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"KMOX Petition to Name New Mississippi Bridge in Stan Musial’s Honor"
"The new Mississippi River Bridge is still nameless, although much of
Cardinal Nation agrees naming it after Stan Musial would be a great way to
honor the beloved baseball player.
Do you think the bridge should be named after Stan Musial? Sign the petition
below to share your comments with lawmakers."
Current Total Signatures: 3,258 (updated 1/24/13 at 10:00am)
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http://stlouis.cbslocal.com/2013/01/21/should-the-new-mississippi-river-bridge-honor-stan-musial
KMOX radio (1120AM)
"Workers raise a new conduit into position on the new I-70 bridge over the
Mississippi River in December, 2012. (Photo via MoDOT)"
"KMOX Radio Launches Petition For ‘Stan Musial Bridge’; Legislation Filed"
by Michael Calhoun
Monday January 21, 2013 5:16 PM
Updated at 4:24 p.m. Tuesday
ST. LOUIS (KMOX) - Missouri State Sens. John Lamping and Eric Schmitt
announced first on KMOX’s “Mark Reardon Show” that they are filing
legislation Tuesday afternoon to call the new Mississippi River bridge the
“Stan Musial Memorial Bridge.”
They also encouraged members of Cardinal Nation to go to KMOX.com/Stan and
sign a petition to urge their colleagues in both Missouri and Illinois to
make it happen.
“I think as people make their way across the Mississippi River, into St.
Louis, it would be a great welcome from a man who made everyone feel very
comfortable,” Schmitt said.
Stan’s family loves the idea.
“He really did connect east and west. When he played, the Cardinals were the
west-most team, so he really did connect the country,” Musial grandson Brian
Schwarze told KMOX. ”That would just such a great honor, to be able to have
a bridge named after him.”
Our original story:
The new Mississippi River Bridge is still nameless, although Cardinals fans
at this year’s Winter Warm-Up agree naming it after Stan Musial would be a
great way to honor the beloved baseball player.
The most common name suggested for the bridge was the Stan Musial Memorial
Bridge.
“Stan is deserving of such a monument in St. Louis. I think that ‘Stan The
Man’ bridge would be just what this city needed,” one fan said. Another
added, “You kind of use the word bridge meaning a bridge, but also a bridge
between states, a bridge between people. I think that’s very appropriate.”
In fact, every single St. Louisan KMOX spoke with agreed that Musial is a
name more fitting for the bridge than any politician because they “come and
go.”
“I would tell somebody who’d propose that, the same thing I’d tell anybody
else: go talk to your legislators,” Missouri Department of Transportation
spokesman Andrew Gates said Monday. “They’d be the ones to initiate any
proposal for a name on the bridge.”
Lawmakers in both Missouri and Illinois must pass legislation, which, so
far, they have failed to do..
Efforts in 2011 to dub it the Costello-Clay Bridge, after two veteran
Congressmen, fell short. There have also been suggestions to call it the
Women Veterans Memorial Bridge.
If no name is ever made official, Gates said “technically it’ll be the I-70
interstate bridge” over the Mississippi River.
The new bridge should be open to traffic in 2014. The bridge deck should be
completed by mid-summer, this year.
What do you think? Share your thoughts below in the comments!
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http://stlouis.cbslocal.com/2013/01/23/mccaskill-endorses-stan-musial-bridge-idea
"...Missouri State Sens. John Lamping and Eric Schmitt both of St. Louis
County announced on KMOX’s “Mark Reardon Show” that they were filing
legislation Tuesday afternoon to call the new Mississippi River bridge the
“Stan Musial Memorial Bridge.”
“I think as people make their way across the Mississippi River, into St.
Louis, it would be a great welcome from a man who made everyone feel very
comfortable,” Schmitt said.
“He really did connect east and west. When he played, the Cardinals were the
west-most team, so he really did connect the country,” Musial grandson Brian
Schwarze told KMOX. ”That would just such a great honor, to be able to have
a bridge named after him.”
