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Transportation

  • Blogs

    May 25, 2012

    Flying High: Happy Hour to Arrive at Lambert at 4 a.m.

    The airline industry needs cash in a major way. Overall profits were down some $3 billion last year, and so airlines have started rolling out well-publicized, much-maligned fees for things like checked bags and carry-on luggage. (Enjoy using that armrest for free while you still can.) Thankfully, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 21, 2012

    The People vs. Public Transportation

    Editor: Tef Poe is an artist from St. Louis City. Through powerful imagery and complicated honesty, he has earned a reputation as one of the best rappers telling the story of St. Louis, which is about much more than one place. Poe has been featured in music publications such as XXL and Urb Magazine. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 13, 2011

    "Security Concerns" Force US Airways Flight to Land in St. Louis

    ​A US Airways flight form New York to Phoenix this morning made an unexpected stop at Lambert-St. Louis International Airport. Jeff Lea, spokesman for the airport, tells Daily RFT that the plane landed at 7:50 a.m. because of a "security-related concern." Passengers were taken off the plane. An in ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 9, 2011

    Metropolitan Area Transit Riders Alliance Hopes to Fight the Metro Transit Blues

    MATRA's goals include the creation of a citizen's alliance board to give input on local bus routes.​Right now, Edward Williams Jr. is taking the bus. All around him are the signs and sounds of a ride that is not going ideally: He is late, and apologetic error messages are coming from a robotic ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 25, 2011

    Receding River Allows Amtrak to Restore Full Service to Kansas City

    Amtrak: Now free to move about Missouri.​Amtrak will restore full service between St. Louis and Kansas City beginning Wednesday. Flooding along the Missouri River forced Amtrak to reduce its runs between the two cities earlier this month after Union Pacific switched more of its freight traffic ont ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 12, 2011

    Swollen Missouri River Forces Amtrak to Reduce St. Louis to Kansas City Service

    The Union Pacific line west of Jefferson City as viewed this morning.​Flood waters along the Missouri River have forced the Union Pacific railroad to divert its freight trains to a line of track the carrier shares with Amtrak. The resulting congestion has forced the passenger train to temporarily ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 19, 2011

    Another Report Links MetroLink to Rowdy Teens in the Loop

    KMOV-TV (Channel 4) is the latest media outlet to report concerns from Delmar Loop store owners that rowdy teens are venturing into the entertainment district by way of MetroLink. The station says a MetroLink security guard told their reporter off-camera that it's "overwhelming" when as many as 60 t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 19, 2011

    St. Louis Gets New Airline Only For Pets

    What will they think of next? petairways.com​Today Lambert - St. Louis International Airport announced that Pet Airways will add the city to the 14 other destinations currently served by the airline. Pet Airways offers to ship your pet in style for fares starting as low as $99. According to the ai ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 15, 2010

    Chopper Down in West County; Missouri Highway Patrol Pilot Killed

    The crash site (blue marker) is just a mile or two from the airport.​A Missouri Highway Patrol helicopter crashed around 11 a.m. this morning in unincorporated west St. Louis County killing the pilot. He was the only person in the aircraft. No one on the ground was injured.According to reports, th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 6, 2010

    Claire McCaskill: Champion to Flight Attendants

    image via​American Airlines announced today that it would rehire 545 furloughed TWA flight attendants, and Sen. Claire McCaskill is pumped. TWA and American Airlines merged in 2001, and 2,500 flight attendants, many of them employees for the former TWA, were laid off with the right to reclaim ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 30, 2010

    The TSA Gets Put on Notice -- And Yes, Removing Your Shoes at the Airport is Idiotic

    It is high time the TSA get its comeuppance for  airport screening indignities.​On March 29, 2009, Steve Bierfeldt was detained in a small room at Lambert-St. Louis International Airport and interrogated for a half-hour by the Transportation Security Administration. Bierfeldt's ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 11, 2010

    What Are We Supposed to Do About All Those MetroLink Freeloaders?

