THE LOOP TROLLEY: SUCKING UP MORE GOVERNMENT FUNDING IT DOESN'T DESERVE

The Loop Trolley got $25 million from the Department of Transportation Urban Circulator Grants,

http://www.bizjournals.com/stlouis/blog/2014/03/loop-trolley-project-lands-25-million-grant.html

despite the fact that it barely meets the requirements for the funds.

http://www.fta.dot.gov/about/about_FTA_11006.html#exempt_projects

More interesting is that a lawsuit was filed against it in November, and the news articles about the grant money, do not mention this.  

https://www.stlbeacon.org/#!/content/33497/loop_trolley_status_update?coverpage=4259

http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/metro/lawsuit-seeks-to-put-the-brakes-on-loop-trolley/article_66e1a5cb-3184-5d06-85cd-52473b4c13d0.html

The lawsuit is very enlightening.  You get one vote per acre of land owned, even if you are a non-resident.  Guess who owns most of property in the Loop, and guess who had the most votes?

Property owners got to cast one vote per acre of land they owned -- giving Joe Edwards, the suit said, the most votes.   Quoted from the Beacon article, linked above.

That $25 million would  have been much better for an DOT Urban Circulator in Grand Center, from the Metrolink to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. BLVD., or as I suggested before, downtown or South Grand/ Cherokee.

The Loop Trolley, the "Folly Trolley", needs to be shutdown.

Let Saint Louis City Mayor Francis Slay, and University City Mayor Shelley Welsch, know how you feel:

https://www.mayorslay.com/

Mayor
Shelley Welsch
7141 Delmar Blvd.
(314)505-8606 (ofc.)
(314)727-6852 (hm.)
mayor@ucitymo.org