Not Its Greatest Problem May 24, 2008
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch :
Turning streets into ‘Great Streets’
Outside Terry Gannon’s real estate office on Natural Bridge Road, schoolchildren walk home on uneven sidewalks, past nondescript buildings along the five-lane road. The street, which runs past the University of Missouri-St. Louis, is not pedestrian-friendly, she said.
“It’s just kind of boring,” Gannon added. “The state never cuts the grass. People throw trash out their window.”
She and other property owners in Normandy want more.
They are hoping for direction from East-West Gateway Council of Governments, which has selected their stretch of Natural Bridge, between Lucas & Hunt Road and UMSL, as one of four streets for the Great Streets Initiative.
The planning organization has hired consultants to work with property owners and governments to transform their streets into more walkable, bicycle-friendly areas with better traffic flow.
Sure, because bicycling or walking along Natural Bridge between Lucas & Hunt and UMSL is really way up there on my life’s to-do list. For that stretch of road, knit-picking about its pedestrian or bike friendliness is like arguing about how to drain the swamp when you’re already up to your neck in gators.
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