The St. Louis Regional Chamber invites local Business Leaders, Facility Managers, Green Team Leaders, Operations Managers, Purchasing Officers, Sustainability Officers, and City Managers to stop by their Green Products and Services EXPO on Wednesday September 25, 2013. The event will take place from 11:00 a.m.-1:30 p.m. at the Sheet Metal Workers Local 36 Training Center, … Continued
“New Online Tool Allows Customers to Check on Estimated MetroBus Arrival Times” reads the headline of Metro’s September 13, 2013 press release. The “newer” technology will help customers track bus arrival times and is the first phase of technology advances made possible by the passing of Proposition A in 2010. “‘We are really excited to … Continued
CMT has co-sponsored NPR’s MetroQuest on Saturday, September 21, 2013, and invites CMT’s young transit professionals to join our team for a day of fun and challenges while exploring our city in St. Louis Public Radio’s combination scavenger hunt, pub crawl, and trivia contest. Travel the course by foot or ride the rails St. Louis … Continued
Ten Toes Participants are invited to join CMT for a special guided tour of the Ulysses S. Grant Historic Site this Thursday, September 19 at 9 am. Walkers will meet at the Shrewsbury MetroLink station by the ticket machines. They will then take a MetroBus to Grant Road where a Park Ranger will meet the … Continued
Citizens for Modern Transit honored an individual and an organization committed to moving transit forward in the St. Louis region at its 29th Annual Meeting on September 13 in Downtown St. Louis. CMT awarded Delores Lysakowski, chair of the St. Clair County Transit District, the 2013 Service Award. Lysakowski has been with the district since … Continued
The Citizens for Modern Transit (CMT) membership unanimously elected Ann Brand, Governmental Relations Liaison at St. Louis Community College; Carlo Sanfilippo, co-owner of the The Wexford Group; Scott Schanuel, Senior Director of Marketing, Business Development, and Client Relations at Holland Construction Services; and Marguerite (Peg) Weathers, Assistant Vice President for Community Relations at St. Louis … Continued
Professor Reid Ewing introduced the audience of more than 250people to his research on Pedestrian and Transit-Oriented Design as a part of the CMT 29th Annual Meeting. His book serves as a guide for developers and planners and articulates the standards for pedestrian and transit oriented planning. Professor Ewing was kind enough to share his … Continued
Citizens for Modern Transit capped off the 29th Annual Meeting with the release of the 2013 Annual Report . Attendees received copies which highlight some of the successes of CMT in FY13: CMT successfully secured four grant awards this year bringing more than $1.1 million in federal funding to the St. Louis region to promote transit and increase … Continued
Transit-oriented development (TOD) offers a mix of housing, employment, shopping, and transportation choices that can help reduce air pollution and development on open lands and improve water quality and access to jobs. Yet the infrastructure required to create TOD is expensive and funding for infrastructure for new TOD can be difficult to obtain. This webinar, … Continued
Philadelphia has caught the transit bug. A new report called “How Philadelphia Gets to Work” finds that 70.5% of Philadelphians get to work using transit. The report, released by the Center City District and Central Philadelphia Development Corporation, was prepared to inform strategic investments in transportation infrastructure based on the understanding that: “Sustained job and … Continued
As you have read and heard, Metro is in the final stages of the Rapid Connector Study they’ve been running over the past year. They have narrowed their study focus to BRT routes along 4 corridors through the St. Louis region. Metro is only able to pursue financing for 2 of the routes, and are … Continued
Just one more reason Transit needs to be a top priority for the State of Missouri. Missouri remains a state with some of the highest miles traveled per capita as evidenced in the table below. Currently, public transit receives a very small percentage of funding from the state of MO. This year, $560,000 was appropriated … Continued
The U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) recently announced the award of $474 million in TIGER grants to 52 projects in 37 states. This year there were 585 applications requesting more than $9 billion in funding. In total, the program, in its fifth year of awards, has provided more than $3.6 billion to 270 projects. Kansas … Continued
Citizens for Modern Transit is pleased to announce that Reid Ewing will be the featured Keynote at the CMT Annual Meeting & Awards Ceremony on Sept. 13. Professor Ewing will present on the research for his new book, Pedestrian and Transit Oriented Design. Professor Ewing is a Professor of City and Metropolitan Planning at the … Continued
There has been buzz about bringing smartcards to the St. Louis’s Metro system, and this week Metro rolls out new fareboxes that would make smartcards a possibility for the future. The new fareboxes are the first step in that direction. Metro explains that “the new fareboxes will replace old fare equipment that is becoming expensive … Continued