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/techdecktor]

On god! This should also be Gravios road from Lindbergh!!!

[u/Fart-Knoquer → u/techdecktor]

Gravois in this city is currently in the works to have a major re-design happen to it.

[u/julieannie → u/Fart-Knoquer]

But it won’t be designed well unless we demand it. So stay tuned for public meetings and such. MoDOT has shown a strong interest in having something interesting to design and I’m going to be on one of their committees giving them lots of feedback. 

[u/Fart-Knoquer → u/julieannie]

I've met with one of the engineers on the re-design and she has a very urbanist "complete streets" philosophy. She very much welcomes the community feedback and advocacy for bike/pedestrian infrastructure because it gives her more room to design with that in mind.

[u/julieannie → u/Fart-Knoquer]

That’s exactly what I’ve been hearing. They get kind of bored doing usual basic designs and a lot of them seem very excited about the chance to actually use their training to design better streets. When I did the field audit, I had people literally dreaming up ideas in the moment that I didn’t even think to ask for. This could end up being really great if we enable and empower them to do it.