Trailnet, City of St Louis experimenting with pop-up traffic calming to make streets safer for walking, bicycling | St. Louis Public Radio

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"[W]e did a lot of surveying with residents (in the HEAL partnership) and asked them why don’t you walk? Why don’t you bike? Why don’t you go to the parks to play?” said Filler. “Their big concern was traffic safety. I mean if you live in St. Louis you know a lot of people blow through stop signs.” . . .

“St. Louis is known for having incredibly wide roads, especially in residential areas,” explained Trailnet’s Grace Kyung, “No cars are going to respect the stop signs (if the lanes are wider than a typical highway lane).”

The demonstration on Gasconade was the first of four “traffic calming” events Trailnet plans to set up this fall in St. Louis. The other three will be in the Ville, Carondelet and JeffVanderLou.

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MoBikeFed comment: The City and Trailnet should be commended for taking on this innovative program. This is the type of thing that is now being done routinely in major cities across the nation and the world; it's great to see it happening in Missouri, too.