    Tunrstiles work just fine at San Francisco's BART, but then, that's a heavy rail system​One argument wielded by Proposition A opponents of hiking the St. Louis County sales tax a half cent to restore and expand Metro transit services is that there's too many  f ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 10, 2010

    Prop A Leader: Transit Tax Must Pass or Region is in Deep Trouble

    ​Chesterfield Mayor John Nations, the man leading the charge for Proposition A campaign, spelled out the dire consequences that could befall the entire metropolitan region if the transit tax fails to get a thumbs-up from St. Louis County voters next month. "If it is defeated," warned N ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 15, 2010

    Show-Me Institute Hopes to Derail MetroLink Expansion

    Would MetroLink expansion be worth the cost, or just another, well, trainwreck?​The conservative think tank Show-Me Institute dispatched an op-ed column to local media on Friday blasting Metro's plans to expand light-rail in the region. Coincidentally (or not), Friday was also the day Metro presen ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 2, 2010

    Recalling that Near-Disastrous Flight From St. Louis to Chicago on September 28, 2007

    Should this plane have been grounded? According to a new study, more than 65,000 flights should have been over the past six years.​Since 2003, at least 65,000 U.S. airline flights should never have been permitted to leave the ground because shoddy repair work and improper maintaina ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 5, 2010

    Why Is St. Louis Not Part of the 2010 No Pants Subway Ride?

    But before answering that titular query you might be wondering, "What the heck is the no pants subway ride?"Excellent question. It's quite simple really: a group of hundreds of people (or in New York, thousands) rides the mass transit sans trousers. Confused onlookers gawk and gape and hem and haw. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 22, 2009

    MetroLink Prom This Friday Night

    ​It started last year as a joke. Two devoted MetroLink fans -- Liz Kramer and Claire Nowak-Boyd -- wanted to do something special to show their support for Proposition M, the ballot measure that would provide the light-rail system with tens of million of dollars in additional funding. Their idea? ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 11, 2009

    Video: Hive, the Latest Piece of Metro Link Art, is Dedicated at Delmar Stop

    Photo: Nick Lucchesi"Hive," the latest piece of artwork featured at a Metro stop, was dedicated last night.​ Last night at the Delmar Loop Metro stop, "Hive," a honeycomb-on-acid sculpture by Minneapolis-based artists Janet Lofquist, was dedicated to the public, although anyone who's been by the c ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 3, 2009

    Metro Restores Some Bus Services; No Changes to Metrolink

    Photo: Nick Lucchesi​The St. Louis public transit agency, Metro, today restored some of the bus service it was forced to cut March 30 due to budget shortfalls.The return of those bus lines comes as Metro takes advantage of a one-time $12 million appropriation from the state legislature. MetroLink ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 9, 2009

    Rep. Russ Carnahan Files Legislation to Aid St. Louis Transit Agency

    flickr.com/photos/stlphotobloggerU.S. Rep. Russ Carnahan (D-St. Louis) filed a bill in Congress yesterday that would allow public transit agencies such as Metro to use federal transit funding for day-to-day operating expenses. Under current law, transit systems located in areas with more than 200,00 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 17, 2009

    St. Louis to Chicago in Under Four Hours By Train

    It may be possible in the not-too-distant future. Yesterday President Barack Obama unveiled plans for a high-speed rail network throughout the United States. A Midwestern route -- with a hub based in Chicago -- could go online in 2012 connecting the Windy City with Milwaukee and Detroit. Another lin ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 4, 2009

    Reminder: Don't Drive and Drown this Month

    Wikimedia CommonsApparently people do very stupid things in March, which is why the month is home to about a dozen different prevention weeks. My favorite thus far is the following pearl I received yesterday from the State Emergency Management Agency. The department has dubbed March 16-20 as "Turn A ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 29, 2008

    More MetroLink Fallout: Post-Dispatch Editorial Board Farts in RFT's General Direction

    Wikimedia CommonsApparently people do very stupid things in March, which is why the month is home to about a dozen different prevention weeks. My favorite thus far is the following pearl I received yesterday from the State Emergency Management Agency. The department has dubbed March 16-20 as "Turn A ... More >>

  • News

    August 20, 2008

    Out-of-control shoplifting at the St. Louis Galleria. Violent attacks in the Delmar Loop. Is MetroLink a vehicle for crime?

