A bus stop on each block is a reasonable especially when the blocks are really long like many in StL.
I don't see the removals on my most frequented route, the #1, making any material difference.
Can't help but think and assume a lot of people do that St Louis City is ideally setup for some BRT routes with the metrolink running east west down the central corridor, spine of the city. Grand Ave BRT being the obvious choice. Jeff Ave if you could somehow get a metrolink station in closer proximity, or even look at riverfront BRT utilizing Broadway. A Gravios route for South City into downtown might be betta choice than broadway
In the meantime, time for city to pursue low floor modern street car for NGA/near northside - downtown - near south side . Think KC, make it free,
I looked over the Metro Reimagined map again and it looks like a lot of people who rely on the current #8 could be really screwed. Nothing would run along Russell or Morganford or through Holly Hills, so anyone who relies on that one would need to walk up to an extra half mile to get to a new stop. Southside coverage looks pretty sparse.
we need a lot of nudges:
Urban Nudges is a site that documents small efforts by cities and the people who live in them to slightly change the behaviors of their inhabitants in some way. A 2008 book by Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein defines a nudge as “any aspect of the choice architecture that alters people’s behavior in a predictable way without forbidding any options or significantly changing their economic incentives”. http://www.urbannudges.com/blog
I spotted one of the trains in the new livery this morning. Blue lower part and white upper part with the red dot on the front of the train and the off-center m-which-is-also-STL inside the red dot. Very fetching!
I'm not 100% certain that's a new paint scheme. They've had a few oddballs floating around over the years, at least one of which was solid blue upper , red stripe, white lower. (They also had a solid red upper white lower.) I don't have the clearest pictures, but . . . I do have photos.
It's not terribly clear, but if you amp up the saturation or take samples it becomes fairly clear it's blue. Mind you, even if this was the scheme you saw (and I could well be wrong) they still would have had to patch the emblem on the nose. That said, the general blue and white idea isn't entirely new at least. This was from early 2018. Here's the red one from 2016 . . .
I'd wait until next Monday (Sept 30th) to see what Metro officially unveils. Supposedly, its going to a big change to the paint scheme currently being used now on their buses and trains.
I was kind of hoping they'd shift to something besides red, white, and blue.
I also happen to like the current M, especially the 3D version of it. However, in a few years, the STL/ M logo with be much more loved.
Looks like Metro is going blue for trains, not sure about the color for the buses. Maybe it'll be blue or maybe it'll be like what KCATA did when they rebranded to RideKC and painted their buses to blue and red colors.
Also that white STL/M logo it seems is the logo we saw in an earlier post.
aprice wrote:SP, are you talking about the black tops? Because about half of the cars are that way. I've definitely never seen a blue top.
Yeah I've seen several black tops around, but never a blue top unless the car was wrapped in an advertisement. The red train in that image above just looks like a car wrapped in an AARP ad.
I was hoping they'd get away from red, white and blue as well, and they have! At least for the trains. They're BLUE. With a red dot on the front. Can't wait to see these everywhere.
That AARP wrap looks great, like a San Diego train. The purple google wrap looked great. Almost ANY solid color looks better than white with timid red and blue stripes here and there.
I suppose it probably was black reflecting a predawn blue sky, or blue light, or something like that. It was still quite dark. And yes, the red car could be a wrap. They've done that often enough and for a bunch of different things. Can't really recall either, but now that you mention the black tops that sounds right. Just . . . memory paints things funny and color gets wonky anyway.
It looks quite nice on the train. I am interested to see how this paint scheme will look on the buses. It'll definitely be a different change to what is used now (the current paint scheme dates back to 2003 when Bi-State renamed the system to Metro). This blue paint scheme looks kinda like what RideKC uses IMO.
