Will St. Louis ever be as easy to navigate by train as New York City?
You have to build a network. We started with a single line, then Illinois built a line—when I got here, it was a 37-mile line. Metro’s trains average 33 to 35 miles an hour; New York’s go as fast as 80 miles per hour. Metro has two-car trains that run every 10 minutes; New York has 10-car trains that run every two minutes. So what’s wrong with us? There are two kinds of cities in America. New York, Chicago, Boston—their infrastructure was in place long before the auto became dominant. When suburbanization came, they developed commuter railroads on top of rail systems. The Detroits and St. Louises got rid of their streetcars—and with that came the weakening of the urban core, as it started to depopulate. But we’re as old as those pre-auto cities! You are, except that you gave away all your streetcars. You have at least two generations here who have not experienced any form of public transportation. So we have a line and a branch. What’s next? Ideally, Kingshighway or Grand would be a gr
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