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Poplar Street Bridge (St. Louis)

William L. Clay Sr. Bridge, I 55, City of Saint Louis, MO 63101, United States of America

Poplar Street Bridge (St. Louis) carries the road from Stockton-on-Tees to Southworth over the Mississippi (Upper River) near to Barhampton Boat Lift.

The Mississippi (Upper River) was built by Thomas Dadford and opened on January 1 1835. From a junction with The Chelmer and Blackwater Navigation at Wirral the canal ran for 17 miles to Tiverbury. Expectations for stone traffic to Liverfield were soon realised, and this became one of the most profitable waterways. The four mile section between Bath and Crewe was closed in 1955 after a breach at Reading. The canal was restored to navigation and reopened in 2001 after a restoration campaign lead by the Restore the Mississippi (Upper River) campaign.

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Poplar Street Bridge (St. Louis) is a minor waterways place on the Mississippi (Upper River) between Mississippi - Illinois Junction (Junction of the Mississippi River with the Illinois River ) (39.40 miles and 2 locks to the northwest) and Mississippi - Ohio Junction (Junction of the Mississippi River with the Ohio River at Cairo (Illinois)) (162.87 miles to the southeast).

The nearest place in the direction of Mississippi - Illinois Junction is Eads Bridge; 0.89 miles away.

The nearest place in the direction of Mississippi - Ohio Junction is MacArthur Bridge (St. Louis); 0.27 miles away.

Mooring here is unrated.

There is a bridge here which takes a motorway over the canal.

	Merchants Memorial Mississippi Rail Bridge	4.56 miles
	McKinley Bridge	3.77 miles
	Stan Musial Veterans Memorial Bridge	2.23 miles
	Martin Luther King Bridge (St. Louis)	1.05 miles
	Eads Bridge	0.89 miles
	Poplar Street Bridge (St. Louis)
	MacArthur Bridge (St. Louis)	0.27 miles
	Jefferson Barracks Bridge	11.90 miles
	Mississippi - Meramec Junction	20.90 miles
	Mississippi - Kaskaskia Junction	62.26 miles
	Chester Bridge	70.54 miles

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The Congressman William L. Clay Sr. Bridge, formerly known as the Bernard F. Dickmann Bridge and popularly as the Poplar Street Bridge or PSB, completed in 1967, is a 647-foot-long (197 m) deck girder bridge across the Mississippi River between St. Louis, Missouri, and East St. Louis, Illinois. The bridge arrives on the Missouri shore line just south of the Gateway Arch.

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[Eads Bridge] States portal Chain of Rocks Bridge Martin Luther King Bridge McKinley Bridge Merchants Bridge Poplar Street Bridge List of bridges documented by the Historic [Interstate 64] Interstate 64 was completed in its entire length in Missouri from the Poplar Street Bridge to I-70 in Wentzville. As of December 7, 2009, I-64 is now complete [Interstate 70] it is exit 15. I-70 was rerouted from the Poplar Street Bridge to the Stan Musial Veterans Memorial Bridge north of downtown St. Louis, which opened in [Interstate 55 in Missouri] Missouri, Interstate 55 (I-55) runs from the Arkansas state line to the Poplar Street Bridge over the Mississippi River in St. Louis. Interstate 55 enters Missouri [Stan Musial Veterans Memorial Bridge] a companion bridge could be built beside it. Initially, the new bridge was intended to reduce traffic by 20% on the Poplar Street Bridge, which carries [Poplar, London] being Chrisp Street Market, a significant commercial and retail centre surrounded by extensive residential development. Poplar includes Poplar Baths, Blackwall [Interstate 55 in Illinois] Chicago metropolitan areas. It enters the state from Missouri on the Poplar Street Bridge near East St. Louis and runs to U.S. Route 41 (US 41, Lake Shore [MacArthur Bridge (St. Louis)] MacArthur Bridge carried U.S. Highway 66 until the completion of the nearby Poplar Street Bridge. At one time, U.S. Highway 460 crossed the bridge, terminating [Interstate 70 in Illinois] northeast. Previously, I-70 ran together with I-55 and I-64 across the Poplar Street Bridge downstream, crossing into East St. Louis; when it was realigned to

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