Julie in STL @hyperhouse.bsky.social · 05/10/2026It grinds my gears when we start rewriting history. It’s even little things, like letting a PR justification become the narrative when those who lived it know what really happened. That applies to even local things, like alley recycling ending. For years the city couldn’t maintain pickups. 1131
Julie in STL @hyperhouse.bsky.social · 02/10/2026It’s #weekwithoutdriving and today we had our regular bike pedestrian coalition meeting and as always, we have lots of people join us without cars. Our meeting spot has no bike racks but endless free street parking. It would be nice if the city had spots for bike parking to daylight intersections 030
Julie in STL @hyperhouse.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Monday’s walk was specifically for the purpose of finding the unsecured Spire plates I keep hearing. Every time a car drives over one at night, I hear the wobble and clang of them shifting. They’re required to secure them but the city doesn’t care. Also found some flowers in bloom. 150
Julie in STL @hyperhouse.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Sunday’s walk was actually a walk audit along Cherokee to assess how the street works and how it could be improved for pedestrians, cyclists and transit riders. We had speakers (I was one) and a group lunch after. Having the alderwoman and business owners helped so much. Nearly 30 people showed up! 0100
Julie in STL @hyperhouse.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Hosted a crosswalk action at busy Tower Grove Park today and helped guide so many people across the crossing. Drivers definitely slowed when they saw our vests and signs and pedestrians just loved it. This is your Tower Grove Traffic Report. @towergrovetraffic.bsky.social #stlurbanism 3332
Julie in STL @hyperhouse.bsky.social · 20/09/2026I have now officially completed 1000 St. Louis City streets! I’ve been spending Sundays in Baden and this means lots of hills but also completing lots of streets. Next goal: 2/3 of the city walked! 2271
Julie in STL @hyperhouse.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Yesterday’s walk in Lindenwood Park heavily featured skeletons. 0120
Julie in STL @hyperhouse.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Unfortunately, Bistate beat them to it (as seen at the N Broadway Transit Center) 261
Julie in STL @hyperhouse.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Overall it was a chill walk, mostly in the shade of big trees. I also finished 6 city streets so I’m now at 995 complete St. Louis Streets walked. Many others in progress. 080
Julie in STL @hyperhouse.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Back up to Baden today where I focused on carving out the city/county line. What this looked like is every single block encountering big pots blocking off the city from the county, next to signs “welcoming” me to Bellefontaine Neighbors. 150
Julie in STL @hyperhouse.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Some pieces have gone up near me and it’s so exciting to see them. I’ve been told that visiting on a bright morning with the shadows makes it even cooler. Go see it at the International Institute! 0131
Julie in STL @hyperhouse.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Bistate is set to approve a pilot today to move Metrolink to single cars. They say it will “improve fleet utilization” so why is the internal memo on this making it clear this is about surveillance and policing? This is all part of their long-term plan for a Metro police force. 381
Julie in STL @hyperhouse.bsky.social · 09/09/2026I’m walking every street of St. Louis and fighting for the streets to not be deadly to pedestrians. 0170
Julie in STL @hyperhouse.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Found a route that completed 10 St. Louis City streets in 3 miles. There’s some parts of Baden (today’s walk) that feel very similar to Patch but also to parts of the rural areas I’ve experienced in Missouri. 0110
Julie in STL @hyperhouse.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Very uneventful walk today in the heat, down at the edge of the city. I finished 7 streets and now have completed 976 city streets. Which means I should definitely be aiming for 1000 by year end. 1140
Julie in STL @hyperhouse.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Today I took an early short walk around part of St. Louis Hills. When I was nearly back to my starting point, I spotted a dog on the sidewalk next to a small child in only underwear with bare feet. They had no adults around. Eventually I was able to help the child get home. I still feel uneasy. 1101
Julie in STL @hyperhouse.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Yesterday was the first time in over two years of walking that I’ve encountered St. Louis city/city-contracted mowing. I was pretty excited and there were 2-3 going around Walnut Park East. The actual work product means high grass and weeds at the curb and sidewalks that are still tough to walk 0110
Julie in STL @hyperhouse.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Officially the weirdest thing I've found in a St. Louis CSB report. 130
Julie in STL @hyperhouse.bsky.social · 29/08/2026I was out on Goodfellow recently for my usual walk but also trying to assess where they’d find a place for a data center there too. Half my walks in weird places lately now involve me grabbing photos of power stations. Ameren probably has me on a watch list while I make a data center watch list. 140
Julie in STL @hyperhouse.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Begging them to find a contractor who doesn’t leave intersections in chaos for over a year. I love bike paths but the work with 20th and Grand has been awful for pedestrians and locals 060
Julie in STL @hyperhouse.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Tuesday’s walk took me to three neighborhoods: Near North Riverfront, Old North, and completing Columbus Square (neighborhood 33 completed!). I would have finished Old North too but there was a police presence at the 10th street encampment and I don’t fuck with that. 1120
Julie in STL @hyperhouse.bsky.social · 26/08/2026The official city guidance about sharrows just makes me realize they put them in to check a box and give themselves a pat on the back for "bike paths", not for anything else. Their own guidance about sharrows indicates neighborhood streets with low speeds, and then they put us on high speed stroads. 130
Julie in STL @hyperhouse.bsky.social · 24/08/2026The downtown-adjacent sinkhole is still causing the city trouble and a bunch of roads are closed as a result. So I decided to walk them while they’re car-free. Probably the nicest walk between the alleged Bottle District and the area north of the Landing that I’ve ever had. 0110
