SchwaSTL: Do you have a date set to hang the soundwalls along South 40 Drive between Clayton and McKnight?

Dan Galvin and Linda Wilson: The wall in front of the Ladue Racquet Club is scheduled for sometime in mid to late May. There is another wall still in design that will go in to the west of that one and should be installed later this summer.

Dan

Jim S: Sorry I didn't have a chance to respond last week, but thanks for having your engineers look at the timing of the lights at Lindbergh and 40/64. It is obvious that they made changes, and the improvements are appreciated by myself and many others, I'm sure. Instead of waiting to turn at a deserted signal for two full minutes, the light is turning in about 15-30 seconds, depending on when the sensor it tripped. Thanks for following up, great job MoDOT!

Dan Galvin and Linda Wilson: You are welcome. I'm glad it is working better and I will let the traffic engineers know. Please let me know if anything changes or if you have other concerns.

Linda Wilson

DividebyZero: In a separate but continuing issue, the timing on Eager is still awful. This morning, at about 11:45, I sat for a few minutes at the Eager/170 ramp intersection going east. Then I had to sit at another red at the very next intersection for another minute or so. And this week in the evening, going west at say 5:30 or so, one still sits at the Eager/170 intersection for a couple minutes and then again for a couple minutes at Eager and Brentwood. I know these are big intersections and timing is probably hard namely at rush hours, but I thought I'd ask anyway.

Dan Galvin and Linda Wilson: I will talk to the MoDOT and County traffic engineers who work together on the signal timing on Eager and see what they can do. Typically when you make a left or right turn onto a street, the signals are timed for that street to flow. Meaning, once you are on Eager, the signals will eventually flow for you. For example, let's take a longer street. If you turned onto Olive from a side street, you will probably stop at the next light. Once you get your first light on Olive, the signals are designed that you should be able to flow through several more green lights on Olive. The signals are timed for Olive straight through traffic. I will see what they can do about Eager, but this is not uncommon to turn onto a street and then stop at the next light. Hopefully once you get through that light at the Promenade you don't get a red at the next light too.

Linda Wilson

DividebyZero: I'm sure the issue at Wells and Skinker is still going on. Why not put pylons out there and prevent left turns. It wouldn't impede traffic in any way, other than preventing that left turn. Related to that, my drive nearly every day on Eager is often complete with people making u-turns going east on Eager to get onto I-170. That, in addition to people going west in the evening that end up blocking a 170 lane because they didn't realize they wanted to go straight to Brentwood, would also lend itself to pylons preventing those illegal, dangerous, and/or downright obstructive traffic movements. Whaddya say?

Dan Galvin and Linda Wilson: We know the issue at Wells and Skinker is still happening. We are not able to block off the ability to make a left turn because left turns are allowed from Skinker into Wells. There are pylons in the street blocking it just to the south of the intersection, but people just drive around them. We are hopeful that once Hampton opens May 22 and the Oakland bridge opens sometime this summer the traffic will be reduced at Wells and Skinker. I don't know what to say about Eager. The road has been stripped this way for five months now. You would think drivers would remember which lane to be in.

Linda Wilson

RNC: I know you all have discussed 64 and McKnight quite a bit on here, and for the first time since 64 has been open, I drove through there over the weekend. Even though I knew how it works, it is pretty confusing (and I did see someone go straight from the left turn lane).

Besides striping/signs, one other thing I think you all might consider if it continues to be a problem is replacing the light over the southbound left turn lane. Right now, it's a left turn arrow next to a solid green light. I know that this is generally what you all do at an intersection where a left turn on solid green is legal, but having a solid green light hanging directly over the left turn only lane might be confusing some motorists. I'm not sure there's a good solution, but if that intersection continues to be a problem, that might be something to look at.

Dan Galvin and Linda Wilson: Thanks for the idea. We are also looking at adding more left turn arrows to the pavement and we will look at the signal heads. We haven't given up on this one and our engineers continue to look at it. We appreciate your suggestion.
Linda Wilson