Metro, the public transit division of the Bi-State Development Agency, wants to spend hundreds of millions of dollars building 5.5 miles of street-running light-rail lines north and south of the city’s center. This report lists the ways in which the proposal under consideration is unlikely to fulfil the promises of its backers, documents the poor performance of St. Louis’s current light-rail system, and considers other, more effective and cost-efficient ways that Metro might provide faster, safer service to commuters in the area.
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