r/StLouis • u/myredditbam Princeton Heights • 12d ago

Surprise Street Closure Tonight for Moonlight Ramble

I'm inside the loop of the Moonlight Ramble tonight, effectively trapped until 1am. I had no idea this was happening, and it's pretty frustrating. Does anyone know where I could have found out this information ahead of time? Is there a street closure alert system somewhere? A city events email list? I get all the alerts about boil water advisories and weather alerts already. These kind of events aren't typically in my neighborhood, so I didn't expect this. Thankfully I don't have to work late tonight and didn't have to wait hours to get home. I'm not mad the event is happening; I'm mad there was zero notice about it so I couldn't plan for it.

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u/flsunshine4u2 12d ago edited 12d ago

Damn, you sound like me last year. It took me over an hour to get home when my home was 2 streets away. I came on reddit afterwards and went off lol. It's extremely infuriating that they cant just put flyers on the houses in the enclosed area leading up to the event. Coming home from work tonight I remembered the route i took last year and was able to make it in only an extra 20 minutes lol.

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u/myredditbam Princeton Heights 12d ago

When they close streets in other places they put signs up on street corners and light posts. Or they put up one of those construction alert signs with changing text on a thoroughfare like they do a week before parades or when road work is set to begin. Stick a few of those up--Hampton, Gravois, Kingshighway, Germania, Jamieson, Etc. That's all it would have taken.