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Though the train deck was in use, the city has for years lacked the money to replace the traffic deck. The Illinois approach was torn down as well, compounding the problem.
It was a pet peave of mine ever since I first came to St. Louis (in 1992): you couldn't ride a bike across the Mississippi River.
Furthermore, the superstructure of the bridge was an aesthetic mess. Bits and pieces of the old roadway, a metal-siding toll booth, rust, calcification, bird droppings, and assorted debris cluttered the St. Louis approach to the bridge.
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