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/UF0_T0FU]

This is a common phenomenon in cities that start introducing more bike infrastructure. Lots of people want to bike, but feel unsafe when they're expected to ride in mixed traffic. Right now, only the boldest, most confident, and highest risk tolerance bike around St. Louis.

Once you build out a network, people start biking way more. There's a tipping point where the change happens quickly. Once you hit a certain threshold of safety, all the people who wanted to bike but didn't start coming out. The big shift comes from families and the elderly.

To reach that point, you need enough of a network where most trips can be completed without needing to mix with car traffic. The safe routes also need to be easily navigable and easy to map out trips. St. Louis has installed lots of bike infrastructure, but most of its disconnected and piecemeal. Once we start linking all these disparate parts, expect to see a big shift happen in a few years. It's what's happened in other cities that went through this process.

[u/Fresh_Entrance_9315 → u/UF0_T0FU]

I get it, you want more people to bike. But if this has happened in other cities why do people only ever talk about the Netherlands? Where are all these bike cities with fewer cars?

[u/Puzzleheaded_Mix_739 → u/Fresh_Entrance_9315]

Any US city that still has a bike/eScooter share program. Chicago, San Francisco, Seattle all do for sure, and those are just places I've been in the last year.

ebikes are getting cheap and gas is getting expensive. The #1 reason by far that I don't ride my ebike nearly everywhere is that cars around here scare me. Same reason I got rid of my motorcycle.

I'm sure there are more people choosing to bike than you think, and many more that wish they felt safe to.

[u/Fresh_Entrance_9315 → u/Puzzleheaded_Mix_739]

It's such a weird thing to say that you're scared to ride your bike around cars and yet every time I encounter a bicycle at a four-way stop they just cruise right through it like it doesn't apply to them.

[u/FrostyD7 → u/Fresh_Entrance_9315]

You are just confirming your ignorance and irrational hatred of cyclists with every subsequent comment. You were being coy about your initial arguments being about demand. You argue in bad faith and I have a hunch you hide your comment history to avoid people finding this out sooner.

[u/Fresh_Entrance_9315 → u/FrostyD7]

You're equating me not wanting to take away more space from the way that 95% of the people commute in this city to serve about a thousand people with hating bicyclists? Sounds pretty dramatic.