The 25 Worst Intersections in St. Louis
By Riverfront Times Staff on Fri, Sep 28, 2018 at 10:14 pm
If you’re trying to get around St. Louis streets and not lose your life, it’s probably best if you avoid these clusterf*ck intersections. Some of them have multiple streets crossing in the same place, some of them are terrifying and one of them will just trap you into going on a bridge and then dump you in a neighboring state. You don’t want to find out how bad these intersections are, so stay away if you can.
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Gravois Ave. & Morganford Rd. & Delor St.
What in the heck. Every time you get out in the middle of this intersection you feel like you're about to lose your life. Nobody knows what the hell is going on here. Trust no one.
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What in the heck. Every time you get out in the middle of this intersection you feel like you're about to lose your life. Nobody knows what the hell is going on here. Trust no one.
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Brentwood Blvd. & Highway 40 and 170
This is one of the biggest jokes in all of St. Louis. To deal with this you need a compass, a rosary, an extra 45 minutes and a willingness to die for retail opportunities. Don't even attempt it.
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This is one of the biggest jokes in all of St. Louis. To deal with this you need a compass, a rosary, an extra 45 minutes and a willingness to die for retail opportunities. Don't even attempt it.
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S. Hanley Rd. & Eager Rd. by Highway 40
If you've ever driven through here, you know this is the worst. To get to Eager from driving south on Hanley, you have to go around the back of buildings and everything is screwed and weird going from Eager and then trying to get back on 40. Avoid.
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If you've ever driven through here, you know this is the worst. To get to Eager from driving south on Hanley, you have to go around the back of buildings and everything is screwed and weird going from Eager and then trying to get back on 40. Avoid.
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Chippewa St. at Jefferson Ave. and S. Broadway
This intersection is so bad, there's actually a big X in the middle of it. Driver beware!
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This intersection is so bad, there's actually a big X in the middle of it. Driver beware!
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Memorial Dr. at Lumiere Pl. Blvd. A.K.A. Dr. Martin Luther King Bridge
If you're down near Laclede's Landing and make an innocent turn on something called Lumiere Place Boulevard to get to the river, well good freakin' luck, because your ass is going all the way to Illinois. You have no other choice. And it ain't easy to turn around once you're over there, either.
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If you're down near Laclede's Landing and make an innocent turn on something called Lumiere Place Boulevard to get to the river, well good freakin' luck, because your ass is going all the way to Illinois. You have no other choice. And it ain't easy to turn around once you're over there, either.
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S. Kingshighway Blvd. at Highway 40
This is terrifying. It's shocking that there aren't major accidents here daily. When crossing over and merging onto Kingshighway from 40, it feels like the cars across from you going in the opposite direction are going to slam into you headfirst. Terrifying.
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This is terrifying. It's shocking that there aren't major accidents here daily. When crossing over and merging onto Kingshighway from 40, it feels like the cars across from you going in the opposite direction are going to slam into you headfirst. Terrifying.
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S. Jefferson Ave. & Sidney St. & Gravois Ave.
Cars coming from every angle? Gravois is guilty of this in multiple locations. If someone tells you to make a right here, you're going to have to ask them "right or right-right?" every time.
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Cars coming from every angle? Gravois is guilty of this in multiple locations. If someone tells you to make a right here, you're going to have to ask them "right or right-right?" every time.
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Lindell Blvd. & Olive St.
If you're driving east on Lindell from Grand, you'll run into this weird little intersection where Olive jumps in. There are two lights in this intersection, one right after the next, and this being St. Louis, naturally the lights aren't synched, so nobody knows which to follow.
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If you're driving east on Lindell from Grand, you'll run into this weird little intersection where Olive jumps in. There are two lights in this intersection, one right after the next, and this being St. Louis, naturally the lights aren't synched, so nobody knows which to follow.
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Chippewa St. at Watson Rd.
This intersection is on an angle and it's way too wide. When you're driving through the middle you feel like you're just out there and exposed and you want to rush to get back to where there is order once again.
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This intersection is on an angle and it's way too wide. When you're driving through the middle you feel like you're just out there and exposed and you want to rush to get back to where there is order once again.
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Cherokee St. & Gravois Ave.
What on Earth is going on? How do you even turn left here? Where do you even turn left here? We will never figure it out.
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What on Earth is going on? How do you even turn left here? Where do you even turn left here? We will never figure it out.
