This local news article [1] has me pondering. They are almost halfway through revamping the main interstate through town. They closed it for 2 years. While it is closed and accessible, they are not putting a light rail route along the busiest corridor in the area. That’s my main overall peeve. And it is being closed by halves. This year had the section halfway through the county entirely closed, and next year a section through half of the city will be completely closed.
But the news is: They are switching sections two weeks early (out of a year, and earning a 0.4% bonus incentive). But those two weeks are the busy shopping time. They are opening the artery from affluent far county to the shopping hub of the region in time for excess-mas. The cynic in me thinks that shopkeepers may have sweetened the pot. But that isn’t the point, either.
My title is about one piece of their celebration. A Fun Bike Ride on December 14 along a section of the new highway. Saint Louis may be on the borderline of The South. But mid December is not generally family biking fun weather. Usually cloudy, windy, and 34°±20 (official mid-December average temperature). But it could be sunny and mid 50’s. Not the way to bet.
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