WEBVTT 00:24.098 --> 00:25.066 >> Announcer: DONNYBROOK IS MADE 00:25.133 --> 00:25.700 POSSIBLE BY THE SUPPORT OF THE 00:25.767 --> 00:27.235 BETSY AND THOMAS PATTERSON 00:27.302 --> 00:28.303 FOUNDATION AND THE MEMBERS OF 00:28.369 --> 00:33.942 NINE PBS. 00:34.009 --> 00:35.644 >> HEY, THANKS FOR JOINING US 00:35.711 --> 00:37.212 FOR THIS EDITION OF DONNYBROOK. 00:37.279 --> 00:38.747 GREAT TO HAVE YOU WITH US AND A 00:38.814 --> 00:41.317 LOT OF HOT TOPICS IN THIS MID 00:41.383 --> 00:41.950 JULY EDITION. 00:42.017 --> 00:44.019 BUT AFTER THAT, WE'RE GOING TO 00:44.086 --> 00:47.856 TALK TO TWO INDIVIDUALS WHO 00:47.923 --> 00:50.659 THINK THAT MAKING A WALKABLE, 00:50.726 --> 00:51.827 BIKEABLE ST. LOUIS WILL REALLY 00:51.894 --> 00:53.028 YIELD ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT. 00:53.095 --> 00:55.431 WE'LL TALK TO CINDY MENSE OF 00:55.497 --> 00:56.965 TRAILNET AND SARAH ARNOSKY, VICE 00:57.032 --> 00:58.000 PRESIDENT AT GREATER ST. LOUIS 00:58.067 --> 00:58.534 INC. 00:58.600 --> 00:59.401 BUT FIRST LET'S DISCUSS THE 00:59.468 --> 01:01.003 ISSUES WITH OUR PANEL. 01:01.070 --> 01:02.738 LET'S MEET THEM. 01:02.805 --> 01:04.139 WENDY WIESE IS THE NEWS DIRECTOR 01:04.206 --> 01:05.941 FOR THE BIG 550 KTRS. 01:06.008 --> 01:07.776 ALSO THE COHOST OF THE JENNIFER 01:07.843 --> 01:09.345 AND WENDY SHOW. 01:09.411 --> 01:12.214 MR. BILL McCLELLAN IS WITH US, A 01:12.281 --> 01:13.282 FOUNDER OF THE PROGRAM. 01:13.349 --> 01:15.684 HE'S WITH THE ST. LOUIS 01:15.751 --> 01:16.352 POST-DISPATCH. 01:16.418 --> 01:18.487 RAY HARTMANN WITH RAWSTORY.COM, 01:18.554 --> 01:21.290 THE BIG 550, KTRS, AND THE 01:21.357 --> 01:23.425 RIVERFRONT TIMES, ANOTHER 01:23.492 --> 01:23.926 FOUNDER. 01:23.992 --> 01:25.761 AND HE'S THE NEWS EDITOR AND 01:25.828 --> 01:28.764 SPORTS COLUMNIST WITH THE 01:28.831 --> 01:32.868 ST. LOUIS AMERICAN, ALVIN REID. 01:32.935 --> 01:34.903 OKAY, LET ME ASK YOU, RAY 01:34.970 --> 01:37.973 HARTMANN, IT WAS KIND OF 01:38.040 --> 01:38.974 HISTORIC, I GUESS. 01:39.041 --> 01:41.543 PEOPLE SAID THE TEN OR WAS IT 01:41.610 --> 01:43.078 12-HOUR MEETING THIS WEEK OF THE 01:43.145 --> 01:45.214 ST. LOUIS BOARD OF ALDERMEN, 01:45.280 --> 01:46.448 SHATTERED ALL RECORDS FOR THIS 01:46.515 --> 01:47.983 LEGISLATIVE BODY THAT NEVER NET 01:48.050 --> 01:49.818 AT QUITE SUCH A LENGTH. 01:49.885 --> 01:51.320 I GUESS HISTORIANS WILL HAVE TO 01:51.387 --> 01:53.355 LOOK INTO THAT AND SEE IF THAT'S 01:53.422 --> 01:56.725 TRUE, BUT NONETHELESS, THIS YEAR 01:56.792 --> 01:58.894 ST. LOUIS IS GETTING 498 MILLION 01:58.961 --> 01:59.695 FEDERAL DOLLARS FROM THE 01:59.762 --> 02:01.830 AMERICAN RESCUE PLAN AND A LOT 02:01.897 --> 02:03.532 OF THAT HAS BEEN ALLOCATED 02:03.599 --> 02:05.067 THANKS TO ACTION BY THE BOARD. 