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A message from your local Annie: According to the eRecord, Washington University’s weekly electronic newspaper, they’re starting a new “safe ride home” shuttle. Cleverly titled “Campus2Home,” the shuttle will take anyone who presents their school ID from the Danforth campus to the front doorstep of their home, but only if they live in three neighborhoods close [...] We like the unexpected. We like weirdness. We like problems. We enjoy problems because they present an alternative to our common reality, they become the hallmarks and touchstones of laughter, sadness, brutality, and bliss. Yet it is those unique problems – the hiccups and lacunae that interrupt the pleasant moment or the negotiated halycon – [...] If an “A” is the best grade in school, let’s give our community a 4.0 in April. The official ballot nomenclature for the County-wide sales tax increase slated for Public Transit is “Proposition A.” Be sure to update your friends and Neighbors about the official ballot language so everyone knows what to look for on [...] The harsh reality of contemporary public transit is one paved by failed financial circumstances. In order to better understand the context in which St. Louis public transit has found itself, it is absolutely critical to wider the community ken on the national situation. Public transit systems cannot fund themselves – even systems like New York, [...] Your voice is important to saving public transit; we need you to provide your ideas and energy to ensure victory on April 6, 2010. Below are all the ways you can reach out to established groups and ways you can be an important member of the MOVE 2010 Campaign: RESTORE AND EXPAND PUBLIC TRANSIT IN ST [...] Tracking Progress believes that community transformation is predicated on the mobilization of stakeholders and residents. In order for this local human enterprise to truly succeed we depend on the time, energy, and ideas of real people living their real lives. As part of this commitment to an authentic perspective on our community we need information [...] Vilification of public transit leadership is one of the more traditional arguments against funding; opponents perceive agencies to be static enterprises in which authority remains crystallized, thus edifying the prevailing agency philosophy. Metro St. Louis, the local public transit agency, has come under intense scrutiny because of past misjudgments and inadequate leadership. The agency – [...] Tracking Progress is proud to provide a brief dictionary – albeit comprehensive in some regards – on public transit in the St. Louis area. Our team believes, perhaps presciently suspects, these (truly-fake/fakely-true) words offer both insight and perspective on the numerous metroubles that currently enervate and await local public transit advocates. Metropic: the inability to see [...] To my fellow St. Louisans: In one direction lies a new way forward; one in which public transit expands and our community prospers. In the other direction lies the past, full of the same divisions and arguments separating the county from the city for over a century. We will have our opportunity to sow seeds of [...] Individuals, activists, organization representatives, and concerned residents will be meeting up at 3:15pm on January 2, 2010 for a brainstorm session about the new county campaign to fund and restore public transit. The meeting will be held at Kayak’s Coffee and Provisions, which is just off the Skinker MetroLink, and it is also a [...] |
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