Green Means Stop
Earlier this week, the City of St. Louis and the Bi-State Development Agency, better known as Metro, officially cancelled the...
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Costly AND Outdated.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...
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...
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,...
MetroBus System Changes, 2009-2014: More Miles, Fewer Stops, Higher Price Tag
Saint Louis MetroBus service has undergone many changes since the success of 2009’s Proposition A, which increased sales taxes in...
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)...
Saint Louis Needs Better Bus Rapid Transit Plans
In a previous post, we outlined how Metro is planning to introduce Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) in the Saint Louis...
Amendment 7: The Tax That Keeps On Taxing
According to current projections, the proposed Missouri Amendment 7, or 0.75-cent transportation sales tax, would raise $5.4 billion for roads,...
Metro Plans Unfair Fares?
In the past week, Saint Louis’ transit agency Metro has held meetings to discuss a proposed fare increase on Metrobus...
Joseph Miller on Mass Transit in St. Louis
Have you heard of the proposed Metro fare increases? Metro may need to raise fares to cover its rising expenses....
Where Are The Metro Buses We Paid For? (Part 2)
My last post about the Metro bus system in Saint Louis detailed how Metro’s focus on maintaining low-passenger bus routes reduces...
Where Are The Metro Buses We Paid For?
Local news outlets recently reported about the lack of spaces on buses in Saint Louis, specifically pointing out overcrowding on...
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