This highway project was made possible by a federal Infrastructure for Rebuilding America (INFRA) grant in combination with the replacement of the I-70 Missouri River Bridge at Rocheport in Boone and Cooper Counties. The ESS Team is comprised of Emery Sapp and Sons serving as the prime contractor and Bartlett and West providing design services.

The Champ Clark Bridge, built in 1928, is part of the U.S. Route 54 corridor and spans the Mississippi River connecting Louisiana, Missouri with the state of Illinois. The bridge, built in 1928, is named after James Beauchamp Clark, a former Speaker of the House from Bowling Green, Missouri. Clark served as Speaker from 1911 to 1919. The bridg...

The project will improve nineteen (19) bridges along the I-44 corridor between Sarcoxie and Halltown (Mile Markers 29-58). The work includes replacing 12 bridges and performing major rehabilitation work to seven others. Many of these bridges were constructed in the 1960s as I-44 was completed between the Illinois and Oklahoma state lines. Over the ...