Last month St. Louis finally got some balls.Put more specifically, 6th Ward Alderwoman Christine Ingrassia spearheaded an effort to slow traffic along Compton Avenue in south city, using $300,000 of her ward's budget to install painted bump-outs and large, concrete spheres at six intersections: Park, Lafayette, Shenandoah, Magnolia, Russell and Arsenal. Though similar orbs have been used in the city for years to block off streets entirely, this is the first time they've been put in place to try to control the flow of traffic.
Nicknamed "Slay Balls" after former mayor Francis Slay's sizable testicles (probably?), the goal of the round roadblocks is to slow cars and discourage motorists from blowing through stop signs by narrowing the roadways at the intersections.
“It’s definitely an issue,” Ingrassia told Fox 2 when the project started.…