Christian Gooden | Post-Dispatch

For steep cuts in mass transit even as ridership grows.

The condition is not unique to this region, but that’s small comfort to those who rely on publc transportation and whose lives soon will become much more complicated.

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Kevin Manning/Post-Dispatch

Critics scoffed at the idea that St. Louis County voters would consider adding a half cent onto the local sales tax to fund regional public transit.

In this economy? Given the arrogance of past leaders of Metro, St. Louis’ regional…

Robert Cohen/Post-Dispatch

Emily is 27 years old and has Down syndrome. She lives with her parents in Webster Groves, but her mother says she hopes to live on her own one day. Emily’s path to independence lies along Metro’s transit routes.

Emily has…

The streaming video from the July 31 transit summit at Washington University sponsored by Metro now is available online — and has been produced in a very convenient format.

For reasons I explained in an earlier post, I thought it was an…

There’s a connection, or so say the sources in this piece in the Washington Post:

Federal spending is about 4 to 1 in favor of highways over transit. Today, more than 99 percent of the trips taken by U.S. residents are in…