Transportation

Kirkwood Station: Leveraging Our Greatest Asset

Update: 04/01/2024: Last week, the Webster-Kirkwood Times ran a story on cyclists' frustrations that the bring-your-bike pilot program that Amtrak had advertised all winter hadn't come to fruition due to low nature of Kirkwood Station's loading platforms. I talk about the issue surrounding the platform at length in the article below and expressed my frustration… Continue reading Kirkwood Station: Leveraging Our Greatest Asset

Transportation

The Case for Commuter Rail

"Kirkwood is a train town" is a phrase often uttered. It is said in the same way that some places are called hockey towns or factory towns. And yet I would imagine that those things are much more regularly thought about, more central to life there, than trains have been to Kirkwood in a very… Continue reading The Case for Commuter Rail