As business owners on the “No Parking” side of Big Bend in The Edge of Old Orchard, we’d like to share our point of view on the new striping.
The way St. Louis County restriped Big Bend has taken away the parking we’ve had in front of our business for 22 years. With no parking in front of our business and only three to four spots in the back, we’ve personally been parking at nearby lots so our clients can park on our property.
Our small lot is one way, in and out, so there are times when our clients have to back out into a traffic lane of fast-moving cars on Big Bend. (If you stand at the curb, traffic passes inches in front of you.)
We have weekly deliveries of framing materials from several vendors —including large, heavy boxes of glass and 9- to 10-foot long sticks of moulding and a host of other items. Our vendors’ trucks are too large to turn around behind our business, so they take their lives in their hands by either “parking” in the turn lane, unloading — and walking the materials across the traffic lane — or “parking” in the traffic lane and hoping traffic will go around them.
We’d like to thank our clients for putting up with the inconvenience this presents. We’d also lik...