Julie in STL @hyperhouse.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Knowing the area I feel like they might interpret it freely 😬 but it’s probably a mix of trying to warn off drugs and gangs and “loitering” though maybe also some of this 020
Julie in STL @hyperhouse.bsky.social · 22/08/2026I log each walk on a usual running app (I use runkeeper but all the main ones work) and then sync to the website citystrides, which cross-references against openstreetmap. It’s really fun to track! citystrides.com 120
Julie in STL @hyperhouse.bsky.social · 22/08/2026I was also traveling between cities. Blocks would be split by the city/county line. Walking down one street I’d pop into Jennings and then one block south somehow I was now in Pine Lawn, and 5 steps later I’m back in the city. There’s no differentiation between Walnut Park East or West per signs. 130
Julie in STL @hyperhouse.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Today’s walk took me to the edges of Walnut Park West and Mark Twain I-70 Industrial. So many parts felt like I was traveling to another era. 191
Julie in STL @hyperhouse.bsky.social · 21/08/2026I last stopped by it in September. I swear it really doesn’t change, for better or worse, but now you have me intrigued on a possible pending sale 130
Julie in STL @hyperhouse.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Beautiful homes from my walk around St. Louis Place yesterday. I feel like the neighborhood is a lot more vacant lots than when I first visited it a decade ago 1210
Julie in STL @hyperhouse.bsky.social · 18/08/2026One last sign: Repair completed by STLrecovers in front of a vacant lot. Because no one knows what’s happening here, not even our sham recovery program. The most frequent sound here was smoke detectors from vacant homes whose batteries are dying. Even they are giving up that help will come. 180
Julie in STL @hyperhouse.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Signs from the walk. Most notable is Larry’s Corner, because St. Louis City never provided daily resources for those living in the tornado zone. It’s all been volunteers. People are still sleeping in campers and tents on porches. The sound of generators was frequent still. 270
Julie in STL @hyperhouse.bsky.social · 18/08/2026The neglect shows up in a lot of ways. I could barely use the sidewalks as tornado debris, tall grass and erosion limited me. Holes are everywhere. City properties are still abandoned. Construction sites force people into St. Louis Ave. The Shelley case is just part of this. 1111
Julie in STL @hyperhouse.bsky.social · 18/08/2026There’s a lot of neglect from the city. This city-owned lot was featured in a news story because the city wasn’t maintaining it. They managed to cut the grass the day after negative press. www.firstalert4.com/2026/07/27/s... 180
Julie in STL @hyperhouse.bsky.social · 18/08/2026The latest kind of sidewalk obstruction in St. Louis is erosion. Neighborhoods now have more demolitions than blue tarps and without erosion control like a straw wattle, the sidewalks end up covered with mud, dirt, rock, brick. You can see in the excavator photo above how mud covers the sidewalk too 160
Julie in STL @hyperhouse.bsky.social · 18/08/2026I saw this excavator in front of this tornado damaged house and assumed I was taking the last photos of this place. Imagine my surprise when I see this house on the news, because St. Louis nearly demolished the wrong house. All her belongings are still inside. www.firstalert4.com/2026/08/17/s... 381
Julie in STL @hyperhouse.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Let’s talk about my Sunday walk through the Greater Ville in St. Louis. First, we check in on the Shelley house, which appears to have more tornado damage than first realized. I believe the homeowners, now in their 90s, have since moved out. We could lose this piece of history forever. 1278
Julie in STL @hyperhouse.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Heartwarming [...] police intervene - amazing work KSDK 0121
Julie in STL @hyperhouse.bsky.social · 12/08/2026New project: I went through all the CSB reports, found how old some are (could it maybe be time to close a curbside dumping request from 2013?) and decided that it’s time to actually audit this stuff. Including the canceled CSB reports for sidewalk issues, which are higher than any other category. 2140
Julie in STL @hyperhouse.bsky.social · 09/08/2026My husband made me pay $0.50 more to only get 5 dozen eggs instead of 15 dozen eggs. Allegedly 15 dozen is “excessive.” But he got 50 pounds of chicken wings and that wasn’t excessive. 😜 Such is the way of Costco Business Center. 160
Julie in STL @hyperhouse.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Oh, and here’s my progress on completing the city as of today. When people ask me where I’m walking, it could be anywhere 2190
Julie in STL @hyperhouse.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Because so much of this is just devoted to trucks and trash and not people, I do want to show shots from interesting moments and buildings in Walk 2. But otherwise it was kind of a chore. 050
Julie in STL @hyperhouse.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Walk number 2 was worse. There wasn’t even a side of the road in most spots, and the only sidewalk we saw is featured below, but it turns out the median fits people. Most of what we saw was decay, the decay of Cementland, and dumping. 230
Julie in STL @hyperhouse.bsky.social · 05/08/2026At the end of the first walk, I took a lovely stroll in Chain of Rocks Park and on the bridge. Then I treated myself to a packed snack, a peach butter brioche donut from Damn Fine Hand Pies. I really don’t think I could have continued on without it. 140
Julie in STL @hyperhouse.bsky.social · 05/08/2026From walk 1, alt text on photos. This walk involved trying not to step in poison ivy on the side of the road, no sidewalks, lots of trash, and lots of trying to figure out if something is a road or not. 110
Julie in STL @hyperhouse.bsky.social · 05/08/2026I’ve started walking in my 77th St. Louis neighborhood now, as I just finished neighborhood 31 (yes, a lot are in process, this is the way of my chaos) 160
Julie in STL @hyperhouse.bsky.social · 01/08/2026Telling myself that the missing or bad St. Louis sidewalks is strengthening my ankle mobility 2162
Julie in STL @hyperhouse.bsky.social · 26/07/2026I was glad that I made it to the corner where a new house is being built. The owners had their home severely damaged in the tornado and decided to start over, but also to double down on their neighborhood by finding ways to support housing for other neighbors 060