River Des Peres Boulevard

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Originally Posted by SouthCitySam

Let me make my own clarifications:
The road in its entirety does not need to be widened. Many sections are perfectly acceptable. But there are sections that are clearly too narrow for 4 lanes. Reducing the speed from 40 to 35 on the entire road would be unjustified and wouldn't alleviate the safety concerns on the narrow sections anyway. The only way to fix it is to widen the lanes at these sections of the road. But at these narrow sections, the trail is too close to make the necessary modifications while not impacting or even tearing up the trail and setting it back further from the road.

The right turn lanes would be beneficial for traffic flow in all directions and no retiming would be necessary. Cars can turn when it’s clear for them to do so. But with the construction of the stone entrances to the trail, the right turn lanes are not even possible anymore. Unless you remove the stone entrances, which of course is unlikely.

I get what you're saying. It's just that if the streets department even thought those lanes might be warranted at present or some future date, the trail never would have been approved to go there. GRG needs to get local/state approval when building that close to roads from the relevant street/highway dept. I can definitely see how this might be inconvenient to you, but the streets dept does not think it poses a safety issue, nor do they think it is necessary....otherwise, they would have told GRG "no".