NextStop STL

You are riding home on the train. The sun is setting, pink light washing over the train yards in midtown, and you think to yourself, “This would make a great photo.” Pull out your camera, snap, and you’ve captured a great image of St. Louis, taken from MetroLink. Or maybe you and your family are [...]

The University of Missouri–St. Louis (UMSL) Community Partnership Project presents “One Year Later: Lessons from the Passage of Prop A,” Wednesday, April 6, 2011, 4:00–5:30 p.m., in the J.C. Penney Conference Center at UMSL. The seminar will explore the factors for its success and implications for the future. UMSL Professors Todd Swanstrom and Dr. David Kimball will [...]

Citizens for Modern Transit (CMT) was awarded $598,750 in Missouri Federal Congestion Mitigation and Quality Improvement (CMAQ) funds for the implementation of their St. Louis Transit Action Program, a new 3-year program focusing on the theme, “Transit – All of us need it, come out and ride it – it’s as easy as 1,2,3!” CMT [...]

It’s hot outside.  It’s mid-August, and the heat and humidity is practically melting the fortitude off of the average St. Louisans.  But have faith, for even the most brutal of Augusts only have 31 days.  Now’s the time to start looking ahead to September and the sweet relief of cooler temperatures and fading sunlight, and [...]

Browsing at Citizens for Modern Transit the other morning, I was reminded about their Guaranteed Ride Home program, and I thought the information was worth passing along. Check out the link, but basically the Guaranteed Ride Home serves as a “security blanket” for commuters who want to use bike or transit to get to and [...]