Because Gravois is a diagonal road that cuts through the standard street grid, side streets often enter Gravois within 50 feet of each other. That means that at intersections with signals, there are six legs of traffic at one intersection instead of the normal four.

MoDOT, which maintains the state-owned road that is part of Highway 30, had said reducing the number of entrances to Gravois would help keep the flow of traffic steadier and reduce the areas where pedestrians have to cross roads along Gravois.

The streets that would have lost access were southbound Tennessee Avenue; southbound Louisiana Avenue; northbound and southbound Pennsylvania Avenue; eastbound and westbound Lynch Street; eastbound and westbound Shenandoah Avenue; and eastbound and westbound Wyoming Street.

Other streets that eventually could have been cut off from Gravois included Juniata Street, Oregon Avenue, Virginia Avenue, Sidney Street and Ann Avenue.

But that doesn’t mean controversy over the future of Gravois is done. The goals of the revised project on the road are to improve signals and repair and resurface the road — and while that work is being done, MoDOT said it can consider changes to striping and signals.