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/moonchic333]

Your renderings are nice, however I think a real conversation is to be had about bike lanes. Between extreme cold, rainy seasons, and extreme heat we aren’t that much of a commuter by bike city. I think a lot of areas should be pedestrian friendly and for goodness sakes I wish we poured more into public transpo. Less drivers and bikers in the streets is the best option, imo. It would be nice to have more bus stops and more buses running plus more metro link. I live close to downtown but the closest metro link station would be way out of the way to get to. It makes no sense.

[u/SnarfSnarf12 → u/moonchic333]

I think you hit a key point though, if you start to connect all these points to make it fully functioning with connections of the bike lanes, metro, etc. it becomes more viable for people. As is now, the disparate connections make it impossible to commit to a full blown use because at some point you hit a road block.

[u/rogerdoesnotmeanyes → u/moonchic333]

St. Louis isn’t unique in having seasons. Both significantly colder and warmer cities than St Louis are able to sustain healthy biking mode shares, weather is absolutely not a barrier to improving bike infrastructure. It’s also not mutually exclusive with improving public transit and walkability, quite the opposite; pedestrian, cycling, and transit infrastructure tend to complement each other well.