I did confirm that the bike counter is non-working.

I didn't confirm that the ped counter was working - I was in a hurry!

A new bike-ped counter on the Tower Grove Connector reads: 0 bikes today 0 bikes this year 174 walkers today 591 walkers this year

Map showing location of the counter: Tower Grove Connector just north of Magnolia.

This is your Tower Grove Connector Traffic Report:

Bike-ped counter is more-or-less installed!

Cracked, buckled sidewalk

80% underwater sidewalk

Map of pictured sidewalks: East side of Kingshighway on the south half of the park.

The west sidewalk is in disrepair.

Front of the Shakespeare statue with a relief of Falstaff on the base.

Tower Grove Park Tuesday!

Falstaff gets star billing, but do you know what other characters are memorialized on the Shakespeare staute? No cheating!

The answer coming up in a bit....

S. Grand curb cut with no corner, nay not even an edge, for you to hit your head on.

But South Grand wins the safety prize with this even better smoothing technique, which they use everywhere!

Curb cut with smoothed curb

In comparison this Brickline Greenway cut has smoothing.

This just opened today, by the way.

Curb cut with sharp corners crossing Tower Grove Ave north of Magnolia Ave

This 'sharp' curb cut I photographed just hours before is now right under that minivan.

Everyone reports being okay.

Photo after a car-on-car crash at Tower Grove Connector and Magnolia

Hello. This is your late-breaking afternoon rush hour traffic report for Tower Grove:

BEWARE OF CARS.

My takeaway is: how we shape our concrete matters. You wouldn't put a bunch of blades next to your trails. Why do we put a bunch of pointy concrete things next to our trails?

ped curb cut with two sharp curbs

driveway curb cut with smooth curb

curb cut to separated bikeway with acutely sharp curb pointing at both cyclists and pedestrian travel vectors.

WOMP WOMP!

We only smooth the curbs in applications where _motor vehicles_ are likely to incur damage from the curb. If it's just _human beings_, we go for sharp corners!

Star Wars meme Anakin Skywalker: We're building a bikeway Padme Amidala: [laughing] Groovy! We'll use the smoother curbs near cyclists and walkers, right? Anakin: [no answer] Padme: [taken aback]

Obviously the curved type is less bad to head butt!

So we're putting pedestrians plus all these bicyclists with wildly different ranges of bike control skills on the Tower Grove Connector. Will we use smooth curbs or pointy curbs where they're likely to fall?

We can build concrete curbs either curved or with sharp angles.

The brand new Tower Grove Connector features a mix of smooth and sharp.

Which type would you rather hit with your head?

Boys playing baseball

5 year olds are out in force today, taking to the fields for soccer and baseball!

Farmer's Market tents in Center Cross Drive in TGP

In the market for a farmer? Check out today's farmers market!

Specifically, we caution against eastbound Arsenal bike lane travel during afternoon rush, since Arsenal motorists turning south towards housing turn across the bike lane without checking for overtaking cyclists All.The.Time.

Westbound has only one intersection, and so is safer.

For local access, consider the Arsenal bike lane, but only if you have the necessary traffic skills!

Hello and welcome to today's Tower Grove Traffic Report.

Expect extreme trail bumpyness on the southern tier of park paths paralleling Arsenal Street. (red). We recommend detouring one tier north for thru traffic.

Yesterday at the park, with kids climbing on trees...

Kid1: You should put in your traffic report "watch out for kids falling out of trees"

Kid2: That's not a traffic report. That's a weather report.

Construction blocking NE Drive

Tulips in bloom

Map of affected segment of NE Drive, in Tower Grove Park

Hello! Today's Tower Grove Traffic Report:

Watch for construction blocking NorthEast Drive near Piper Palm house. Foot traffic can divert to multi-use trails featuring tulips in full bloom.

A 95% unobstructed new asphalt trail going past Humboldt Pavillion in TGP

Map of the trail, paralleling Main Drive to the South, stretching from Center Cross Drive to Osborne Drive.

Good Morning. This is your Tower Grove Traffic Report.

Construction fencing on the trail on the south side of Main Drive has been cleared at both Humbolt and Cypress South shelters. Happy trails!