Absurd Light Rail Project Marches Onward
Metro is hosting a series of public meetings on its proposed new light rail line in St. Louis. Now called...
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...
Light Rail a Losing Proposition for Saint Louis
As the Post-Dispatch recently reported, Mayor Slay is starting to throw his weight behind a long-awaited expansion of the MetroLink,...
Kansas City Streetcar Has First Crash
It was only a matter of time. During a test run, the Kansas City Streetcar collided with its first parked...
MetroLink: The Great Race – Part Deux
On Friday, May 9, Citizens for Modern Transit (CMT) held a race between the MetroLink, cars, and bikers from one...
Light Rail Does Not Replace Cars
A new study about the effect of light rail on traffic was just conducted in England. According to an article...
Light Rail Heavy on Taxpayers’ Wallets
I’ve lived in St. Louis for 19 years now and I’ve used the area’s light rail system ten times …...
Building a Light-Rail System to Nowhere
At the aforementioned forum/debate on Proposition A, which would establish a new half-cent tax to fund MetroLink’s expansion and other...
A Short Rejoinder
First, I’d like to thank Hugh Scott for his response to my op-ed arguing against expansion of the MetroLink system....
Metro Board Member Responds to Show-Me Institute Op-Ed
The Show-Me Institute recently released an op-ed by research assistant John Payne, titled “Adding New MetroLink Lines Too Costly, Inefficient.”...
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....
Adding New MetroLink Lines Too Costly, Inefficient
It is odd to hear serious discussion of expanding MetroLink when the Metro system faces a $50 million shortfall and...
Not a Great Day for Light Rail in Missouri
They weren’t the most popular or eye catching items on the ballot yesterday, but both Proposition M in St. Louis...
Low-Cost Op-Eds About High-Cost Light Rail
Show-Me Institute contributors and scholars have recently submitted a number of opinion pieces about the proposed Metro tax increase in...
Anti-Light Rail Campaign in Kansas City
The Kansas City Star ran an article today about a new group that’s campaigning against the city’s light rail proposal....
Light-Rail Systems Are a False Promise
Rail transit has become such an albatross around the necks of the American cities that have it that it is...
Light Rail Op-Ed By Randal O’Toole in the Post-Dispatch
Randal O’Toole had an op-ed published in the Post-Dispatch yesterday, about light rail and the environment. It is a very...
Tony’s Kansas City Talks About Light Rail
Tony’s Kansas City blog, which is far superior to our own in its choice of pictures, weighs in on light...
Kansas City Light Rail Update
I am going to take the recent news about light rail in Kansas City as an opportunity to further plug...
Light Rail Study Didn’t Focus on Crime
The Kansas City Star‘s Prime Buzz blog yesterday had a couple of posts criticizing our recent light rail study‘s use...
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