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Glad to read that Manchester will get sidewalks west of the Metrolink station. Another mind-boggling omission.

StlToday - Maplewood budget approved, but city warned of possible revenue declines

Work will begin next year on redoing Manchester from Bredell to Hanley. The $1.6 million project will add a left-turn signal at Laclede Station Road and new sidewalks where there are none now, Corcoran said.

http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/govt ... 07527.html

^It's taken 9 years, but it's great to see some of these little oversights and omissions from Cross County being addressed. A few small investments around the stations can make a big difference in rider access and experience.

Hopefully pedestrian access to E. Linden Ave to Richmond Heights Station is next.

This will be so much better.

Random thought - Was at the “Roosevelt Collection Shops” in Chicago. Given some momentum to infill large shopping developments, I wonder if Brentwood Pointe and Promenade could be transformed into a similar type space. The Roosevelt Shops in Chicago area is not necessarily the best urban development/design and is a smaller footprint but it is an improvement on the Brentwood developments. Build easily accessible parking garages with plazas and housing. Could add more retail fronts if that is viable. Transforming the parking lots into walkable strips between garages and stores would make the connection to the Metrolink station must improved.

I wouldn’t start with a Roosevelt Shops if I was designing a city but it is something that is an achievable transformation for things like Brentwood, Hampton Plaza, Gravois Plaza, Kingshighway Center, Lindell Marketplace, etc. St. Louis Marketplace’s have proven not to work forever.

wabash wrote: ↑

Jul 25, 2015

(from NextStop STL)

The photo that Wabash shared on original post and the home depot on the other side says it all on why the county and in part the inner burbs have failed to move the needle with a huge investment by its taxpayers.  I assume that this shot redone today would show no changes.   Just imagine if this parking lot, the home depot were redeveloped into mixed use as delmar2 referenced.  

I also believe the only reasonable fixed transit investment that the county should make in forseable future is extending current metrolink up I-170  and go a few more stops south of Shrewsbury in order to give a good chunk of South County direct access to Lambert or at least go west of Lambert a few more stops to give current metrolink access to Earth City job base.    I can comprehend the argument for metrolink in north county.   But can only come to the conclusion in that any other metrolink extension/expansion in the county would probably just result in more station stops with parking lots next door for more decades to come.   North County would probably be better served with new EV buses and better & frequent routes.