Adella Jones of Metro stops by Collateral Damage to discuss the public transit agency’s long range plan that could include bus rapid transit, light rail and commuter rail in the St. Louis region in the decades to come. If Proposition A on the St. Louis County ballot gets majority approval by voters on Tuesday, April 6th, it would raise the county sales tax one-half cent on the dollar. That money, along with a previously approved quarter-cent sales tax in the city that would be triggered contingent on the passage of Proposition A, would restore most of the cuts in service that happened last year when a similar sales tax proposal failed to pass in St. Louis County. If Proposition A fails, the federal stimulus dollars awarded Metro to restore the service cuts will run out in May and the system will shrink once again.

Photo of Metrolink train in the Central West End courtesy of BotMultichill via Wikimedia Commons.