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Saturday, May 1, 2010; 9:00 AM - 12:00 Noon

Meet at: Crossroads (map)

At the same time that the Gateway Arch was completed, Interstate 70 opened between the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial site and downtown St. Louis. Although intended to bring people into the region's center, the interstate disrupted the city's street grid and isolated the new national monument and the river from the activity of downtown. A two-hundred-year-old connection was lost. Now, St. Louis has a momentous opportunity to revisit the unintended consequences of the interstate. The time has come to reopen the region's front door.

With the help of Rick Bonash of the "City to River" program, we'll take MetroLink from Crossroads to Busch Stadium, walk along the fragmented area between downtown and the Arch grounds to Laclede's Landing. Mr. Bonasch will describe the history of how downtown and the river became separated and proposed plans to address the problem by 2015, the 50th anniversary of the completion of the Arch. We'll take the MetroLink back to Crossroads from Laclede's Landing. Be at Crossroads (map) by 9:00 AM; we'll be back by Noon.

More information on plans to link downtown to the Arch grounds and Mississippi River is available by clicking here.

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