Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about St. Louis

Three Reasons So Many Drivers Leave Pedestrians and Bicyclists to Die

By Kea Wilson | Sep 9, 2022 | No Comments

A spate of pedestrian and cyclists deaths at the hands of hit-and-run drivers in St. Louis is sparking a national conversation about the unique reasons why so many drivers leave their victims to die — and what it will take to stop them.

St. Louis Calms Traffic With Heavy Concrete Globes

By Angie Schmitt | Jan 4, 2018 | No Comments

They're cheap. They get the job done. And residents wanted them.

Historical Photos of St. Louis Capture the Great Violence of “Urban Renewal”

By Angie Schmitt | May 6, 2016 | No Comments

Some of these images, dug up by Alex Ihnen at NextSTL, almost look like a war zone. Buildings exploding. Entire city blocks reduced to ghost towns. Families out on curbs, carrying all their belongings in suitcases. It wasn’t a war, though — it was mid-century St. Louis. Perhaps no other American city more enthusiastically embraced the development strategy known as “urban renewal,” a euphemism […]

Highway Revolts Break Out Across the Midwest

By Angie Schmitt | Jun 28, 2013 | No Comments

The evolution of state and regional transportation agencies is painfully slow in places like Missouri and Ohio, where officials are plowing ahead with pricey highway projects conceived of decades ago. But plenty of Midwesterners have different ideas for the future of their communities, and they aren’t shy about speaking up. One after another, residents of […]

St. Louis Punts on Highway Teardown, for Now

By Angie Schmitt | Jun 27, 2013 | No Comments

For three years, grassroots advocates in St. Louis have been pressing for the removal of elevated portions of I-70 through downtown. This group of urbanists and architects, with little to no financial support, came together to make the case for highway removal. Calling themselves City to River, the group built a website and a nonprofit […]

St. Louis Mayoral Contender Lewis Reed Hopes to Bike to City Hall

By Ben Fried | Feb 20, 2013 | 7 Comments

Via the Kansas Cyclist, here’s a campaign ad from St. Louis mayoral hopeful Lewis Reed that would seem strangely inconceivable in NYC’s current political climate. Reed, currently president of the St. Louis Board of Aldermen (the equivalent of being City Council speaker in NYC), is challenging three-term incumbent Francis Slay in a primary election coming […]

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