Absurd Light Rail Project Marches Onward
Metro is hosting a series of public meetings on its proposed new light rail line in St. Louis. Now called...
MetroLink Light Rail is MetroWaste
A version of this commentary appeared in the St. Louis Business Journal. Between 2014 and 2019, ridership on St. Louis...
Light Rail a Losing Proposition for Saint Louis
As the Post-Dispatch recently reported, Mayor Slay is starting to throw his weight behind a long-awaited expansion of the MetroLink,...
Kansas City Streetcar Has First Crash
It was only a matter of time. During a test run, the Kansas City Streetcar collided with its first parked...
MetroLink: The Great Race – Part Deux
On Friday, May 9, Citizens for Modern Transit (CMT) held a race between the MetroLink, cars, and bikers from one...
Light Rail Does Not Replace Cars
A new study about the effect of light rail on traffic was just conducted in England. According to an article...
Light Rail Heavy on Taxpayers’ Wallets
I’ve lived in St. Louis for 19 years now and I’ve used the area’s light rail system ten times …...
Building a Light-Rail System to Nowhere
At the aforementioned forum/debate on Proposition A, which would establish a new half-cent tax to fund MetroLink’s expansion and other...
A Short Rejoinder
First, I’d like to thank Hugh Scott for his response to my op-ed arguing against expansion of the MetroLink system....
