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Visited Washington DC for a week (which made me wonder why the heck I'm living and working in stl... seriously).

A long wait for a metro/subway line there is 5 minutes, and their 4 lines go all over the city. I waited 16 minutes for the metro at Forest Park last night coming home from the airport. Pathetic. Pick it up stl.

I think we all know that the public transportion in STL sucks. I don't even bother.

JCShutout wrote:Visited Washington DC for a week (which made me wonder why the heck I'm living and working in stl... seriously).

A long wait for a metro/subway line there is 5 minutes, and their 4 lines go all over the city. I waited 16 minutes for the metro at Forest Park last night coming home from the airport. Pathetic. Pick it up stl.

Hey, the county and St. Charles have voted down tax increases for metro and expanding metro into the county numerous times.

Hopefully with the gas situation, they will wise up.

TimeForGuinness wrote:Hey, the county and St. Charles have voted down tax increases for metro and expanding metro into the county numerous times.

Hopefully with the gas situation, they will wise up.

Yeah, I knew before that it should be expanded and such, but only after being in DC did I realize how incredibly convenient a comprehensive metro/subway is, and how incredibly bad ours is. Night and day. Just wow.

If I lived in DC and paid $60/month (what one friend pays) for metro use and did not have a car, I could afford to pay $650-$700 more per month on rent/beer. Plus you're forced to walk more, which makes the 90,000 cuties my age in good shape.

... anyone in DC want to offer me a job? Seriously...

Oh, and stop being tools, suburbs. Bring in teh metro!

Even if they did can you imagine how long that project would take?

cardinalkarp wrote:Even if they did can you imagine how long that project would take?

Well I've always thought that you should be building 3-4 lines at the same time...build to the next stop, then open that stop. That way you're generating money while still building out the rest of the line. Over 5-10 years, you have 3 new lines.

With two states involved, we should be at least building 2 new lines at the same time in Missouri and Illinois.

TimeForGuinness wrote:

cardinalkarp wrote:Even if they did can you imagine how long that project would take?

Well I've always thought that you should be building 3-4 lines at the same time...build to the next stop, then open that stop. That way you're generating money while still building out the rest of the line. Over 5-10 years, you have 3 new lines.

With two states involved, we should be at least building 2 new lines at the same time in Missouri and Illinois.

That's a good point. Is that how they did it previously?

People in the county don't want a train running through the backyard of their $300,000+ houses.

Not saying their right, just saying that's part of it.

tothebeach08 wrote:People in the county don't want a train running through the backyard of their $300,000+ houses.

Not saying their right, just saying that's part of it.

Not many 300k houses are planted right next to the hwy which in most cases would be where the metro would run.

cardinalkarp wrote:

tothebeach08 wrote:People in the county don't want a train running through the backyard of their $300,000+ houses.

Not saying their right, just saying that's part of it.

Not many 300k houses are planted right next to the hwy which in most cases would be where the metro would run.

Yes there are, everywhere.