The Light Rail Line Less Traveled
If anyone has taken Robert Frost’s words to heart and taken the road less traveled, it is Metro, the St....
Costly AND Outdated.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...
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...
Beating A Dead Trolley
A plan to keep the Trolley running for four more years under Metro’s guidance received no supporting votes during a...
North-South MetroLink Expansion: Snake Oil for Saint Louis
Mayor Slay and many—but not all—regional leaders are peddling a curious elixir: a $2 billion expansion of MetroLink. The expansion...
Job Growth in Missouri: Depends on Where You Live
Missouri’s nonfarm employment growth over the past year significantly lags nearly every other state. The picture is somewhat brighter for...
Metro Ridership Trending Down in 2015
Earlier this year, we talked about how, contrary to the hopes of many Saint Louis regional planners, there is no...
Saint Louis Transportation Planning Prioritizes Public Transportation, MetroLink
Saint Louisans depend on a functioning transportation system to do practically everything in their lives, from getting to work to...
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...
