Here are some questions to get you thinking:
- What are some of the elements of the environment around/on the streets that make you feel safe or unsafe? (Example: lighting, traffic calming infrastructure, sidewalk condition, etc.)
- What are some behaviors that drivers or non-drivers display that make you feel safe or unsafe?
- Can you describe a specific place where you feel the most or least safe walking, biking, using public transit, or driving a car on St. Louis streets?
- How have high driving speeds or reckless driving impacted you?
All responses submitted to this survey are considered public and are subject to be included in future Trailnet advocacy pieces and Trailnet social media posts. However, you can elect to remain anonymous below.
Recent Stories
Southwest Garden
“I stopped bike commuting for six months after two high profile cyclist deaths on Grand Ave. I was truly afraid. I had to sacrifice my ideals (sustainability, healthy lifestyle) because the risk of injury or death frightened me. That is unfair. Thank goodness I actually have the privilege and means to switch back to car commuting.”
– James
Velda City
“The speeding, running stop signs and total disregard for driving conditions is terrible. Too many lives have been lost in North County and highway 70 lately.”
– Jackie
Olive
“I live just off Olive and am legally blind. Crossing Olive is no longer safe, too many people run the light and as much as we have complained and even had the police watch the intersection we are always told there is not a problem. Olive is a racetrack. Sometimes it is actually safer to walk in the road than risk falling, especially since I have had two knee replacements and a shoulder replacement.”
– Anonymous Resident
St. Louis City
“Can someone please explain why virtually not a single sidewalk is illuminated by street lights, but virtually everything for cars is illuminated?.. I do not feel comfortable walking at night simply because there is frequently no light unless I walk in the middle of the street with car traffic. I see all the light poles that do a really good job giving the cars light and I sometimes think (maybe naively) that if the lights were just turned 90 degrees then perhaps the sidewalks would be little less dark at night.”
– Scott
Benton Park West
“Huge, overbuilt roads like Gravois make drivers feel entitled to drive dangerously. The burden should be on traffic engineers to justify why an intersection doesn’t need improved safety, and not for safety advocates to prove safe routes are needed by showing how much blood has been shed at a particular site. For every crash, there are dozens of close calls and hundreds of area residents who have almost unanimously judge the existing infrastructure to be too unsafe to navigate outside a car. It impoverishes our communities to treat safe, comfortable transportation infrastructure as a luxury or engineering impossibility. The city budget needs to reflect that police only sweep up the mess after traffic violence; the way to prevent it is by investing in safe infrastructure.”
– Erin