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St. Louis eyes MetroLink expansion even as bus service contracts

St. Louis on the Air

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Light Rail vs Bus Service - Is There a Philosophy?

Some places have invested creatively in bus service to make it speedy and equivalent to light rail, using cugil dollars. Some would hold the belief that a local operator should have a balance budget. So there are some reasons light rail becomes maybe more attractive to politicians than for the population that truly needs it. Within the meto boundary, 61 % rail commuters are identified as white, and forty percent people of color.

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