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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact: Christian Johanningmeier, Engineer - (573) 874-6373 or (573) 874-7325

One lane of Highway 63 traffic restricted Friday and Monday

COLUMBIA, MO (June 2, 2010) - Starting Friday, June 4, weather permitting, the Columbia Terminal Railroad (COLT) will make repairs to the highway-rail crossing at Highway 63. The crossing is located in north Columbia between Paris Road and Brown Station Road.

The repairs are expected to take approximately six hours for both the northbound and southbound lanes. The work will be done during the middle part of the day in order to avoid the morning and evening rush periods. Traffic on northbound Highway 63 will be restricted to one lane on Friday and one southbound lane on Monday, June 7. The existing COLT highway-rail crossing at Highway 63 will be replaced by a bridge that will be completed by Oct. 15.

The COLT is a short line railroad owned by the city of Columbia and operated by Columbia Water & Light. It provides railroad freight service to Columbia and mid-Missouri.

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