The NIBMYism of the Page Extension bugs me to no end:
http://www.stltoday.com/suburban-journa ... c5e6b.html

The St. Charles County residents - in general - seem again want to have their cake and eat it too: 10-lane superhighways going where they want to go, but out of sight/sound, and definitely no increased traffic on *their* local streets.

I wish the Page extension would have never have been built in the first place. It's a sprawl generator and is rarely used.

I don't mind it at all. That road doesn't need to be extended anyway.

Presbyterian wrote:The thing about extensions is that one person's improvement is another's janky weave.

Phase 1: $350 million
Phase 2: $101 million
Phase 3: $118 million
Total: $569 million

That's some expensive weave.

Throw in St. Louis County Hwy 141/Maryland Expressway & underutilized Cross County extension and you got a mind numbing amount of infrastructure monies that has done little to make the region competitive with the rest of the counry or my take of it.

In 1978 there were as few as 8 lanes into St Charles (I-70 = 4; Rock Road = 2 (not highway); Boone Bridge = 2(not highway)). As of 2015 there will be 34 highway lanes (MO 370= 6; I-70 = 10; MO 364 = 10 and I-64 is soon to be . Just as a reference, in 1980 there was 144,000 people in St Charles, in 2010 it had 360,000.

I know its not a 1:1 relationship, nor are highways built for todays population but more on 25 and 50 year travel estimates, but number of lanes has more than quadrupled and population slightly more than doubled. When considering how massively expensive highways, arterials and especially capital river crossings are, doesn't seem like the population "growth" justifies the infrastructure expenditure.