wait - do you mean that they're putting a parkign lot IN FRONT of the Gaust Haus? Where the horribly overgrown "neighborhood garden" used to be? That would be a catastrophe ... talk about ruining the area's ambience. .... please tell me I'm wrong.
unless they're putting down 6 inches of concrete as a weedblock, but that's never 100% effective either...
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A parking lot? So much for the Lafayette Square Strategic Plan, I guess:
http://www.lafayettesquare.org/urbanpla ... al-ch6.pdf
http://www.lafayettesquare.org/urbanpla ... al-ch6.pdf
The only good news is option 2 had the Gasthaus building levelled. At least it's still standing.
I drive TP at least once a week on my way to work and noticed that the medians are just grass. No trees, no landscaping. Does the city do that? Neighborhood groups? It's crying out for greenery.
Also, they were striping the new pavement today.
I drive TP at least once a week on my way to work and noticed that the medians are just grass. No trees, no landscaping. Does the city do that? Neighborhood groups? It's crying out for greenery.
Also, they were striping the new pavement today.
Boy, the new Gast Haus parking lot is really big and ugly.
On a brighter note, there's a nice new pair of entrance gates on Mississippi at Chouteau. Very well done.
On a brighter note, there's a nice new pair of entrance gates on Mississippi at Chouteau. Very well done.
The extension is now open. A lot of clean up needs to be done but cars are driving it.
It's kinda nice, actually, if you're driving I-44 East and exit off Lafayette Ave. to get to downtown west. Lafayette to Truman -- it was a fairly smooth drive. 
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Now if only there were a connection to/from WB 40/I-64. Then, current traffic would decrease on Hampton, Kingshighway, Vandeventer, Grand, Jefferson, 14th and Tucker, as commuters continue to find ways between 40 and 44/55. Likewise, a new 18th/Truman interchange could maybe replace both the ramps at 22nd/Market and 14th/Clark, freeing up land to the west of Union Station and southeast of Kiel for infill development. Maybe someday.
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southslider wrote:Likewise, a new 18th/Truman interchange could maybe replace both the ramps at 22nd/Market and 14th/Clark, freeing up land to the west of Union Station and southeast of Kiel for infill development. Maybe someday.
That would be ideal - I can't believe it hasn't happened already.
Chris_on_Kingsbury wrote:Another map of the cancelled I-755, from "East-West Gateway's 1972-1973 study entitled 'Missouri 755: Subregional Transportation Planning Program' ".
http://www.engineering.uiowa.edu/~dgherman/MO755.html
And the Truman Parkway,
http://www.engineering.uiowa.edu/~dgher ... nPkwy.html
(Site called 'Revive 755')
It appears that the I-70 interchange never was built, but it looks like it would have been near where Mallinckrodt crosses the interstate. 755 would have demolished most of the Old North Saint Louis neighborhood. Furthermore, I wonder if the extra traffic funneling north onto I-70 would have eventually led to a wider expansion of that road when it was reconstructed a few years ago, causing more of that neighborhood to be destroyed.
The parking lot next to Gast House is paved now. It's HUGE! And it's also UGLY! 
Not sure what you were expecting from a parking lot...
(eye roll is meant for the lot, not for framer)
(eye roll is meant for the lot, not for framer)
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is anyone else aghast at the fact that they plowed under the "corner island" median acroos from the Gaust Haus and truned it into - what else - a parking lot. That space could have been really attractive if anyone had bothered to fix it up ....
^Yeah, the parking lot sucks.
On a brighter note, the new entry gates at Mississippi and Chouteau look great. They look like they've always been there.
On a brighter note, the new entry gates at Mississippi and Chouteau look great. They look like they've always been there.
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Now that the Truman Parkway is successful . . .
For a second project, to use the old "ghost ramps" that run north from Hwy 40 and currently expire on the first streets that they tie into . . .
22nd street has several blocks of cleared lots along it running north to MLK. Could St. Louis, at low cost, get rid of the USPS truck parking lot on the south side of Lindel, and then run another "Truman Parkway" northward, from the Hwy 40 ghost ramps, through the present parking lot, and along 22nd street? Or at least just tie the ghost ramps into a re-vitalized 22nd street.
MLK is almost to the Pruit-Igoe site.
Click for map: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q ... iwloc=addr
For a second project, to use the old "ghost ramps" that run north from Hwy 40 and currently expire on the first streets that they tie into . . .
22nd street has several blocks of cleared lots along it running north to MLK. Could St. Louis, at low cost, get rid of the USPS truck parking lot on the south side of Lindel, and then run another "Truman Parkway" northward, from the Hwy 40 ghost ramps, through the present parking lot, and along 22nd street? Or at least just tie the ghost ramps into a re-vitalized 22nd street.MLK is almost to the Pruit-Igoe site.
Click for map: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q ... iwloc=addr
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To the contrary, these ghost ramps will hopefully someday be removed to introduce new infill sites next to Downtown's emerging West Loft District. MODOT previously studied ramp removal, but the City dropped the ball.
I wish there was an easy and fluid way to connect 40/64 to I-55. Truman Pkwy helps but it's not as fast as a proper interchange.
I just wish I wouldn't hit EVERY FREAKING RED LIGHT going South on 18th from Washington to Truman. It's after midnight, nobody's in sight, and there I am waiting for the light. Go one block, wait for the light. Go another block, wait for the light. Repeat. 
^Isn't that the truth!! The light at LaFayette is insufferable!
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no different anywhere else DT. They're working on it right? On teh other hand, maybe it allows you to take in the neighborhood. Though I guess that works better in the afternoon rather than at midnight.
I take Truman to get to Simply Fondue, and it's okay. The real problem is that the lights are so inconsistent. Can we put some triggers on the lights around Ameren, instead of having them on a cycle? I hate driving in on a weekend and sitting at a light at Ameren as NOBODY is in the parking lot there.
