Green Means Stop
Earlier this week, the City of St. Louis and the Bi-State Development Agency, better known as Metro, officially cancelled the...
“It cost what?” —KC Streetcar Announces Opening of New Extension
A friend called me the other night. Fox4KC had just aired a story about the opening date of the latest...
The Future of Public Transit in St. Louis with Randal O’Toole
Susan Pendergrass speaks with Randal O’ Toole about his new report “Is St. Louis Transit Built for the 2020s or...
The Folly of MetroLink Expansion
The Show-Me Institute is excited to release a new report by Randal O’Toole, one of the nation’s premier transportation economists....
Costly AND Outdated. Where Do We Sign Up?
The Bi-State Development Agency, commonly known now as Metro, is once again proposing to expand the MetroLink light rail system...
An Open Letter To Streetcar Supporters
At the recent meeting of the Kansas City Save the Trolley Trail, supporters of an expanded streetcar system dismissed assertions from the Show-Me...
Streetcars Will Waste Your Money And Your Time
Paul Jacob writes in his blog This is Common Sense: Transportation scholar Randal O’Toole regales us with the fix that...
Missouri’s TIF Infestation
If I got to pick it, the slogan for my beloved home state of Missouri would be: “Missouri: We’re In The...
On Aerotropolis and High-Speed Rail
Over the weekend the St. Louis Post-Dispatch published a commentary written by Ripley Rasmus of the consulting firm HOK. In...
Off the Track
The governor has announced that Missouri will seek additional funding for high-speed rail. This is, in my opinion, a very...
Private-Sector Investment Could Build Innovative Urban Corridor
The Show-Me Institute recently published a case study by Jerome J. Day that takes an expansive look at transportation infrastructure...
You’ve Been on a Fast Train, and It’s Going Off the Rail
Transportation expert (and sometimes Show-Me Institute author) Randal O’Toole wrote an editorial for USA Today about the folly of huge...
U.S. PIRG Publication Misrepresents Substance of Show-Me Institute Article
While looking for some academic papers on Google Scholar, I took a moment, as an afterthought, to see whether the...
SMI Research Assistant John Payne on FOX 2 tonight at 10:00
Charles Jaco just finished taping an interview with Show-Me Institute research assistant John Payne, about the Metro mass transit system...
Gridlock and the History of Light Rail in Saint Louis
I’m currently reading Gridlock: Why We’re Stuck in Traffic and What to Do About It by Randal O’Toole, the Antiplanner....
Feds Allocate $8 Million to High-Speed Rail; Missouri Gets a 0.39% Cut
Yesterday, the Obama administration pledged $8 billion in federal stimulus funds to develop a high-speed rail system in the United...
Amtrak And Tax Dollars
The headline for this AP article on rail subsidies says it all. Shockingly, a government agency has overstated its efficiency...
The High Cost of High-Speed Rail
During the drive home from work yesterday, I listened to a discussion of high-speed rail on NPR’s “Marketplace.” Mitchell Hartman...
Commuter Rail Plan for Jackson County
I guess because we are always going somewhere, transit issues never seem to go away. Just today, we have the...
Your Weekend Irony
We have had a little bit of irony recently here at the Show-Me Institute. Randal O’Toole came into town to...
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