215 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 28.4% and a BS Rank of 12% (18,813 of 21,174 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 88.80% of the article peer group.
The Missouri Department of Transportation plans to reopen Interstate 44 through downtown St.
Louis on Friday afternoon after completing emergency repairs to stabilize a bridge column exposed by the recent cave-in of a street under the interstate.
The stretch of I-44 between the Stan Musial Veterans Memorial Bridge and the Poplar Street Bridge has been closed since June 13, when an approximately 30-foot-long hole opened beneath the interstate near Biddle Street and North Broadway after water and sewer line failures.
During the closure, MoDOT maintenance crews completed additional improvements to the area, including repairing median barrier walls, replacing bridge joint seals, making bridge deck repairs, cleaning draining systems, removing vegetation, sweeping shoulders and covering graffiti.
While I-44 is reopening, work to repair the cave-in and shore up the area around the water main break continues.
As a result, Broadway remains closed in both directions north of Biddle Street, as does the eastbound I-44 on-ramp.
The intersection is expected to remain closed for an extended period while the Metropolitan Sewer District and the St.
Louis Water Division complete utility repairs.
Additionally, the Broadway exit (Exit 292B) from westbound I-44 also remains closed, and the eastbound I-70 express lanes will remain shut down at Union Boulevard.
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