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10.14.2009 1:26 pm

We don’t need or want billboards

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

According to Wm. May, the Director of the Missouri Outdoor Advertising Association (Tues,13 Oct) -the beauty of Missouri is enhanced by the billboard industry! But then this is the same mentality that identifies all the citizens concerned about the devastation…

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10.02.2009 5:30 pm

Missouri needs a TIGER

St. Louis Post-Dispatch
 
 
The Federal Department Of Transportation is administrating a little known stimulus grant program known as Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery.  Otherwise known as a TIGER Grant. A sampling of TIGER grant applications by respective agencies in the state gives an indication…
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09.15.2009 5:28 pm

Piggyback rail has worked before

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Sorry I sent my previous email before I completed my address and phone number. It’s added below. Marian Jansen

I would like to take L.E.Funke’s suggestion of driving large trucks onto flatbed rail cars. In the 70’s, 80’s, etc., I worked…

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06.25.2009 6:31 pm

We must not allow expansion for expansion’s sake

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

 

On June 20th Jim Jacobi of Progress 64 West proposed that Hwy 141 completion represents “the very best investment this area can make with funds available through the ARRA”. If Mr. Jacobi had a case for Hwy 141 completion, he’d…

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02.12.2009 6:09 pm

Transit activists are denied same access

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

To the Editor:

A large part of the reason St. Louis has the problems it has with public transit is the public refuses to listen to the people who actually know transit. They keep listening to people who tell only half…

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12.24.2008 3:30 pm

Vote no on Prop M? Hope you enjoy the traffic jams

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

All those voters who voted against the proposed tax increase for Metro service have only succeeded in hurting themselves. The failure of the proposal will now result in significant reductions in bus and Metrolink service, and, as a result, more…

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12.24.2008 3:13 pm

Doesn’t Metro have enough problems?

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

I’m not sure what all the wringing of hands and gnashing of teeth is about. Every time I’ve seen a Metro bus or the LightRail they’re nearly always empty. Why would you run a big bus constantly when no one…

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12.22.2008 5:39 pm

We don’t need Metro’s lousy service or threats

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

I truly was not surprised at all to read in Saturday’s Post-Dispatch the article by Ken Leiser discovering the supreme hubris that ensured that the defeat in taxes Metro demanded in the November election has excused the Metro management to…

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12.22.2008 5:37 pm

Voters showed they have little regard for working folks

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

What a complicated mess the Metro system is in with the proposed service cuts and elimination of jobs. The failure to pass Prop. M was the result of many factors – the failing economy, cost overruns during the construction of…

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12.16.2008 11:51 am

Hwy. 40 work was worth every penny

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

I live in Ballwin and work in Clayton. Today is my first day to ride the new highway 40. I would like to say that I am very pleased with it. While I wasn’t able to get that detailed of…

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