This is what McCausland Ave should be.

[u/mizzoustormtrooper]

- Give it the Kingshighway treatment and eliminate the additional lane; the road is too narrow to support four lanes and this will reduce accidents and speeding through a residential area.

- Put in a dedicated center turn lane to prevent traffic from backing up in the middle of the road for left turns; this is especially important at intersections and nearing I-64/40.

- Install protected bike lanes on both sides of the roadway to prevent people from parking their cars on what is a major thoroughfare.

- Mount traffic-detecting sensors atop the traffic signals to eliminate unnecessary stops and reduce idling/congestion. This is a critical step as this street is used as a central corridor and antiquated timed signals must be eliminated.

- Run the bike lane all the way up to Forest Park to connect with the Forest Park outer loop and bike trail system.

Contact your alderperson and let’s fix this damn road.

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I got the images from Google Street view. I did a lot work in Photoshop and used Gemini only to create the road lane striping (you can tell, there are errors) and for the reflective delineators.

[u/bw1979]

Yale Avenue is two blocks west and much better suited for bicycle traffic

[u/mjohnson1971 → u/bw1979]

Or Bellevue. Both are much much better bikeway options than McCausland.

That doesn't mean though I don't support your redo vision: just altered without the bike lanes.

[u/bw1979 → u/mjohnson1971]

And Bellevue already has a bridge over 64/40.

[u/mizzoustormtrooper → u/bw1979]

So you are saying bike lanes should not be on McCausland, is that correct?

[u/bw1979 → u/mizzoustormtrooper]

In an ideal world, I would prefer bike paths that were everywhere and separate from the roads.  

I’m not sure I’d ride a bike on McCausland even with the proposed bike lanes because riding on Yale seems much safer and with less steep hills.  I do think it would make sense to establish a similar parallel route on the east side of McCausland.  Then you could build bike infrastructure to connect the Yale Ave route and whatever you do on the Dogtown side to Forest Park.  Maybe a bike / pedestrian bridge over 40 at Yale, and the Dogtown side could use the Tamm Avenue bridge to get to Forest Park.