Kudos to city for lowering speed limits on Magnolia & Arsenal
Thanks to Aldermen Steve Conway and Jennifer Florida and the City of St. Louis for getting the speed limit lowered on Magnolia and Arsenal avenues to 25 mph. This follows in the wake of a horrific accident that took the life of a pedestrian and her dog last month. While no speed limit sign may have deterred that driver from his deadly course, this is a positive response. Now, how about installing some speed tables?
Speed limit lowered to 25 mph on Magnolia and Arsenal between Grand and Kingshighway
Hi Karen,
It’s Ben Zalasky from the CAC. Awesome site! I’m totally behind any and all cycling related websites in the St. Louis area. If you ever have any questions about WordPress, feel free to fire away. I’ve encountered just about every issue that can arise with a WordPress powered site.
I’ll blast your posts out on Twitter @bzalasky. Do you have an account yet? I’ll make sure to add a link to your site on the Link Love page at RandysRecycledCycles.com.
Also, I meant to send this as a message via your contact form, but it redirected to CommuteOrlando.com, which while totally cool, threw me for a loop.
Best Regards,
Ben
Hi Ben,
I asked Keri Caffrey, who created the “Commute Orlando” site, if we could use her template for St. Louis (I, too, obviously love this format and no need to reinvent the wheel). Thank you for finding another glitch to fix.
Of course the key to building “Commute St. Louis” will be rich local content–of which we have no shortage! Thanks for your offer of technical assistance, which I intend to take you up on…and maybe you’ll consider becoming an author on the site?
Note to self: Start Twitter account.
Thanks again!
Twitter account for commutestlouis started. Now just need to learn how to use it
As a owner of a business on Morganford, our business has been way down since the new lower speed limits went into effect last year, with numerous former customers lettting us know that they now avoid Arsenal and patronize establishments elsewhere in the city. We have now started a petition drive to get the speed limits returned to a reasonable driving speed. This horrific accident was caused less by the driver’s speeding and more by the driver running a stop sign (as well as drinking while driving), so punishing the whole neighborhood was a short-sighted approach that will soon be rectified. And as a cyclist, I accept the reality that you could lower the speed limits to 5 mph and there would still be crazy drivers out there.
I’m a fan of the 25 mph speed limit on the sections of Arsenal and Magnolia between Kingshighway and Grand because even though Magnolia and Arsenal are arterial roads, they are almost completely and heavily residential between Grand and Kingshighway.
I didn’t realize that the speed limit was lowered on Morganford–though could understand if this has been the case on the section between Arsenal and Chippewa. I’m sorry to hear that the lower speed limits have hurt your business. This seems ironic for two reasons: One would think that new customers in particular would be able to find a business more easily when they’re *not* zooming by at high speeds. Also, as I recall, the speed was lowered by 5 mph (from 30 mph to 25 mph). Does this really make that much of a difference?
Finally, I agree with you: Crazy (or drunk or otherwise irresponsible) drivers should have their licenses revoked, and be encouraged to use bicycles for transportation instead…