    Wikimedia CommonsApparently people do very stupid things in March, which is why the month is home to about a dozen different prevention weeks. My favorite thus far is the following pearl I received yesterday from the State Emergency Management Agency. The department has dubbed March 16-20 as "Turn A ... More >>

  • News

    August 20, 2008

    Cover of the August 21 Print Edition

    Wikimedia CommonsApparently people do very stupid things in March, which is why the month is home to about a dozen different prevention weeks. My favorite thus far is the following pearl I received yesterday from the State Emergency Management Agency. The department has dubbed March 16-20 as "Turn A ... More >>

  • News

    August 13, 2008

    Trolley Song: A new source of funds pushes forward the plan for streetcars on Delmar Boulevard

    Wikimedia CommonsApparently people do very stupid things in March, which is why the month is home to about a dozen different prevention weeks. My favorite thus far is the following pearl I received yesterday from the State Emergency Management Agency. The department has dubbed March 16-20 as "Turn A ... More >>

  • News

    May 21, 2008

    Changing of the Guard: What derailed Metro's contract with the world's largest security firm after just 44 days?

    Wikimedia CommonsApparently people do very stupid things in March, which is why the month is home to about a dozen different prevention weeks. My favorite thus far is the following pearl I received yesterday from the State Emergency Management Agency. The department has dubbed March 16-20 as "Turn A ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 25, 2008

    St. Louis Gets a Grand Central Station (Sort Of)

    Wikimedia CommonsApparently people do very stupid things in March, which is why the month is home to about a dozen different prevention weeks. My favorite thus far is the following pearl I received yesterday from the State Emergency Management Agency. The department has dubbed March 16-20 as "Turn A ... More >>

  • Calendar

    August 1, 2007

    Takin’ It to the Streetcars

    Wikimedia CommonsApparently people do very stupid things in March, which is why the month is home to about a dozen different prevention weeks. My favorite thus far is the following pearl I received yesterday from the State Emergency Management Agency. The department has dubbed March 16-20 as "Turn A ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 11, 2006

    Tom Sullivan Takes on the Post

    Wikimedia CommonsApparently people do very stupid things in March, which is why the month is home to about a dozen different prevention weeks. My favorite thus far is the following pearl I received yesterday from the State Emergency Management Agency. The department has dubbed March 16-20 as "Turn A ... More >>

  • Best of St. Louis

    September 29, 2004

    Best Public Works Project

    MetroLink Expansion

  • News

    April 14, 2004

    Letters

    Week of April 14, 2004

  • News

    April 7, 2004

    Trolley Follies

    In the race to return streetcars to St. Louis, Lacy Clay and Joe Edwards chart two very different courses

  • Best of St. Louis

    September 24, 2003

    Best Boondoggle

    The Lambert Airport expansion

  • Best of St. Louis

    September 24, 2003

    Best Bus Route

    Garden Express

  • News

    September 10, 2003

    Tailspin

    Lambert's billion-dollar expansion hangs on a wing and a prayer: The numbers no longer add up

  • News

    April 9, 2003

    He Can't Blight City Hall

    Bridgeton Mayor Conrad Bowers fails to persuade Lambert Airport officials to buy him out

  • News

    February 5, 2003

    White-Trash Junction

    Amtrak's station was supposed to be temporary -- a quarter-century ago

  • News

    April 17, 2002

    Golden Rails

    Sure, MetroLink's expensive -- so's your Lincoln Navigator

  • News

    March 13, 2002

    If You Build It, They May Fly Elsewhere

    High-dollar airport expansion rolls on despite fewer flights, loss of TWA

  • News

    February 6, 2002

    Busywork

    Stepped-up airport security is more sizzle than steak

  • News

    August 15, 2001

    Something Has to Give

    Bi-State prepares to cut suburban routes that, by all logic, should have been packed

  • News

    July 11, 2001

    Letters

    Week of July 11, 2001

  • News

    July 4, 2001

    The Transit Authority

    Bi-State is losing riders and money. Mike McGrath, who has driven a bus for more than a year, thinks he knows what's wrong.

  • News

    January 10, 2001

    The Foggy Flight Of TWA

    The only thing St. Louis can count on is uncertainty

  • News

    May 24, 2000

    St. Louisans, Start Your Engines

    Missouri again thumbs its nose at the area's mass-transit needs

  • News

    March 1, 2000

    Gremlin on the Wing

    Why TWA keeps losing money and how Carl Icahn keeps cashing in at the airline's expense

  • News

    June 16, 1999

    You Can't Take the "Me" Out of Metrolink

    Why TWA keeps losing money and how Carl Icahn keeps cashing in at the airline's expense

  • News

    December 16, 1998

    Terminal Illness

    Twenty minutes from downtown, the $300 million MidAmerica Airport is ready and waiting for business -- any business. Trouble is, Lambert is killing its chances of attracting commercial traffic.

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