The Great Race: Taxi v. Uber v. Metro Link
With UberX finally available in Saint Louis, Show-Me Institute staff decided to hold a race to see how the service...
Saint Louis to Try, Once Again, to Spend its Way to Prosperity
A recent article in the Post-Dispatch reported on the city’s plans to spend more than a billion dollars on a...
What the Ferguson Commission Gets Right and Wrong About Public Transportation in Saint Louis
The Ferguson Commission recently released a report that outlined a series of problems and proposed solutions to racial disparities in...
Light Rail Light on Riders in Saint Louis
With Saint Louis County spending $1 million to study possible MetroLink expansion, light rail proponents are out trying to gin...
Saint Louis to Spend $1 Million on MetroLink Expansion Study
Recently, Saint Louis County announced that it would spend around $1 million to “study” whether the region should commit money...
An Idea for Better Transit in Missouri: Raise Fares
Public transportation in Missouri’s major cities is heavily subsidized; taxpayers cover more than 80 percent of total costs in Saint Louis and...
Blame It On the MTC
Traveling can be stressful. I’m usually comforted when the airplane safely touches down at my final destination, especially when it’s...
Saint Louis Metro Ridership Up, but MetroLink Ridership Down
The latest data released by the national transit database shows the continued, albeit slow, recovery of transit ridership in the...
Make Metro Sustainable, not House Poor
Planners are pushing for a new multibillion-dollar North-South MetroLink line in Saint Louis. While light rail expansion would increase mobility...
Do User Taxes Pay for Highways?
The Post-Dispatch recently published an op-ed from the Center for America Progress (CAP) that argues that all forms of transportation,...
Three Labor Agreements Held By Metro
Below are three labor agreements held by the Bi-State Development Agency of the Missouri-Illinois Metropolitan District (Metro). One is an...
Map Series: III. Proposed MetroLink and Bus Rapid Transit Routes
The map above shows the proposed MetroLink expansion, along with the prime candidates for the first Bus Rapid Transit (BRT)...
Map Series: II. The Loop Trolley and Existing Transit
The map above shows the Loop Trolley in relation to existing demographic characteristics. As the map shows, the Loop Trolley’s...
North-South MetroLink Line Wasteful, Unnecessary
A group of Saint Louis officials and former regional planners are again making the case for a north-south MetroLink line,...
Light Rail Never Sleeps: The Saint Louis Edition
Recently, the U.S. Department of Transportation announced that St. Louis Metro would receive a TIGER (Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery)...
Luxury-Oriented Development in Clayton
This week, Clayton proposed granting a 50 percent property tax abatement for 20 years to a $72 million luxury apartment development—The Crossing—in...
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...
Metro Plans Unfair Fares?
In the past week, Saint Louis’ transit agency Metro has held meetings to discuss a proposed fare increase on Metrobus...
Get Off The Train: Saint Louis Cannot Ride To Economic Growth
Articles written about why we must invest in transit in Saint Louis often say young people want to live in...
Two Thumbs Down on the So-Called ‘Arch Tax’
Voters in Saint Louis City and County will go to the polls on Tuesday, April 2 to decide the fate...
