Intersection at Clayton Road and McCausland Avenue to be improved, starting Summer 2015

According to the West End Word newspaper, January 16-29 issue, on page 4:  "$2 Million Project To Improve Forest Park Access", there will be construction starting this year on the McCausland Avenue./Skinker Blvd. side of Forest Park.  This will include bike lanes, sidewalks, traffic signals, curb ramps and crosswalks, and a dual lane trail.  The construction will go east, to Hampton Avenue, where the new St. Louis Zoo expansion construction is underway.  Louisville Avenue and Tamm Avenue, on the south side of Forest Park, between Hampton Avenue and McCausland Avenue/Skinker Blvd., will have improved access to the Park.  The improvements are scheduled to be done by early 2016.

I drew up plans for the Skinker Blvd./McCausland Avenue intersection in 2001, when working with the Missouri Dept. of Transportation and the three committees who were working as advisors to state highway officials on rebuilding Highway 40 - a project called "The New I-64".  These three committees omitted the area between McCausland Avenue and Bellevue Avenue, which is where I live, and where the city of St. Louis/Richmond Heights line exists, just south of the city of Clayton line, at Clayton Road.  Their three committees included the areas of:  segment from Tower Grove to McCausland Avenue;  segment from Bellevue Avenue to Brentwood Blvd;  segment from McKnight Road to Spoede Road.  Not incidentally, I lived in the area omitted between Brentwood Blvd. and McKnight Road, also, between 1985-1988, in Richmond Heights and Brentwood.  Both of those addresses have been torn down.  I documented this in a project around 2003, 2004, 2005, and into 2012, when a business at the intersection of Brentwood Blvd. and Eager Road (east side of Brentwood Blvd.) was torn down, to make way for the new Drury Inn.  The new Brentwood Square expansion occurred around 2004-2005, and the highway expansion, before 2009, brought the razing of the apartment buildings located north of Brentwood Forest Condominiums, along the highway.