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S. Kingshighway Blvd. at Shaw Ave.
They changed around this whole thing and now nobody knows what to do. Now if you turn where you used to turn to get around O'Connells, you end up at a dead end. Now there is a winding road on the other side of the restaurant. Who designed this mess?
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They changed around this whole thing and now nobody knows what to do. Now if you turn where you used to turn to get around O'Connells, you end up at a dead end. Now there is a winding road on the other side of the restaurant. Who designed this mess?
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McCausland Ave. & Oakland Ave. & Clayton Ave.
You know this clusterfudge. When you're in the shadow of the world's largest Amoco sign everything is squirrelly. So many roads converge right next to the highway and then there's that little tiny road by the Hi-Pointe that seems like an alley that leads to a driveway ... but it isn't. Lord.
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You know this clusterfudge. When you're in the shadow of the world's largest Amoco sign everything is squirrelly. So many roads converge right next to the highway and then there's that little tiny road by the Hi-Pointe that seems like an alley that leads to a driveway ... but it isn't. Lord.
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Lambert Freakin' Airport
Even if you've lived here your entire live and seen it through the many redesigns, you will still always feel like you're in the wrong lane when you're outside the airport. Mercy on our tourists, who don't have a prayer of figuring it out.
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Even if you've lived here your entire live and seen it through the many redesigns, you will still always feel like you're in the wrong lane when you're outside the airport. Mercy on our tourists, who don't have a prayer of figuring it out.
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The Murdoch Cutoff
You have to master this to get your St. Louis cred, but we're still confused every damn time we get near it. This Shrewsbury street is like a time machine where you just skip streets on an angle and end up far from where you started. Warp driving? It's beyond our understanding.
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You have to master this to get your St. Louis cred, but we're still confused every damn time we get near it. This Shrewsbury street is like a time machine where you just skip streets on an angle and end up far from where you started. Warp driving? It's beyond our understanding.
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N. Lindbergh at Highway 270
North county urban legend holds that this stupid intersection has caused so many accidents that the engineer who designed it killed himself out of guilt. It's serious stuff.
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North county urban legend holds that this stupid intersection has caused so many accidents that the engineer who designed it killed himself out of guilt. It's serious stuff.
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S. Vandeventer & De Tonty St. at Highway 44
You have to have someone show you how to work this intersection. Don't try to figure it out on your own, especially if you're trying to get on 44 headed east.
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You have to have someone show you how to work this intersection. Don't try to figure it out on your own, especially if you're trying to get on 44 headed east.
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Hampton Ave. & Oakland Ave. at Highway 40
If you're on Oakland headed west and you want to get onto Highway 40 also headed west, you have to turn right onto Hampton and cross up to five lanes of traffic in about 40 feet. Death trap.
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If you're on Oakland headed west and you want to get onto Highway 40 also headed west, you have to turn right onto Hampton and cross up to five lanes of traffic in about 40 feet. Death trap.
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Eastbound Highway 40 between Big Bend and Bellvue
Once you escape under the big Brentwood & 170 lanes overhead, you're faced with a terrible choice: Get all the way in the left lane or die. Why? Because there is always all kinds of slamming-on-breaks nonsense that goes on here.
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Once you escape under the big Brentwood & 170 lanes overhead, you're faced with a terrible choice: Get all the way in the left lane or die. Why? Because there is always all kinds of slamming-on-breaks nonsense that goes on here.
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Grand Blvd. & Forest Park Parkway
Our informal survey voted this intersection as one of the worst of the worst. People get stuck out in the middle of this crazy mess with nowhere to go and nothing is clearly marked and then they added in a Starbucks there! You will get caught. Avoid it.
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Our informal survey voted this intersection as one of the worst of the worst. People get stuck out in the middle of this crazy mess with nowhere to go and nothing is clearly marked and then they added in a Starbucks there! You will get caught. Avoid it.
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Southwest Ave. & Watson Rd. & Sulfur Ave.
Clifton Heights is such a poorly designed neighborhood. The houses are weird, the street design is illogical and it's all capped off with this dumbass intersection. The unnecessary island further complicates things and nobody has any clue what to do here.
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Clifton Heights is such a poorly designed neighborhood. The houses are weird, the street design is illogical and it's all capped off with this dumbass intersection. The unnecessary island further complicates things and nobody has any clue what to do here.
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