Last month, Citizens for Modern Transit released an economic impact study for the Green Line, the proposed 5.6-mile north-south expansion of the MetroLink light rail system. Its headline finding is that building the Green Line will have an overall “economic impact” of $2.9 billion.

The Forest Park–DeBaliviere MetroLink station has been problematic recently. A woman was shot and killed there on May 11th, followed by another shooting the following weekend. Local news articles quote concerned residents and commuters who are hesitant to use MetroLink in the future.

Earlier this year, YouTuber Ray Delahanty (“CityNerd”) asked how it’s possible for one to be an urbanist and a Republican:

It’s impossible to describe St. Louis, the city with the world’s seventh highest homicide rate (~88 per 100k), as a “high trust” community. Even though I live well outside the high-risk neighborhoods, I’ve found the entire experience of living in STL is colored by its crime rate. There is no escaping the second- and third-order effects of low social trust.