The Time Has Come For I-64 / 40

State and Local Government | April 17, 2007

By David Stokes | Read Time 1 minute

It’s here. No matter if you like it or not, the new I-64 reconstructino project is here. I, for one, prefer two and a half years of traffic hell to six or seven years of half-hell, but I work in Clayton and live in U. City so those of you about to be seriously affected by this can feel free to ignore me. The simple closure of this one lane (the westbound ramp from Hanley southbound) should nonetheless have an enormous inpact on traffic. With all the westbound traffic leaving Clayton at 5 PM going over to Brentwood and the Forest Park Parkway, those streets will be very crowded at evening rush hour. I think its time for the bar owners of Clayton to launch a renewed push for the after-work crowd.

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David Stokes

David Stokes is a St. Louis native and a graduate of Saint Louis University High School and Fairfield (Conn.) University. He spent six years as a political aide at the St. Louis County Council before joining the Show-Me Institute in 2007. Stokes was a policy analyst at the Show-Me Institute from 2007 to 2016. From 2016 through 2020 he was Executive Director of Great Rivers Habitat Alliance, where he led efforts to oppose harmful floodplain developments done with abusive tax subsidies. Stokes rejoined the Institute in early 2021 as the Director of Municipal Policy. He is a past president of the University City Library Board. He served on the St. Louis County 2010 Council Redistricting Commission and was the 2012 representative to the Electoral College from Missouri’s First Congressional District. He lives in University City with his wife and their three children.

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