Early Thursday morning the St Louis County Highway Department decided to shut down the left turn lane from eastbound Eager Road onto northbound I-170. It's all part of MODOT's tweaking process to make traffic flow better.
They really dropped the ball on the morning rush hour, with only a couple of cones and a small sign that said that the left turn lane was closed (not that it was now illegal to make the left turn). The Brentwood Police quickly became aware of the problem, dispatched officers to the area to reroute traffic (see KSDK report).
Phone calls were made between the Police and the Highway Department and by 10 AM, St Louis County Highway Department had all kinds of signage directing drivers up to the Galleria Parkway onramp.
All in all, not a bad response time for the Highway Department. It just would have been a whole lot easier on motorists if the Highway Department would have put the correct signage up in the first place.
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