MoDOT Hoping to Improve Traffic Flow on Olive Boulevard

The Missouri Department of Transportation (MoDOT) is looking to improve the traffic flow on Olive Boulevard, a road that has likely been the source of many a frustrated commute for St. Louis County drivers. Olivette drivers will be glad of that.

The east-west street stretches from Chesterfield on one end to University City on the other, and MoDOT officials recently told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch’s Ride Guy that they have hired a consultant to examine how its 47 traffic signals can be better synchronized.

The move follows the completion of improvements to allow Highway 141 in Chesterfield to carry more traffic. MoDOT spokeswoman Linda Wilson Horn said the study will likely result in a few seconds being added to green lights throughout Olive Boulevard, according to the Post-Dispatch article.

The idea, she said, is to help Olive flow better as a unit rather than intersection by intersection by utilizing a technique called “platooning.”

Essentially, it will mean drivers should be able to move farther once they hit their first green light.

Read the full article for more information on the study and MoDOT hopes to accomplish.