People love streets. If a candidate could somehow ensure that they'd fix all the streets in Kirkwood, they could run on any platform they desired, build a fourteen story tall McDonalds on every corner say, and win the election going away. I, however, do not very much care about streets at all. At least with… Continue reading Bike Lanes & Street Re-Paves
Last Thursday I published a story highlighting some of the items on that night's City Council agenda. One of the items I left out of that story is likely to be the most exciting. It wasn't an oversight, I just hadn't gathered all the info yet. But now I have so let's dig in to… Continue reading West Essex.
Please Note: I should have linked to this Webster Kirkwood Times article on the rail spur that much of this proposal is based off of. It is interesting and informative, and great local journalism. But I did not because, like an idiot, I did not read it until after I finished writing this post. It… Continue reading Grant’s Trail Extension: A Silver Bullet
The title of this article could've been, maybe should have been, "If young Metro don't trust you...[something about bus service in Kirkwood]," but my grandparents (my only loyal readers) wouldn't have gotten the reference and if somehow any young person came across it, they'd probably just assume I'm a huge dork and stopped reading. So… Continue reading Metro Bus in Kirkwood: Change is Coming.
St. Louis is the largest city/metropolitan area without a bike share program. But if the city as a whole can't figure its shit out, maybe a few of its suburbs can. If you scoffed at that last sentence, I understand. Bike-share programs are expensive and to think Kirkwood and Webster could afford to fully fund… Continue reading KirkWeb Bike Share
Meramec Community College's large campus and voluminous student traffic makes for a challenging environment to craft a more walkable neighborhood. With that being said, however, there are steps that can be taken in both the short-term an the long-term to ensure that this stretch of Geyer is not only walkable for the residences that sit… Continue reading College Town
Kirkwood has struggled with parking for as long as it has excelled at attracting people. The mindset amongst Kirkwood's recent political leadership seems to be that if you tear enough buildings down and reserve enough surface area for parking, parking will no longer be an issue. This is true. It true, not because the supply… Continue reading Paid Parking: A Case to be Made
According to Walkable City (p.155), transit works when you get four factors right regardless of scale: urbanity, clarity, frequency and pleasure. Urbanity essentially meaning that the route has walkable, significant, urban attractions at both ends; Clarity refers to the idea that routes should be easy to comprehend and visualize. Frequency is pretty self explanatory but… Continue reading Kirkwood-Webster Shuttle
