If he backs his words with money, transit will be getting more federal funds in the next few years. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said today that buses and trains need to be given greater priority in the transportation mix. This should…

The American Public Transportation Association is offering one year of free public transportation to the winner of a video contest. The contest is part of today’s Dump the Pump Day, when transit systems nationwide try to get drivers out of…

Thursday is Dump the Pump Day — the national effort to get people out of their cars and on public transportation. Transit agencies nationwide will be promoting buses and light trail. Other groups will be promoting bicycling and walking.

In St. Louis,…

As if things could get much worse for the region’s public transportation system. Now the agency expects the recession to take a sizable bite out of Metro’s advertising income next year.

Granted, the amount of money generated by selling ad space on the…

Busch Stadium crowds filed into MetroLink trains without waiting too long after today’s opening day game between the Pirates and the Cardinals.

Trains were still running on rush-hour schedules after the final out of the Cardinals’ 6-4 loss. And many people…

Fans going to this afternoon’s home opener at Busch Stadium between the Cardinals and the Pirates are being encouraged to leave early.

Because of Metro’s budget cuts, there won’t be any extra trains to handle the crush of spectators who will…

Metro bus driver Lisa Davis picked up her last check today at the Amalgamated Transit Union office in St. Louis. Through the gloom of transit cuts and layoffs, she remained optimistic that the St. Louis transit agency will be rescued and…

Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon said he’s concerned about the deep transit cuts Metro was forced to roll out on Monday, saying the effects will be felt in the local economy.

Following a speech to Boeing Co. workers near Lambert-St. Louis International Airport today,…

While hanging around Metro bus and MetroLink stops this morning, I heard two themes repeated again and again.

People who continue taking public transportation in our area will do so with more stress. Those who can drive to work instead probably…

When Chesterfield Mayor John Nations learned that Metro’s bus service cutbacks would cut off workers from hospitals, nursing homes and retail centers in the valley, he considered it a “call to action.”

During the past few weeks, he’s been talking to Metro…