Year: 2011
MoDOT Set to Build Tower Grove/I-64 Interchange
MoDOT is getting ready to begin major work on I-64 between Kingshighway and Sarah. The project is essentially a continuation of the I-64 rebuild that closed segments of the highway between Spoede and Kingshighway in 2008 and 2009. Environmental studies...
A Voice for All Transit Riders in St. Louis
Today, on the 62th anniversary of the formation of the Bi-State Development Agency, we are pleased to announce the formation of the Transit Riders Union of St. Louis (TRUSTL) which will fight for the public transit needs of the citizens...
Metro Looks for New Downtown Transit Hub
The Civic Center Transit Center is overcrowded. According to Metro, the limited space at Civic Center forces many buses to stop on-street and is responsible for many poorly timed connections. To remedy the capacity issue, Metro is considering either: expanding...
Support City to River, Send Comments to National Park Service ASAP
The scoping process is the most important step in any environmental study. Project scopes are often created with specific ideas in mind and shape the alternatives that are created and considered later on in the process. If an idea does...
Metro Responds
Metro responded via Facebook to my recent post concerning the lack of bus service downtown. The Facebook note in its entirety: Metro instituted the Downtown Trolley during service restoration to serve the destinations east of 14th street by bus. The...
Missing: Local Bus Service in Downtown St. Louis
In a very short post on my Gateway Streets blog yesterday, I posed a very simple question. From just about anywhere in the St. Louis region, “will this bus take me to downtown St. Louis”? The answer, as I so...
This Bus Stop Is Being Eliminated
Metro has recently begun its Bus Stop Evaluation Program, an effort that will examine every bus stop in the Missouri MetroBus system. The goal of the program is to help make the existing system more efficient, better for customers, and...
St. Louisans Familiar With False Claims of Carmaggedon
Carmaggedon in Los Angeles came and went with a fizzle. In fact, it may have been the best day for driving on LA freeways since the 1984 Olympics. For more than two weeks, officials in the land of Hollywood attracted...
Imagining a Wild Mississippi River
Earlier this year, as the Ohio and Mississippi River flooding worsened, many turned their attention on the Old River Control Structure in Louisiana. This set of 3 dams is all that is keeping the Mississippi River from changing course and...
The Triangulation of STL-CHI-IND High-Speed Rail
With the $1.2 billion high-speed rail project between Chicago and St. Louis moving apace, Illinois is moving on to bigger and faster projects. Proposed 220-mph high-speed rail lines. // MHSRA. Last month, Illinois Governor Quinn announced a partnership with the...
Transfering at Forest Park Station After 7pm? Be Prepared to Wait.
When the Cross-County Extension was built, the Forest Park-DeBaliviere MetroLink station was converted from a side platform to a center platform format to better facilitate transfers between the two MetroLink lines. For example, riders headed from Clayton to the airport...