My Old School

I lived by the words of the Steely Dan song for almost 32 years but in April 2005 I broke down and returned to St. Louis. That's me in front of the Graham Chapel at Washington University in St. Louis (photo by my wife).
Washington University has recently done a great thing, something that should be emulated by colleges and universities across the nation – it is providing free transit passes for faculty, staff and students. These passes are good on the entire bi-state metropolitan area system for both bus and light rail. Follow the links below to learn details of this innovative program:
http://transportation.wustl.edu/wustlmetro_chan.html
http://www.cmt-stl.org/NEW/new.html#wu
While such a program is probably fiscally and politically unworkable in old transit cities like New York, Boston, Chicago or Philadelphia, it could stimulate mass transit in the majority of US cities that allowed their transit systems to wither or, like some cities in the western US, never had them in the first place.