ST. LOUIS — The city of St. Louis is working to change dangerous intersections with traffic safety upgrades through a new project called the 'Principal Arterial Traffic Safety Enhancement Project'.
The project will include improvements like pavement resurfacing, lane reconfigurations/reductions, restriping, various ADA improvements, traffic signal retimings and additional shared/protected bicycle facilities. The city says the improvements will integrate field investigations of existing conditions as well as recommendations from previous traffic studies.
This week and next week, the city says they'll host public meetings where people can learn about the projects, ask questions, see the anticipated effectiveness of the proposed safety countermeasures and comment on the proposed designs.
The city says they're pursuing more than $46 million to address the issues throughout 30 miles of corridors and select intersections. The Transportation Alternatives Program (TAP) grant will fund the project.
Here are the corridor traffic safety enhancement locations:
- Union Blvd. (Enright Ave. to Florissant Ave.)
- Goodfellow Blvd. (Delmar Blvd. to Halls Ferry Circle)
- Grand Blvd. (Holly Hills Ave. to Hall St.)
- Jefferson Ave. (Chippewa St. to Chouteau Ave.)
- Kingshighway Blvd. (Gravois Ave. to Florissant Ave.)
- 4th St. (Chouteau Ave. to Convention Plaza)
- Convention Plaza (4th St. to Broadway)
- Washington Ave. (3rd St. to 14th St.)
- Broadway (Cole St. to Chouteau Ave.)
Places of the intersections being investigated as the top 10 crash locations:
- Broadway and Washington Ave.
- Broadway and Walnut St.
- Grand Blvd. and Forest Park Parkway
- North Grand Blvd./Dr. Martin Luther King Blvd./Evans Ave.
- Grand Blvd. and Gravois Ave.
- Kingshighway Blvd. and Lindell Blvd.
- Kingshighway Blvd. and Delmar Blvd.
- Gravois Ave./Russell Ave./Tucker Blvd.
- Florissant Ave. and Palm Ave.
- Lindell Blvd./Whittier St.
This week and next week, there will be meetings for the Kingshighway Principal Arterial Safety Improvements. Session 1 will happen Wednesday, May 15 from 4-7 p.m. at the Piper Palm House inside of Tower Grove Park. Session 2 will happen Thursday, May 23 from 4-7 p.m. at the Wohl Recreation Center. Last month there was a downtown multimodal street improvement public open house.
Currently, the project is in the design and engineering period which started in the summer of 2023 and will last until July 2024. After that, the project team will gather public engagement this spring until the summer of 2024. With construction starting at the end of 2024. The construction for 4th Street & Washington Avenue will begin in the first few months of 2026.