Hashed out Economic Stimulus Bill Spells Trouble for Transit

This is bad news for St. Louis, which is situated in Missouri, which simply never funded transit to begin with.

The announcement that highway construction--not maintenance!--will outfund transit 3:1 is bad news all around.

But it's worse news in a city whose transit agency is already perilously cash-strapped. Any stimulus bill should recognize the difficulty of funding inter-urban transit and should reallocate funding towards this end.

Please, write to Claire McCaskill and let her know you're a supporter of transit who doesn't need another highway!

To demonstrate your point, show her an aerial of the I-44/I-55/Tucker interchange so that she can see exactly what interstates have done to cities and why they don't deserve the money!