11.23.2009 4:15 am
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
No one likes getting a traffic ticket. Speeding, running a red light, rolling through a stop sign, it doesn’t matter. The increased heartbeat and dry mouth that comes when you see those police lights in the rearview mirror are never welcome.
A motorist in Virginia probably felt that way, and more, after he (or she; I don’t believe it was specified) got stopped recently. The Washington Post reported on Sunday that a motorist who violated the high-occupancy vehicle law got slapped with a $1,000 ticket.
To be fair, it was the driver’s fourth violation. And police said drivers violating the HOV lane law…
09.22.2008 12:53 am
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Metro is about to double the number of fare inspectors checking our ride tickets and passes on MetroLink trains. A story in last week’s Post-Dispatch, MetroLink to double number of fare inspectors claims that transit officials don’t think that very many people are riding the trains for free. But many riders think otherwise.
Metro also said it would add security guards at some stations and beef up the number of uniformed law enforcement officers riding trains and buses.
According to the story, the moves come seven weeks before Metro faces a critical vote in St. Louis County to raise the transit sales tax…
10.28.2007 11:51 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Just about the time that you’ll be recovering from your New Year’s Eve revelry, road blocks will go up if your daily commute is on Highway 40 between Ballas Road and I-170.
Before the morning rush hour on Jan. 2, crews will set up blockades in both directions at Ballas Road on the west and at I-170 and Brentwood Boulevard on the eastern edge of the closure.
Today’s story by reporter Elisa Crouch explains that state contractors will immediately begin demolishing bridges over Lindbergh Boulevard, Brentwood Boulevard, and Clayton and Warson roads.
Once work west of I-170 ends, crews will close lanes from…
05.07.2007 1:44 am
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
In a story today by Nancy Cambria, we learn that Lincoln County is the second fastest growing county in the state. Last year, about 840 new homes were built. Its population has increased by 29 percent in the past five years to more than 50,000.
This expansion is taxing the services and infrastructure of Lincoln County, where many roads are still gravel or dirt.
People say they like to get away to the country on the weekends, but increasingly, the “country” keeps getting pushed further away.
With housing costs rising across St. Louis and St. Charles counties, people are searching further out…