02:05.134 --> 02:07.736 DIRECT PAYMENTS OF $500 WILL GO 02:07.803 --> 02:09.972 TO 10,000 NEEDY ST. LOUISANS. 02:10.038 --> 02:14.243 GIFT CARDS GO TO ST. LOUISANS SO 02:14.309 --> 02:15.544 THEY'LL BE VACCINATED. 02:15.611 --> 02:17.513 THE POLICE WILL GET $5 MILLION 02:17.579 --> 02:19.114 IN OVERTIME AND ALL THIS GOES TO 02:19.181 --> 02:21.016 THE BOARD OF ESTIMATE AND 02:21.083 --> 02:22.684 APPORTIONMENT WHICH MEETS FRI, 02:22.751 --> 02:22.951 TOMORROW. 02:23.018 --> 02:24.486 THERE'S ANOTHER STEP BEFORE THIS 02:24.553 --> 02:25.988 BECOMES REALITY, BUT OVERALL, 02:26.054 --> 02:31.126 WHAT DID YOU SYMPATTHINK? 02:31.193 --> 02:33.128 >> I THINK A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE 02:33.195 --> 02:34.363 CYNICAL ABOUT THE CITY OF 02:34.430 --> 02:35.364 ST. LOUIS AND I WISH WASHINGTON 02:35.431 --> 02:36.698 WOULD WORK AS WELL AS THE CITY 02:36.765 --> 02:37.833 OF ST. LOUIS DID. 02:37.900 --> 02:39.902 YOU HAD DIFFERENCES OF OPINION 02:39.968 --> 02:41.770 BETWEEN MAYOR TISHAURA JONES AND 02:41.837 --> 02:44.406 LEWIS REED, THE ALDERMANIC 02:44.473 --> 02:46.575 PRESIDENT AND THEY SAT DOWN AND 02:46.642 --> 02:47.876 APPARENTLY HASHED IT OUT. 02:47.943 --> 02:50.212 I THINK IT'S EASY TO SIT HERE, 02:50.279 --> 02:51.947 BUT I THINK THEY COMPROMISED AND 02:52.014 --> 02:53.215 WHAT'S WE WANT PUBLIC OFFICIALS 02:53.282 --> 02:54.716 TO DO IS TALK THINGS OUT AND 02:54.783 --> 02:56.485 COMPROMISE, AND I HAPPEN TO 02:56.552 --> 02:58.153 THINK THAT THE -- THAT WHILE 02:58.220 --> 03:00.022 IT'S UNCONVENTIONAL, THE DIRECT 03:00.088 --> 03:01.990 PAYMENTS WILL BE STIMULUSES TO 03:02.057 --> 03:03.959 THE ST. LOUIS ECONOMY AND MORE 03:04.026 --> 03:05.394 IMPORTANT, HELP THE PEOPLE 03:05.461 --> 03:08.330 THAT -- THE 10,000 PEOPLE THAT 03:08.397 --> 03:09.731 WILL BE RECEIVING THEM AND 03:09.798 --> 03:12.534 THEY'LL BE VERY HELPFUL, VERY 03:12.601 --> 03:13.669 CRITICAL TO THOSE FOLKS. 03:13.735 --> 03:15.871 I THINK IT'S A GOOD STEP. 03:15.938 --> 03:17.606 I THINK THEY'RE WORKING IN THE 03:17.673 --> 03:18.340 RIGHT DIRECTION. 03:18.407 --> 03:23.145 >> WHILE I AGREE WITH HIM, I'M 03:23.212 --> 03:25.581 GOING TO GO WAY BACK WHEN THIS 03:25.647 --> 03:26.648 FIRST CAME UP AND BILL McCLELLAN 03:26.715 --> 03:28.217 SAID WHY NOT JUST TAKE THE 03:28.283 --> 03:31.987 $5 MILLION OUT OF THE STIMULUS 03:32.054 --> 03:32.354 PACKAGE? 