Historical June 1984 report or notice. Original dates, prices and contacts describe the source period; current availability has not been established.
Have you walked on Des Peres lately? Have you sat on the four corners benches and enjoyed the calm and quiet? Did you miss the noise and exhaust of the hundreds of cars passing daily from Hodiamont to Hampton using our neighborhood as their conduit?
For those of us who live or walk on Des Peres, the barricades prove to us that we can have a neighborhood again.
Now let us address the very real problem of emergency vehicle access with a Rosedale-like system that will discourage through traffic but allow some local traffic. Let us not waste energy on the irrelevant smoke screen of “racism” but together enjoy a smoke (exhaust) free Des Peres which, though less convenient, can be made to benefit us all—all but the through traffickers. —Bill Kohn
Originally published in The Times of Skinker-DeBaliviere, June 1984.
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