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Public Works Director:
Chad Birdsong
103 E. Water St.
Excelsior Springs, MO 64024
To contact the Public Works Department, please call (816) 630-0755.
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Two bridges on Missouri 10 — one over U.S. 69 at the west end of town, the other over the Fishing River at the east end — are scheduled for major repairs this year. During the construction projects, traffic will be rerouted using detours featured above. Click on map thumbnails for enlargements.
In addition to the two bridges listed above, others in the area that are due for work this year include the Missouri 92 bridge over Williams Creek and the Route N bridge over the Fishing River.
Work on the two bridges inside Excelsior Springs are set to get underway “this year,” according to the MoDOT flyers, but the MoDOT Web page for the Safe & Sound/800 Bridges project, www.modot.org/kansascity/safesound.htm, is more specific, placing the start date for the bridge at the west end of town at the end of March and the one at the east end soon after.
Weather permitting, each project is expected to take about 60 days, according to MoDOT estimates.
However, the detours that will be posted for these two projects are not necessarily the best for local motorists in private vehicles.
For the bridge over U.S. 69, MoDOT’s detour signs will direct drivers to use the Missouri 10 spur, going all the way to Excelsior Springs Hospital to get around the construction zone.
The bridge over the Fishing River, located at the bottom of the east end hill, has an even more circuitous detour—MoDOT’s signs will direct eastbound traffic northward on U.S. 69, then east on Route D through Lawson before continuing back to Missouri 10 on Route M.
Public Works Director Chad Birdsong said those detours are primarily intended for through traffic and commercial traffic. Those more familiar with the community could use either Crown Hill and McCleary roads or Kearney and McCleary roads to get around the bridge at the west end of town, while traffic at the east end can find a much shorter detour by using North Golf Hill and East Golf Hill drives to avoid the bridge.
While work crews repair these bridges, they will also be installing pipes that will carry geothermally-warmed water to keep the bridges ice- and snow-free next winter, MoDOT officials said at the meeting Tuesday.
The MoDOT Web site says the Missouri 92 project will start in April and be finished within 55 days. Traffic will be rerouted using U.S. 69 and Missouri 33.
The Route N project is slated for later in the year, with a July 29 start date and a 55-day work period. The detour will use Route JJ and Missouri 210.
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