Tied up in traffic? Curious about construction? Ask the Road Crew
Ask the experts from the Missouri Department of Transportation, St. Louis and St. Charles counties and St. Louis City your questions about highways and roads. The live chat starts at 1 p.m. on Wednesday.
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MODOT: The signal for northbound Sublette at Manchester is still not acting right. At about 6:15 Monday morning, I witnessed three cars go around the first in line as the signal was not cycling for Sublette traffic. There are no sight lines which is why the signs state to stop here on red before crossing the Union Pacific tracks. Again, this is a recipe for a head-on vehicular accident or someone getting t-boned by a train. The last time I complained about this, I read your response as, “lol, we are looking at it in the fall!” You need to be more proactive before something bad happens. You don’t need a consultant for this and I’m perplexed as to why your agency needs to hire consultants to examine signal timing in the first place—that’s the exact business that you’re in, why can’t you save funds and do that work in house? Please look at Sublette and Manchester, it has been periodically malfunctioning for years and nobody seems to care. Thanks. -
Thanks for sharing your continued observations -- I have passed them along to the traffic engineer for the area to take a further look at before the corridor optimization planned for later this year. Optimization looks at a corridor and tries to reduce the amount of time traffic on the major route stops during different levels of traffic (usually morning rush, evening rush and other times). As you can imagine, it is a fairly exacting task, requiring a lot of traffic counts and analysis of the various traffic movements, speeds through the corridors, traffic levels on cross streets and a lot of calculations. Although our traffic engineers certainly could do it, it is a lot more cost-efficient to outsource that and save our traffic experts for the multitude of other tasks that require their attention. As a note, we did check the detection the last times that you shared this, and didn't see any issues with it. It is possible that people are not pulling up to the stop bar completely and therefore aren't triggering the detection on the signal. Andrew Gates, MoDOT Communications -
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I've reached out to the team overseeing the projects, and they tell me that there are some repairs that need to be made to the overlays. When the contractor has finished making those repairs, they will get the bridges restriped. Andrew Gates, MoDOT Communications
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Who controls the signal lights at Mackenzie Road and Rogers Middle School in Affton? The reason why i ask is when you are leaving Rogers to turn on to Mackenzie there is a signal pole to the left and that signal is always red no matter what the other signals show (this is during school hours). On top of that i'm not sure it's even facing the right direction.
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Since that portion of Mackenzie is Missouri Route P, we should control it. I have asked our team to check it out and see if there is an issue. If it is the signal that is facing the cemetery, it should be red much of the time. Is it facing toward the school? Andrew Gates, MoDOT Communications
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Last week, a Road Crew chat participant asked if we have any plans to improve McKelvey Road, and, if so, will the work include new sidewalk construction. We do indeed have improvements planned for this Maryland Heights road. We expect work to begin next year on two different McKelvey projects. The first project will resurface the road from Ameling to Glenpark, and will include new sidewalk construction to fill a gap on the west side from Charlemagne, south to the sidewalk stub opposite the north end of the Community Center. In the second project, McKelvey will be resurfaced from Glenpark to Creve Coeur Mill Road. New sidewalks will be built on the east side of the road from Smoke Rise Court, north to Creve Coeur Mill Road. David Wrone, St. Louis County’s Department of Transportation -
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Unfortunately, this bridge could very well remain closed until the summer of 2022. We're obligated to abide by all permitting regulations that pertain to construction projects located in flood plains. Many of these regulations are required/issued by agencies outside our jurisdiction. This process could delay completion of the replacement project until next summer. David Wrone, St. Louis County's Department of Transportation
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Rob asked about potholes on Biddle Street under the interstate downtown. We do have a project where that area will be resurfaced, starting later this year. Until then, our maintenance team will continue to monitor the area and patch the worst spots until the resurfacing starts. Andrew Gates, MoDOT Communications
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I have an issue that I hope the City can solve. At the corner of Macklind (southbound) and Nesho (east bound) there are two issues that need attention. First, there was a plumbing repair that was done here a few months ago, but the pavement has dipped pretty significantly there, so this needs to be fixed. Second, this is supposed to be a no parking zone, but the bar customers continue to park there. There used to be bollards in the no parking zone, but the bar customers ran them over. These scofflaws have nearly caused accidents for myself and others. I have reported the issues to both the Citizen's Service Bureau (months ago) and the Police Department, but nothing has been done. Can you help with this?
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