Route FF bridge closing for reconstruction

TONY BROWN/DAILY FORUM
The Route FF bridge over Clear Creek three miles north of Highway 71 will close for replacement starting March 14. Work at the site by a Missouri Department of Transportation contractor is expected to last through April.

Route FF in Nodaway County, a north-south black top north of Maryville that connects Highway 71 with Route B, will close Monday, March 14, at the Clear Creek bridge for about six weeks while the one-lane span is replaced by the Missouri Department of Transportation.

According to a MoDOT release, Widel Inc. of Blackwater has been contracted to replace the aging bridge, which is expected to remain closed to traffic through April.

The bridge, which crosses the south fork of Clear Creek, is located about three miles north of Highway 71.

MoDOT advises that the work schedule is weather permitting and subject to change.

The shortest detour around the worksite consists of gravel roads. Southbound motorists can turn east on 200th Street and then south on Hallmark Road back to FF. Northbound drivers can continue north on Hallmark from FF and then turn west on 200th.

Motorists wishing to reach Route B from south of the construction site and stay on pavement can either take Highway 148 from Maryville or Highway 113 to Burlington Junction, then turn east on Highway 136 before continuing north on Highway 71.

For more information, call the MoDOT help line at 888.275.6636 or go to www.modot.org/northwest to view an online highway status map.