Safer for non-drivers

@Christopher Lehmuth it's already sitting in a high yield account making money. In the meantime people, are getting injured and killed as they try to navigate the city not in a car. We need action now, not some undetermined time in the future when there is supposedly enough money in the fund.

And what happens when the protected bike lanes are destroyed by cars and need to be repaired? Or when the paths need to be re-paved? The money will be gone. I want riders to be safe too, but there is a measured approach here that allows all citizens of Saint Louis benefit, forever. And those benefits would include this idea (which is great) and all of the other great ideas submitted here.

@Paula Kyla Oudshoorn Personally I would love to bike to work if it were safer. It seems as if there were better infrastructure for it then it is something that more would participate in. That said I'm all in on mass transit as well and would love more trains throughout the city

@Paula Kyla Oudshoorn That's because it's currently not safe. I realize a belief doesn't constitute a statistic, yet I believe A LOT more people would bike to work, etc. if safe bike infrastructure was in place, especially when they found out how inexpensive it is compared to owning an automobile. America is about freedom of choice. I say, give people that freedom of choice to choose something other than an automobile and you would see dramatic (in a positive sense) change in your cited statistic. Don't allow yourselves to be confused by the Automobile Companies pushing fantasies over the reality of automobile ownership.

@Ronald Wagoner st.louis is the perfect city to try to convert people into using other modes of transportation.

@Ronald Wagoner I'm going to disagree. If the 0.6% is nationwide and nationwide we have spent billions on bike safety and accessibility@Ronald Wagoner I'm going to disagree. If the 0.6% is nationwide and nationwide we have spent billions on bike safety and accessabitly it may be time to look at the studies done of the number of bikers in STL. It is very, very low on the one or two-day@Ronald Wagoner I'm going to disagree. If the 0.6% is nationwide and nationwide we have spent billions on bike safety and accessibility@Ronald Wagoner I'm going to disagree. If the 0.6% is nationwide and nationwide we have spent billions on bike safety and accessabitly it may be time to look at the studies done of the number of bikers in STLand evaluate the financial feasiblity overall for the city $$. It is very, very low on the one or two day counts they do around the city. The truth is Americans are very attached to their cars, add to that our hot summers and cold wet winters and it makes it difficult to be a commuting biker year round. The counts they do are in Sept, best month, and the numbers are mostly still in the teens or less on most of the routes the track per day.

@Patrick Cuba 100% agree that there needs to be shortcuts for bikes/peds across major highways and railyards. It can be hard to get from one neighborhood nextdoor to another due to the need of crossing 44/64/55/i70/rail yards. Often the few overpasses/underpasses present have heavy car traffic making it incredibly unsafe for non-drivers

@Patrick Cuba Yes! We need low-cost pedestrian upgrades and bike lanes down major roadways done quickly. The Brickline Greenway and the Tower Grove Connector are lovely, but over engineered: we need safe options today, not a decade from now. Painting bike lanes and using parking to protect cyclists and pedestrians will quickly improve safety a does not need years of engineering and environmental review. We should experiment with temporary options to see what works. For example, the barriers currently on the center lane of Grand in Dutchtown could be protecting a center bike lane instead of just eating a lane of traffic. As the city does pedestrian improvements, it should make sure that they are not hostile to cyclists. For example, the rain gardens on south grand are lovely, but they push cyclists into traffic and block the future development of protected cycling infrastructure on Grand.