Update: This configuration was completed. Yesterday, on an on-line chat at the Post-Dispatch, Todd Waeltermann confirmed that Manchester Avenue between Kingshighway and Vandeventer is being reduced from four lanes to two. Due to the increased pedestrian activity, this is a great step towards making the Grove a more desirable place to live. Frankly, the old…
Tag: Historic Roads
Driving Manchester Road
I originally had the idea of driving the whole length of Chouteau Ave/Manchester Ave/Manchester Road all the way out to Gray’s Summit, but I got so annoyed at the traffic and absolute monotony of the drive, that I bailed at Geyer Road and drove by the old church Eli Lovejoy preached at. Below is my…
Old Route 66, from I-55, Illinois
As we headed south on I-55, my father pointed a stretch of Route 66 that he and my mother used to drive on before the interstate system had completed I-55. Originally, it was actually four lanes divided in Illinois, and the southbound lanes became a frontage road, while the northbound lanes became the southbound lanes…