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Today’s Headlines

By Carrie Zukoski | Mar 21, 2017 | No Comments

MetroLink and Stadium Tax Tied Together, But Why? (Post-Dispatch)
Police Searching for Motorist Who Struck Teenager and Fled in Lebanon Sunday Night (KY3)
Loop Trolley Testing Starting Soon (St. Louis Public Radio)
Free Bus Rides for Veterans in Kansas City (KC Star)
T4America Wants You to Take Action to Keep TIGER Funding
New Online Tool Enables Better Comparisons Between Cities (Planetizen)

Why Is Transit Ridership Falling?

By Angie Schmitt | Mar 20, 2017 | No Comments

Transit ridership took a turn for the worse in 2016. In all but a handful of cities, fewer people rode trains and buses, and it's not just a one-year blip, either. In many American cities, the drop in transit ridership is an established trend. The big question is why.

Today’s Headlines

By Carrie Zukoski | Mar 20, 2017 | No Comments

Multi-Modal Study and a Public Meeting on March 30 on the Future of I-70 in St. Louis (Post-Dispatch)
Motorist Strikes, Severely Injures Man Friday Morning in Downtown St. Louis (KMOX, Post-Dispatch)
Missouri Legislators Want to Create a Transpo Task Force (Ozarks First)
Nuisance Ordinance in Maplewood Goes Far Beyond the Norm (Post-Dispatch)
Expect Minor Delays this Week on MetroLink (NextStop)
St. Louis Takes on Sacramento in Streetsblog’s Parking Madness Bracket
Pedestrian and Other Improvements Start Today at Major Exchange in Columbia (KOMU)

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Parking Madness 2017 Tip-Off: St. Louis vs. Sacramento

By Angie Schmitt | Mar 17, 2017 | No Comments

Welcome to the first match in the first round of Streetsblog's 2017 Parking Madness tournament, our 16-city bracket highlighting the worst "parking craters" in North America. This year, we're focusing on a specific type of parking disaster: transit stations engulfed by car storage.

Today’s Headlines

By Carrie Zukoski | Mar 17, 2017 | No Comments

KC City Vehicle Driver Strikes, Kills Man in Wheelchair (KC Star)
Trump’s Transpo Budget Decimates, Eliminates, Terminates (The Transport Politic, T4America, BreakingNewsI)
Clice Hall, 70, Identified as Man Killed by Motorist Monday in North City (Post-Dispatch)
Let MoDOT Know About Potholes (Boone Country Connection)
CMT’s Ten Toe Express Starts in April (Webster-Kirkwood Times)
The Most Efficient Form of Transportation Is Cycling at Slower Speeds (CityLab)

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Trump’s Budget Takes an Axe to Transit

By Angie Schmitt | Mar 16, 2017 | No Comments

The Trump administration has released its budget blueprint, and it's a bloodbath for everything that's not defense spending. In keeping with the budget's general hostility to cities, transit would be hit especially hard.

Today’s Headlines

By Carrie Zukoski | Mar 16, 2017 | No Comments

Senate Bill 457 Could Make Maintenance of Rural Missouri Roads Even Worse (KTVO)
Joplin Woman Creating a Nonprofit — The Hit and Run Project (KOAM)
Metro Is Part of Stu’s Multi-Modal Commute to Work (NextStop)
Southwest Missouri Council of Governments Wants to Know Your Transpo Needs (Bolivar Herald-Free Press)
Technology Will Theoretically Make Cars Safer (NBC News)
Is There Such a Thing As Too Many Bikes? (Shanghaiist)

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Wichita Upgrades Guerrilla Plungers to Permanent Bike Lane Posts

By Michael Andersen | Mar 15, 2017 | No Comments

Two weeks after two rows of toilet plungers set up to temporarily protect a Wichita bike lane went viral, the city of Wichita has decided that come to think of it, those plungers were making a pretty good point.

Today’s Headlines

By Carrie Zukoski | Mar 15, 2017 | No Comments

Motorist Hits, Kills Woman Tuesday Night in North St. Louis, Third Fatality in Last Two Weeks (Post-Dispatch)
Join at the Finish Line for CMT’s Great Race on May 4
Transpo Officials Across the U.S. Nervously Await Announcement of Trump’s First Annual Budget (T4America)
Self-Driving Cars Will Inevitably Choose to Kill (Good)

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Today’s Headlines

By Carrie Zukoski | Mar 14, 2017 | No Comments

Motorist Strikes, Kills Man in North St. Louis Monday (Post-Dispatch, )
Bi-State’s John Nations and Others in D.C. Lobbying for Federal Funds (Missourinet)
Trailnet Wants Your Input to Shape the Future of St. Louis Neighborhoods and Street Design
Man’s 3-Hour Walk to Work Made Easier by Donation of Bicycle From Area Police Officer (BND)
This Canadian City Created Shift in Cycling Plan by Engaging the “Nervous” Cyclist (Planetizen)

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The Motherland of Soul Is Getting an All-Ages Biking Network

By Michael Andersen | Mar 13, 2017 | No Comments

Even as South Memphis has left deep marks on U.S. culture, its neighborhoods themselves have suffered. Now the city is working through many channels to reverse that -- one of which is putting the district at the front of the queue to get one of the country's first connected networks of all-ages bikeways.

Today’s Headlines

By Carrie Zukoski | Mar 13, 2017 | No Comments

Stenger: West Florissant “Great Streets” Project Is a High Priority (Post-Dispatch)
Here’s the Story Behind These Artistic Bike Racks (RFT)
Kingshighway Project on Schedule (Post-Dispatch)
Blatant Disregard for Pedestrians in Crosswalks (KC Star)
Evening Work on MetroLink’s Blue Line This Week (NextStop)
It’s Congress That’s the Biggest Threat to Transit Funding (CityLab)
How Many Uber and Lyft Trips Are Actually Shared? (Next City)

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