Tower Grove Avenue next to the Botanical Gardens is a jewel of a road, with wide right lanes and no intersections. Cars usually drive in the left lane and cyclists on the right, with plenty of clearance from parked cars.…
Tower Grove Avenue next to the Botanical Gardens is a jewel of a road, with wide right lanes and no intersections. Cars usually drive in the left lane and cyclists on the right, with plenty of clearance from parked cars.…
See update here. Straying a bit beyond Tower Grove Avenue which is the main focus of SafeTGA.org, I investigated the new bike infrastructure being laid out on newly resurfaced Arsenal Street. The section of Arsenal from Roger to Grand (0.6…
The concrete construction barriers on Tower Grove Avenue which sparked the SafeTGA project are gone. Yet real hazards for cyclists remain, and upcoming streets projects threaten the very character of this route. Here are some thoughts about current problems and future…
Our most recent tour of St. Louis bicycle infrastructure, following bike maps and signage, took us to western and southern St. Louis. Starting in The Grove, we rode west on Manchester road. This road is currently being repaved and will…
Last weekend, visiting family in Atlanta, I had the opportunity to ride some of the new bicycle facilities which recently sprang up in the city. Atlanta’s BeltLine is a 22-mile path being built on old railroad rights-of-way which connects the city’s…
We’re happy to observe that sections of Tower Grove Avenue got bike lanes repainted this week. There are also bright shiny new sharrows from Vandeventer north to Clayton. Best of all, a short stretch of bike lane was painted on…
Venturing beyond Tower Grove Avenue, we are exploring the state of St. Louis bicycle infrastructure. Using only the Bike St. Louis map and on-road signage as a guide, we’re seeing what its like to elsewhere ride in St. Louis and…
Introduction To facilitate the discussion about bicycle safety along Tower Grove Avenue, we’ve put together some facts and figures about the road as it currently exists. Tower Grove Avenue begins at Tower Grove Park and runs north for 1.7 miles…
Shortly after I wrote about my experience in the Cycling Savvy class, the instructor (and cycling advocate) Karen Karabell contacted me with her own thoughts. She thought I did not make my participation clear enough — I did attend two…
Last week I attended a Cycling Savvy course taught by Karen Karabell and Gerry Noll (photos 1, 2). While I am an experienced cyclist — I raced in college and have been commuting regularly for over a decade — revisiting the…
