Now since the nasty weather is here, the best thing to do is to shift your transmission to your lower gears rather than direct drive due to that you should have better traction.  And remember, use your lights each time you use your wipers.  See and be seen!  Driving in incliment weather with your brain off is a very dangerous thing to do and can be deadly!  Stay off your cell phone, and keep your stereo at a low level.  Driving in incliment weather is never a good time to have distractions going on while driving.  If your car has an electric defroster built in, let your car sit idle until the defroster does it's job!

OK....SO WHERES THE LIGHT AT HAMPTON/OAKLAND?Its a pain in the booty in the morning especially sitting there for umpteen cars to turn LEFT....there IS a hospital there.............and the intersections further down ...right before Skinker on Oakland ....dang this is a pain!!!!!to turn right onto Skinker...........I really dread when the snow flies...............its going to be a messy mess....cause we cant get around on the side streets filled with snow.........so whats the scoop?

thank youuuuuuuuuu

The sectioin of highway 40 opens up between Ballas Road and Brentwood Blvd. on December 15th of this year.  The eastern half shuts down on January 2nd.  Metro to no avail has chosen to keep lots of stuff secret when it comes to posting service changes.  And stuff like this was one of the things that cost them the tax increase proposal.  On Sunday, MODOT is opening the highway to bicycles and pedestrians before they let cars take over.  The two things I think that MODOT did that was stupid was that they lied about possible pedestiran/bicycle access to the highway in some spots such as bike lanes, and they also had the opening date to be set on a Sunday when people use that day to go to church.  MODOT could have picked a Saturday.

I work in a downtown St. Louis office building that has access to a parking garage that you enter through a gerbil tube from the office building! It's right across from the ballpark! I've only been using the parking garage for the past two weeks, and for the past two weeks I've been amazed I lived long enough to exit the garage alive, or been able to get on highway 70 alive and well!!! The people that work in the adjoining building and park in the garage are the most rude, the most selfish, careless and thoughtless people I've run across in a very long time, if not ever! They will literally run you down in their effort to exit the garage ahead of everyone else. Absolutely no patience, non caring, and could care less for your life, limb, much less your car/truck. They swerve around the corners regardless of who is walking in the near vacinity, they drive like they are crazed down and around the ramps! They run headlong into the exit lanes and woe be unto you if you get in their way. I am surprised that accidents are not taking place on a daily basis, and when one does happen, these people couldn't give a hoot for your life. Another thing that totally dumfounds me is the fact that most of these dimwits are young females!!! They literally dare you to get in their way, and if you do you will be taking your life in your own hands because these people don't have a care in the world about how rude and ignorant they act. It never occurs to them that everyone else in that gargage has the desire to get home, just like they do. It never occurs to them that a little thing like a bit of old fashioned courtesy would work wonders, and make people think better of them. They care about one thing only, themselves!!!

I am disappointed daily about how rude and uncaring the people in our area are. I don't care if you have a Missouri plate or an Illinois plate, rude is rude, and thoughless is thoughtless. Everyone talks about how bad the drivers are in Missouri if you live in Illinois, and everyone talks about how bad the drivers are in Illinois if they live in Missouri. Illinois drivers will drive fairly well until they hit the Missouri border then they take off like they are shot out of a cannon and become destructive drivers. You have to drive completely in a defensive mode now because it isn't safe anywhere, and its pretty sad when its just as bad inside a garage where people should use some intelligence about getting into, parking, and then leaving that garage, and how they conduct themselves out on the street or highway. They think the road is strictly for their own use, and exiting a garage is only for them. But I have news for you - you are the rude, ignorant ones that will end up killing someone one of these days that wasn't ready to die, and then what will you do? I know, you'll blame the victim for just being there when you were trying to get some place! You will consider it their fault, not yours, because after all, you own the road, and all other places where people drive, right?

Am I the only one that has noticed this going on? What's it like when you try to get back and forth to work or in and out of your parking area? Me? I'm lucky I lived through to another day!!!!

There are some things that Metro has done that got the public mad at them.  When it comes to building a line, you have to hire a firm that WILL do the work such as design of the route, finding out utility lines and how they are routed, know your environmental areas such as former landfills, etc.  The company that you hire cannot be one that sits on their can and does nothing.  Plus with the Call-a-Ride, you have to look at the vans to see what kind of weight they can handle before you go out and buy them.  And the Fords didn't have the weight requirement is needed to meet today's standards.  I told Metro about this before and they didn't listen until Elliot Davis' 'You Paid for It" saga got them to change.  There were times that I had to put up with sheer nonsence in my 16 years of volunteerism at Metro.  I did see in a set of slides on Metro's "2009-The Road ahead" page that some top officials will be getting cut.  Well, for cramming lots of cash into their pockets and not using the extra sales tax dollars for future expansions, well now those top officals are going to learn their fate, effective this spring.  Same with some of the planning and scheduling department's employees.  Those employees blew it for everybody!

Well, there are some service cutting options that Metro has put into place because the voters choose to vote it down.  They are even talking of cutting weekend service.  People said that there were to be no service cuts if Prop M failed.  Well the truth stands on this website;

http://www.metrostlouis.org/ImportantInfo/important
Info.asp?recNum=2

Those senior citizens that I wanted to have service available will be short changed because of the voter turning out in a negative way.  Those people who voted it down sure have ruined it for people with disabilties!  They listened to the lies of the people that were against MetroLink. 

       What good does it do to have all these fancy transfer centers and nice parking garages and all this abstract artwork if you dont have any buses or trains going to them?

            Metro keep with the business at hand. Buses and trains are where the rubber meets the road, I suggest instead of cutting service that you cut out all the other b.s.

Looking for your thoughts on the defeat of Proposition M. It would have provided more tax money for Metro to expand service for Metrolink and Bus service.

Metro is saying now they'll have to cut back service, going to have to do layoffs...even eliminating routes at night in some places.

I heard a couple of comments on the radio this morning, one person said, "Why should my taxes have to pay for someone to get to work? I pay for my own car"

Another person said, "Lower income people rely on this service. It culd lead to more unemployment and loss of jobs.

What are your thoughts?