Transportation

The city is updating the nine-mile thoroughfare top-to-bottom, part of a multi-year effort to make the city’s major roads safer using $46 million in pandemic relief funds

The plan is set to be adopted in September or October. It focuses on road safety, street and sidewalk maintenance and other issues brought up by community members.

The annual conference brings together experts from the transportation industry to collaborate on growing the shipping industry.

St. Louis Public Schools has named Kacy Davis as its new head of transportation after the previous director, Toyin Akinola, retired in October. The district will implement a new policy to require all parents of current SLPS students to re-enroll their children for the next school year.

Metro Transit has hired 100 new bus drivers in the past year as it works to expand service and restore routes that were cut after the pandemic.

Proposition B would have allowed aldermen to increase budget line items without the approval of the Board of Estimate and Apportionment, a fiscal oversight board.

Leviticus McNeal is the new assistant director of transportation for St. Louis Public Schools. His hiring comes as the district cut ties with a transportation vendor who did not comply with safety standards.

St. Louis Public Schools’ acting Superintendent Millicent Borishade has inherited a long list of urgent issues to address. They include transportation concerns about vendor vans having expired license plates and other safety issues, student enrollment and district hiring practices.

District officials revised their transportation system earlier this week, providing yellow buses for nearly 1,000 additional students.

SLPS Chief Operations Officer Square Watson said they would meet with transportation vendors on Friday about safety protocols after several public complaints arose about vendors running red lights and kids arriving late to school.