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Metro Bus Schedule Severely Affected By Storm Damage
ST. LOUIS (KMOX) – Due to storm damage at Lambert St. Louis International Airport, MetroLink service to the airport remains suspended until further notice. Westbound trains are stopping at the Hanley...
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Hancock & Kelley – Friday, June 3rd
John talks with St. Louis Metropolitan Sewer District Spokesman Lance Lecomb about the MSD’s agreement on billions to end lawsuit. Hancock & Kellely The Supreme Court rules on a case dealing with...
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St. Louis Co. Councilman Suggests Stripping $6 Million from Metro
ST. LOUIS (KMOX) - Metro transit is threatened with a $6 million cut in funding, by a St. Louis County Council member upset about a controversial parking garage deal. It’s the time of year when the...
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Mark Reardon: City Sales Tax, ObamaCare & Education
John Nations, Metro’s President and CEO, joins Mark in studio to discuss a possible boost in the St. Louis City sales tax to benefit the Metro transit agency. The Mark Reardon Show Jeff Rainford, Mayor...
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After The Day’s Storm, An Evening Of Work And Waiting
ST. LOUIS (KMOX) – The wintry mix that hit St. Louis and surrounding areas Thursday took few by surprise but left crews on both sides of the Mississippi scrambling to clear roads and runways as city...
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St. Louis County Will Loan $400 M To Metro Transit
CLAYTON, MO (KMOX) - Metro Transit is preparing to write a large check to pay off a big amount of debt. There is $400 million that St. Louis County has collected from the Proposition A transit sales...
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Metro Transit Union Says No Strike 4th of July Week
ST. LOUIS–(KMOX)–The transit union representing drivers for Metro buses and Metrolink trains says it has no plans to strike over the 4th of July week. Amalgamated Transit Union Local 788 Representative...
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Metro, Transit Union to Resume Talks This Week
ST. LOUIS (KMOX) - They haven’t had a contract in four years and they’ve agreed to different recommendations from a mediator but as talks between Metro and its largest union are set to resume...
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Fight Aboard MetroLink Train Raises Questions About Security
ST. LOUIS (KMOX) - A fistfight on a MetroLink train frightened passengers and raises questions about security. It happened Friday afternoon on an eastbound Metrolink. Passenger David Bill witnessed the...
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Metro President Lobbies for Increased Federal Funding for Public Transit
WASHINGTON, D.C. (KMOX) - Public transportation officials are finally getting what they’ve long been pushing for—increased ridership. Now, they’ve got to find a way to pay for it. Metro president and...
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Metro Bus Drivers Back to Work
ST. LOUIS (KMOX) - Metro bus drivers reported to work on time this morning and officials with the transit company say everything is running smoothly. That wasn’t the case yesterday, when riders were...
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Groups Tout Pedestrian, Biker Safety as Temperatures Rise
ST. LOUIS (KMOX) - Two years ago Alison Kinderfather’s elderly mother was taking a walk when she was hit by a car at Elm and Big Bend. Dr. Kathleen Kinderfather survived, but spent two months in the...
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Metro’s ‘Bendy’ Buses Hit the Road
ST. LOUIS (KMOX) - No more getting stranded road-side—officials with Metro says that’s the idea behind a fleet of larger buses that roll out next week. Metro president John Nations says each...
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Fair St. Louis Embracing Forest Park Fit
ST. LOUIS (KMOX) - The transition of Fair St. Louis from the riverfront to Forest Park while the Arch grounds are being renovated hasn’t been easy, but it’s being celebrated as a success. Speaking...
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Metro Workers Take Their Contract Quest To Commuters
ST. LOUIS (KMOX) - Union workers at Metro, the local transit agency, are meeting and greeting commuters this morning to call attention to their quest for a new contract. Members of the Amalgamated...
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Metro CEO Reacts to Allegations of Race Baiting During Oreo Cookie Incident
ST. LOUIS (KMOX) - You may have heard the commercials from the Amalgamated Transit Union criticizing a Metro board member for handing out a recipe for Oreo cookies to union negotiators. The commercial...
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Metro Transit’s Old Laclede’s Landing Building Could Turn Residential
ST. LOUIS (KMOX) – Metro Transit is leaving its 117-year-old building on Laclede’s Landing, opening it up for possible conversion into residential space. Metro’s parent, the Bi-State Development...
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Metro Working on Increasing Safety for Riders
ST. LOUIS (KMOX) – The arrival of warmer weather and Cardinals baseball means more people riding Metro trains and buses. During a lengthy executive session at its latest meeting at its Laclede’s...
View ArticleMetrolink Shooting Raises Questions of Increased Security
ST. LOUIS (KMOX) – Metrolink riders are beginning to grow wary after an innocent bystander at the Busch Stadium Metrolink platform was shot in the head from a gun fired inside a train and hospitalized...
View ArticleHead of Metro: Number of Free-Riders Less Than 8 Percent
ST. LOUIS (KMOX) – The head of Metro is strongly denying St. Louis Police Chief Sam Dotson’s statement that 75 percent of MetroLink riders are riding for free. Chief Dotson told KMOX that MetroLink...
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Nations Defends Security Guards on MetroLink
ST. LOUIS (KMOX) – MetroLink’s top executive is denying allegations he’s trying to make police officers out of his security guards, in violation of state law. John Nations, the President and CEO of...
View ArticleBi-State Board OKs MetroLink Policing Plan
ST. LOUIS (KMOX) – Another step has been taken in the effort to make MetroLink safer. The Bi-State Development Agency Board of Directors, in an emergency meeting Friday morning, unanimously approved a...
View ArticleMetroLink Commissioner Faces Off With County Executive on Metro Security
ST. LOUIS (KMOX) – They agree not enough is being done to secure MetroLink, but that’s about all they agree on. Former St. Louis mayor Vince Schoemehl, who heads MetroLink’s Security Commission, says...
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