MoDOT Project Manager Melissa Wilbers says "three to eight-hour backups are possible" when MoDOT begins a massive refurbishment of the I-70 Rocheport bridge.
The Missouri Department of Transportation will have a complete closure of Interstate 70 in both directions between I-435 and I-470/Route 291 beginning Friday, June 8 at 10:00 p.m.
Two people are seriously injured and eight others received minor injuries after a tractor-trailer sideswiped a tour bus that had pulled to the side of Interstate 70 east of Kansas City with a flat tire.