"KMOX Petition to Name New Mississippi Bridge in Stan Musial’s Honor"
"The new Mississippi River Bridge is still nameless, although much of
Cardinal Nation agrees naming it after Stan Musial would be a great way to
honor the beloved baseball player.
Do you think the bridge should be named after Stan Musial? Sign the petition
below to share your comments with lawmakers."
Current Total Signatures: 3,258 (updated 1/24/13 at 10:00am)
--
http://stlouis.cbslocal.com/2013/01/21/should-the-new-mississippi-river-bridge-honor-stan-musial
KMOX radio (1120AM)
"Workers raise a new conduit into position on the new I-70 bridge over the
Mississippi River in December, 2012. (Photo via MoDOT)"
"KMOX Radio Launches Petition For ‘Stan Musial Bridge’; Legislation Filed"
by Michael Calhoun
Monday January 21, 2013 5:16 PM
Updated at 4:24 p.m. Tuesday
ST. LOUIS (KMOX) - Missouri State Sens. John Lamping and Eric Schmitt
announced first on KMOX’s “Mark Reardon Show” that they are filing
legislation Tuesday afternoon to call the new Mississippi River bridge the
“Stan Musial Memorial Bridge.”
They also encouraged members of Cardinal Nation to go to KMOX.com/Stan and
sign a petition to urge their colleagues in both Missouri and Illinois to
make it happen.
“I think as people make their way across the Mississippi River, into St.
Louis, it would be a great welcome from a man who made everyone feel very
comfortable,” Schmitt said.
Stan’s family loves the idea.
“He really did connect east and west. When he played, the Cardinals were the
west-most team, so he really did connect the country,” Musial grandson Brian
Schwarze told KMOX. ”That would just such a great honor, to be able to have
a bridge named after him.”
Our original story:
The new Mississippi River Bridge is still nameless, although Cardinals fans
at this year’s Winter Warm-Up agree naming it after Stan Musial would be a
great way to honor the beloved baseball player.
The most common name suggested for the bridge was the Stan Musial Memorial
Bridge.
“Stan is deserving of such a monument in St. Louis. I think that ‘Stan The
Man’ bridge would be just what this city needed,” one fan said. Another
added, “You kind of use the word bridge meaning a bridge, but also a bridge
between states, a bridge between people. I think that’s very appropriate.”
In fact, every single St. Louisan KMOX spoke with agreed that Musial is a
name more fitting for the bridge than any politician because they “come and
go.”
“I would tell somebody who’d propose that, the same thing I’d tell anybody
else: go talk to your legislators,” Missouri Department of Transportation
spokesman Andrew Gates said Monday. “They’d be the ones to initiate any
proposal for a name on the bridge.”
Lawmakers in both Missouri and Illinois must pass legislation, which, so
far, they have failed to do..
Efforts in 2011 to dub it the Costello-Clay Bridge, after two veteran
Congressmen, fell short. There have also been suggestions to call it the
Women Veterans Memorial Bridge.
If no name is ever made official, Gates said “technically it’ll be the I-70
interstate bridge” over the Mississippi River.
The new bridge should be open to traffic in 2014. The bridge deck should be
completed by mid-summer, this year.
What do you think? Share your thoughts below in the comments!
--
http://stlouis.cbslocal.com/2013/01/23/mccaskill-endorses-stan-musial-bridge-idea
"...Missouri State Sens. John Lamping and Eric Schmitt both of St. Louis
County announced on KMOX’s “Mark Reardon Show” that they were filing
legislation Tuesday afternoon to call the new Mississippi River bridge the
“Stan Musial Memorial Bridge.”
“I think as people make their way across the Mississippi River, into St.
Louis, it would be a great welcome from a man who made everyone feel very
comfortable,” Schmitt said.
“He really did connect east and west. When he played, the Cardinals were the
west-most team, so he really did connect the country,” Musial grandson Brian
Schwarze told KMOX. ”That would just such a great honor, to be able to have
a bridge named after him.”
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