Interesting is noting how St. Louis has better intermodal rail connections to the Port of Houston than both Kansas City and Chicago. They likely are also doing this due to Panama Canal expansion and the labor issues on west coast ports.dredger wrote:^ Wasn't their also a HSR grant application for the bridge a few years back. I believe some preliminary engineering funding was approved but lost out on the full grant application. Can't recall the details but believe it was to put the bridge back in a state of good repair such that the bridge would support two trains on the same time again. From the article, sounds like they are looking at a replacement all together.
On a different note concerning intermodal gateway, Port of Houston I believe is another round of expansion of its Bayport Container terminal including 1,000 lf dock expansion and recent widening of its bayport channel and turning basin. Problem is that most gulf ports including Houston don't have the plus 50' of draft that LA/Long Beach & Oakland have to support the monster container ships. Believe Long Beach is looking at going to 80' deep draft channel to support its newest container terminal.
Just to be clear, the cost also includes the approximately 1-mile extension itself.wabash wrote: Shockingly, this single new station cost $2.4 billion,
I used to be a frequent rider of that bus route, and I have to say, it was nearly always empty. Almost all the college students use the 21 Watson(which also departs out of Shrewsbury and normally arrives earlier than the 56) and there are not that many Webster students that use it. The people that live along the 56's route are simply not the sort of people that use Metro, and it doesn't really link to any major employers, so I really don't see a need to expand it's service.MarkHaversham wrote:I was wondering about something, specifically the #56 bus route from Meramec CC to Shrewsbury. This route travels alternately through semi-dense residential and compact downtown business districts, and connects to MetroLink. Would it be feasible to make a bus like this run every 10-15 minutes, so that people might actually use it? Would people use it?
I feel like if ever a bus route could be made to work in non-poverty suburban StL, it would look a bit like this one.
http://www.chesterfieldlifestyle.com/20 ... sterfield/“Public transit to me was always an essential element of the economic and job growth strategy out here,” Nations says.
I also think there is a function of American social values at work too that sees urbanism and mass transit as something foreign and against what they think America should be.MarkHaversham wrote:I'd blame racism/classism, moreso. To the extent we're spread out, it's because the city is where the poor dangerous people live. And transit is seen as a welfare program rather than a vital infrastructure project.
http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/govt ... 9345a.htmlAn advocate urged Missouri state legislators on Monday to explore an overhaul of the way the state spends transportation dollars, with an eye on giving more of them to St. Louis and other urban areas.
http://bikeportland.org/2015/10/23/odot ... ays-166636Apparently this is what happens when an elected official doesn’t have to play nice any more.
How so? I think the strongest argument for smaller government/less taxes is "Joke's on you Democrats. Thanks to Thomas Jefferson and compromise with the Southern States our entire government system of Republican Democracy is designed to over-represent rural interests. So if there's Big Government paid for disproportionately by Urban areas, it's going to disproportionately benefit rural voters.MarkHaversham wrote:It seems like this stuff would drive people away from the Norquist camp, not towards it.
