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Send A view of the Hernando de Soto Bridge carrying I-40 from Arkansas into Tennessee, as seen from the Bass Pro Lookout atop the Memphis Pyramid. (Larry Kuzniewski)
No official has given a hard date for when the six-lane Interstate 40 bridge across the Mississippi River will reopen for traffic, but it is beginning to look like the end of July is a good bet.
On July 2, the Arkansas Department of Transportation posted on its website page dedicated to the bridge that the goal was to reopen the bridge to traffic by the end of the month. On July 6, the department said the repairs to the initial fracture had been completed.
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Metroplan all aboard 30 Crossing endeavor
Completion top regional priority, it says
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Noel Oman
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Today at 3:11 a.m.
Demolition of the 9th Street bridge over Interstate 30, part of the 30 Crossing project, continues Saturday, July 10, 2021 in Little Rock. All lanes between 6th Street and the Interstate 630 interchange will remain closed through Monday morning, weather permitting.
(Arkansas Democrat-Gazette/Staci Vandagriff)
The Metroplan board of directors has provided a full-throated endorsement for the full funding and completion of the 30 Crossing project without delay, calling the nearly $1 billion project its primary regional priority.
The board was responding to a request from the Arkansas Department of Transportation asking for its project recommendations and priorities to be included in its latest planning document, called the 2023-26 Statewide Transportation Improvement Program, also known as the STIP.
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State verifies grass discovered on U.S. 49 an invasive species
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The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
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Today at 1:44 a.m.
The presence in Arkansas of cogongrass, an invasive species native to Southeast Asia, has been confirmed, according to the state Department of Agriculture.
The department said in a news release that Charles Bryson, a retired botanist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, spotted cogongrass, or Imperata cylindrica, in Helena-West Helena along U.S. 49. Bryson s discovery prompted officials with the Agriculture Department, the Arkansas Natural Heritage Commission and the Arkansas Department of Transportation to spray the area with herbicide. A survey of the immediate area detected no other cogongrass populations.