I-55/64-U.S. 40 East

The entrance ramp from I-44/55 north combines with the mainline of I-64/U.S. 40 east to expand the Poplar Street Bridge east to five overall lanes. The c/d roadway at Exit 1 separates just east of the Mississippi River for IL 3 south to Cahokia Heights and Tudor Avenue into East St. Louis.

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Views of the MacArthur Bridge and the Mississippi River to the south of the Poplar Street Bridge. Barges are usually queued along industrial riverfront.

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I-55/64-U.S. 40 enter St. Clair County, Missouri midway across the Mississippi River. The Poplar Street Bridge constitutes a 2,164 foot long deck girder bridge at a height of 92 feet above the navigation channel.¹

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Traffic partitions along I-55/64-U.S. 40 east into an express / local roadway configuration, with the outer roadway connecting to IL 3 south and Tudor Avenue in East St. Louis. IL 3 comprises a 189 mile route from Grafton southeast to Cairo.

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A railroad bridge linking the Illinois Central Railroad with the MacArthur Bridge spans the east end of the Poplar Street Bridge beyond the separation of traffic onto a pair of two lane roadways.

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Exit 1 departs the c/d roadway for IL 3 (Mississippi Avenue) south to Sauget, Cahokia Heights and Dupo. The Great River Road coincides with the route to Interstate 255 and Columbia.

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IL 3 northbound combines with I-55/64 east 1.5 miles through East St. Louis.

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The inner roadway continues uninterrupted through the exchanges with IL 3 south and the freeway spur to Tudor Avenue.

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An unnumbered exit leaves the c/d roadway for the freeway stub to Tuder Avenue south at 13th Street in the East St. Louis street grid.

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The high speed exchange with I-55/64 was built in anticipation of the planned freeway for U.S. 460 linking the Poplar Street Bridge with IL 15 (Missouri Avenue) and IL 163 at Alorton.

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Continuing along the outer roadway to the exit for 4th Street and Downtown East St. Louis. All of 4th Street, between Trendley Avenue and Missouri Avenue, was renamed Barack Obama Avenue by the East St. Louis city council on August 9, 2012.²

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Traffic leaves I-55/64 east for Barack Obama Avenue (4th Street) to River Park Drive west and Broadway south. River Park Drive leads to the Casino Queen and Eads Bridge while Broadway forms the southbound beginning of IL 15. IL 15 comprises a 148 mile route between East St. Louis and the Indiana state line at Mt. Carmel.

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The two roadways for I-55/64 and U.S. 40/IL 3 combine ahead of a viaduct spanning Main Street, a Metrolink line and River Park Drive. Exit 3 follows at a systems interchange where Interstate 64 east and IL 3 north part ways for Louisville, Kentucky and St. Clair Avenue respectively.

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A pair of wye interchanges add traffic from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Bridge eastbound to both the left side of I-55/64 east and Martin Luther King Drive south into the East St. Louis street grid.

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The ramps connecting the MLK Bridge with I-55/64 were rebuilt during construction in 2018/19.

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Traffic partitions at Exit 3 with two lanes continuing along I-55/U.S. 40 east to Collinsville and two departing for Interstate 64 east to Fairview Heights and O'Fallon.

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Interstate 55 shifts northward from I-64/IL 3 along an overlap with I-70 to Troy. The Great River Road system also coincides with I-55 north to IL 111 by Horseshoe Lake.

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I-64 continues as a commuter route to O'Fallon, and as a freight corridor east to Mount Vernon and I-57. IL 3 follows St. Clair Avenue northwest to 2nd Street at Brooklyn and 4th Street through Venice.

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I-55/70 and I-64 previously separated at what was known as the Tri-Level Interchange. The exchange was expanded with new ramps for the realignment of I-70 to the Stan Musial Veterans Memorial Bridge. The cable-stayed bridge spanning the Mississippi River opened to traffic on February 9, 2014.

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IL 203 meets I-55/70-U.S. 40 next at Exit 4 by World Wide Technology Raceway (formerly Gateway Motorsports Park). Ramps from both the I-70 mainline and adjacent 9th Street join the freeway from below the Exchange Avenue overpass built in 2013.

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