What I Would Like to See from the Resurrected Trolley
The Bi-State Development Agency has granted the Loop Trolley a new lease on life. Given the trolley’s poor track record,...
New Year, Same Problems with the Loop Trolley
The Loop Trolley is causing trouble for Saint Louis area officials again. The problem this time is possibly having to...
Please, Just Give Us All a Break
It almost isn’t funny anymore; actually, it hasn’t been funny for a long time. The roll out of the Delmar...
The Asterisk in Streetcar Reporting
Bill Turque over at The Kansas City Star wrote the standard piece on this week’s streetcar extension vote, and gave...
(Yet) Another Chapter in the Loop Trolley Bungle
The Loop Trolley appears stuck in an endless loop of delays. It was recently announced that the opening of the...
Feds Find KC Streetcar Deficient
On July 24, the Federal Transit Administration issued a triennial review of Kansas City, Missouri, and its FTA-funded projects, namely...
Face-Palm: Loop Trolley Over-Budget, Likely Delayed, Again
Face-palming is defined as: Bringing the palm of one’s hand to one’s face, as an expression of disbelief, shame, or...
Is the Streetcar a Development Magnet?
Those who have followed the expansion of streetcars in Kansas City and across the country will know that the primary...
Streetcars and the Error of Confusing Correlation vs Causation
On January 20, I will participate in a panel discussion of the Kansas City streetcar sponsored by the American Public...
Streetcars Have Lost the Left
President Lyndon Johnson famously said of Missouri-born news anchor Walter Cronkite, “If I’ve lost Cronkite, I’ve lost America.” Johnson was...
Blame Canada Washington!
Austin Alonzo, of the Kansas City Business Journal, recently reported that Kansas City Mayor Sly James argued that a door-to-door public outreach...
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...
The Streetcars Strike Back
Despite their inefficiency and high cost, local planners are attempting to revive the streetcar system in Saint Louis based on...
The Loopy Rationale For A Loop Trolley
If you want to travel from the Loop to Forest Park in Saint Louis, there is no shortage of options:...
Double Trouble: Kansas City Considers Extending Trolley Line To Plaza
It seems like only yesterday that I was calling Kansas City’s trolley plans a slow motion train wreck, yet the...
