All posts by Herbie Markwort

I like to write about transportation.

BJC-CORTEX Monorail!

The recent request for proposals sent out by the St. Louis Development Corporation mentioned the possibility of a people mover(!) running east-west from Boyle to Euclid. Since a single sentence is the extent of knowledge about why BJC is considering...

/ 11 November 2011

What May Have Been: Stadium MetroLink Station

This drawing of the Stadium MetroLink station is from the 1987 Metro Link Final Environmental Impact Statement. Obviously, plans for the station were changed prior to construction. The drawing shows 4 tracks and three platforms at the station. The southern/lower...

/ 10 November 2011

CORTEX Splitting the MetroLink Difference

The St. Louis Development Corporation recently issued a request for proposals. To help the fledging CORTEX district reach its potential as it enters phase 2 of its development, the SLDC is seeking consulting services to examine the potential for transit-oriented...

/ 9 November 2011

Stagnant State Gas Tax Contributing to MoDOT’s Funding Woes

It’s been a few months since MoDOT announced that it has been forced to layoff and curtail a large portion of its operations. Whereas in recent years MoDOT had been living large spending $900 million to $1.2 billion a year,...

/ 28 October 2011

Kirkwood May Demolish Two Buildings for Additional Parking

What is the price of parking in downtown neighborhoods? That is the question the Kirkwood City Council will tackle at its meeting tonight at Kirkwood City Hall. At issue is a perceived lack of parking in downtown Kirkwood and its...

/ 6 October 2011

MoDOT Set to Build Tower Grove/I-64 Interchange

MoDOT is getting ready to begin major work on I-64 between Kingshighway and Sarah. The project is essentially a continuation of the I-64 rebuild that closed segments of the highway between Spoede and Kingshighway in 2008 and 2009. Environmental studies...

/ 23 September 2011

A Voice for All Transit Riders in St. Louis

Today, on the 62th anniversary of the formation of the Bi-State Development Agency, we are pleased to announce the formation of the Transit Riders Union of St. Louis (TRUSTL) which will fight for the public transit needs of the citizens...

/ 20 September 2011

Metro Looks for New Downtown Transit Hub

The Civic Center Transit Center is overcrowded. According to Metro, the limited space at Civic Center forces many buses to stop on-street and is responsible for many poorly timed connections. To remedy the capacity issue, Metro is considering either: expanding...

/ 29 August 2011

Support City to River, Send Comments to National Park Service ASAP

The scoping process is the most important step in any environmental study. Project scopes are often created with specific ideas in mind and shape the alternatives that are created and considered later on in the process. If an idea does...

/ 18 August 2011

Metro Responds

Metro responded via Facebook to my recent post concerning the lack of bus service downtown. The Facebook note in its entirety: Metro instituted the Downtown Trolley during service restoration to serve the destinations east of 14th street by bus. The...

/ 15 August 2011

Missing: Local Bus Service in Downtown St. Louis

In a very short post on my Gateway Streets blog yesterday, I posed a very simple question. From just about anywhere in the St. Louis region, “will this bus take me to downtown St. Louis”? The answer, as I so...

/ 11 August 2011