Questions Linger After Last Weekend's Highway Collapse

KCUR | By Sylvia Maria Gross

Published July 26, 2010 at 2:56 PM CDT

They don't call it the \"Grandview Triangle\" for nothing.

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Kansas City, MO – A hundred-foot section of westbound highway 470 collapsed last weekend and miraculously, no one was injured. This week, the Missouri Department of Transportation looked into the disaster, and already signed a contract for rebuilding that portion of the highway. KCUR's Dan Verbeck followed this story last week. He gave KCUR's Sylvia Maria Gross the lowdown.

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Sylvia Maria Gross is storytelling editor at KCUR 89.3. Reach her on Twitter @pubradiosly.

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