I got about a paragraph in before this joker said the whole reason they don’t support it is cost.
Cars are also wildly expensive, it’s just the government isn’t paying for those, it’s an externalized cost that we each pay which, if redirected toward public transit, could be substantially reduced. But they say there’s no value in this expense over running buses… except capacity, speed due to dedicated lines, and fuel consumption, you know.
I bet this person owns stock in automaker or gas companies.
If you read my comment you’ll see I did read the whole thing.
Busses are less efficient than trains no matter how you slice it. They sit in traffic just like cars, typically use gas or will need to sit and charge forever between uses, and can only hold x small number of people. With light rail, it can be electric much more easily, carry a ton more passengers, and uses dedicated tracks to avoid the congestion of traffic.
Even being electric, if the point is for public transit to replace personal transport, a bus will never be more desirable for most people in most places. They are slower than cars because they stop places but obey the same laws as a car going from a-b.
But I got to ride a subway when I went to Boston (I’m from a rural bus area that would greatly benefit from a local daily rail system since the rails are already run for industry) and it was so fucking amazing to just have a set of destinations I could get off and do stuff, and then get back on if it sucked and keep going.
Busses take forever to go the same distance. They will never come close, and are only good in small areas that don’t plan to expand. Cities would do better to plan for the future with light rail, even if it is a bigger upfront expense, because the long term maintenance and environmental savings (including externalized; other people in traffic etc) are worth it.
Agreed; this is better than tearing it down (if only to preserve the care and craftsmanship of the building itself). I feel like the space is screaming to be a community center of some kind.
All your OBD2 monitors should pass if everything is working on your car. Usually a couple of drive cycles will do it. The car needs to go cold to operating temp a couple times. Mixed driving will do fine.
My concern with it is how far away it is from amything. it’s an hour by bus to the nearest library (which a lot of unhoused/poor people rely on for various services) and a 30 minute ride to the closest groceries (Save A Lot). I don’t think it’s very close to any social services either.
I’m not fully against because more housing is good, but I wish it was a more holistic approach. Maybe they’ll include some on premise services tho.
I’m happy we’re getting funding for more investment in the city, but the cynic in me worries the money will just be offsetting other things rather than adding more improvements beyond what we’d already be doing. Or that it will go to Ameren and Spire to fix our energy infrastructure (that they should be doing anyway), but even with funding they’ll find an excuse to raise rates.
When I first moved to STL it was the only Target and Ulta that I knew of so I was there a lot getting stuff for my new place. Now that I’ve been here a while I know better and avoid it unless I’m going to Microcenter. It really is a microcosm of hell.
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