BRAND NEW BIG BUSES FOR THE 4, 64, AND 70, BUT WHAT ABOUT SMALLER BUSES?

Ah Metro, you are so perfectly designed to suck up federal money, sales tax, and rider revenues, without having to do any real work to make St. Louis Public Transportation viable for the people that depend on you!

You complain that you cannot operate without a 5% increase in fares every two years (without offering any substantial budget and operating costs for public audit).  You blame this on "inflation" (shouldn't that increase your ridership?), and also on diesel fuel costs.

Congratulations on the new bigger buses for your busiest lines! A Metrolink train would have been much nicer, but okay.  In St. Louis, we just have to take what we can get, right?

Hey now, what about all the buses that drive around mostly empty?!!!!!
Have you explored smaller van-type buses or shuttles?  
How many miles per gallon for the regular-size bus?  
How many transit passengers, using what fare structure, do these buses need to operate?  
Have you been monitoring lesser ridden routes to see if smaller vehicles would save you money?

Do I need to name some lines?  Okay, I will name two of them. The #14 (from the CWE station through the Shaw and Hill neighborhoods) and the #57.  I'll add more as I think of them.