You won't believe what Crestwood is doing with your roads
Look— I’m gonna be real with you, when I saw this headline about "mini-roundabouts" in Crestwood, I had to do a double-take. Mini-rounds? On Liggett Avenue? After a year of talk, the Crestwood Board of Aldermen actually decided to move forward with these things. I mean, we're talking about a stretch of road in South County, not some European village. For those of you who don’t know Liggett, it's a pretty typical residential street, you know, the kind with kids playing and folks just trying to get home. Now they’re gonna have these little traffic circles popping up.
### What This Means for Crestwood
Now, the idea behind these, they say, is "traffic calming." To slow folks down. And yeah, some of these residential streets can get a little wild sometimes. But for a city that, bless its heart, still uses "Highway 40" even after they changed it to I-64 back when I was a kid, these mini-roundabouts feel… well, they feel like something from somewhere else.
* **Slower Traffic:** The goal is to make drivers slow down. Which, okay, I get that. Nobody wants someone flying down their street. * **New Driving Habits:** Folks are gonna have to learn how to navigate these things. And let's just say, St. Louis drivers aren't exactly known for their adaptability to *new* traffic patterns. It's gonna be interesting, to say the least, seeing how this plays out near places like Grant's Farm or over by the mall. * **Neighborhood Feel:** Will it actually make Liggett Avenue feel safer, or just more confusing? That's the real question.
I’m picturing someone from North County, maybe coming down to visit friends in Crestwood, hitting one of these and thinking, "What in the hoosier is this?" (And for those not from the Lou, a "hoosier" around here ain't someone from Indiana; it’s our word for a certain kind of… well, you know, a bit of a backwoods character.) It's a small thing, sure, but it speaks to how even our little towns in St. Louis County are trying to figure out how to manage growth and traffic without losing that neighborhood feel.
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