03:32.421 --> 03:34.089 SO IT'S KIND OF -- MAYBE IT 03:34.156 --> 03:35.491 DIDN'T NEED TO TAKE SIX HOURS 03:35.557 --> 03:37.359 AND MAYBE SOME OF THE SOLUTIONS 03:37.426 --> 03:40.395 WERE RIGHT THERE, SO MAYBE THIS 03:40.462 --> 03:42.130 WAS A LITTLE TOO MUCH POLITICAL 03:42.197 --> 03:43.365 DOG FIGHT, BUT IT'S CALLED 03:43.432 --> 03:45.367 COMPROMISE AND LIKE RAY SAID, 03:45.434 --> 03:47.536 THAT'S, I THINK, ALL THAT MOST 03:47.603 --> 03:49.905 OF AMERICA WANTS RIGHT NOW. 03:49.972 --> 03:51.740 AND IF BOTH TEAMS CAN SAY, LIKE, 03:51.807 --> 03:53.675 HEY, I GOT A WIN OUT OF THIS, 03:53.742 --> 03:55.077 THAT'S NOT A BAD THING. 03:55.143 --> 03:56.745 THAT'S NOT A BAD THING AT ALL. 03:56.812 --> 03:58.747 SO HEY, IF YOU'RE GOING TO GET 03:58.814 --> 04:02.050 THE JOB DONE, GET THE JOB DONE. 04:02.117 --> 04:03.986 >> WELL -- I'M SORRY, BILL. 04:04.052 --> 04:04.386 GO AHEAD. 04:04.453 --> 04:05.587 >> I WAS GOING TO SAY, I'M HAPPY 04:05.654 --> 04:09.224 WITH IT, TOO, BUT IT'S GOING TO 04:09.291 --> 04:12.127 BE INTERESTING TO FIGURE OUT 04:12.194 --> 04:15.430 WHAT 10,000 PEOPLE GET $500 04:15.497 --> 04:18.033 BECAUSE THERE'S AN AWFUL LOT OF 04:18.100 --> 04:20.335 PEOPLE WHO COULD USE $500. 04:20.402 --> 04:22.938 DO YOU GIVE IT TO THE POOREST 04:23.005 --> 04:26.742 PEOPLE OR DOES IT HAVE TO BE 04:26.808 --> 04:27.943 SOMEBODY WHO WAS IMPACTED 04:28.010 --> 04:30.879 DIRECTLY BY COVID, SOMEONE WHO 04:30.946 --> 04:31.480 LOST THEIR JOB? 04:31.547 --> 04:32.948 I DON'T KNOW THE DETAILS OF 04:33.015 --> 04:34.383 THAT, BUT IT WILL BE 04:34.449 --> 04:34.683 INTERESTING. 04:34.750 --> 04:35.817 >> REALLY BROADCASTERS SHOULD BE 04:35.884 --> 04:37.853 FIRST IN LINE. 04:37.920 --> 04:41.590 >> WE'VE HAD STIMULUS CHECKS 04:41.657 --> 04:45.294 FROM PRESIDENT BUSH, PRESIDENT 04:45.360 --> 04:46.795 TRUMP, PRESIDENT BIDEN BECAUSE 04:46.862 --> 04:48.830 OF COVID. 04:48.897 --> 04:50.265 JEFFREY BOYD AND LEWIS REED WERE 04:50.332 --> 04:52.234 CERTAINLY NOT IN FAVOR OF IT 04:52.301 --> 04:55.404 JUST ON ITS MERITS BECAUSE 04:55.470 --> 04:57.539 THEY'RE SAYING THAT IT'S -- YOU 04:57.606 --> 04:59.675 CAN'T PROVE THAT IT'S GOING TO 04:59.741 --> 05:01.076 MAKE THAT MUCH OF A DIFFERENCE 05:01.143 --> 05:03.812 AND THAT IT WAS JUST GOOD MONEY 05:03.879 --> 05:06.748 AFTER BAD OR WHAT HAVE YOU. 05:06.815 --> 05:09.017 WHAT I'M TRYING TO FIGURE OUT IS 05:09.084 --> 05:12.688 MAYOR JONES SAID THAT THIS WILL 05:12.754 --> 05:15.424 ADDRESS THE CRIME ISSUE AT -- OR 05:15.490 --> 05:16.758 THE ROOT CAUSE OF THE CRIME 05:16.825 --> 05:19.061 ISSUE IN THE CITY AND IT WILL 05:19.127 --> 05:20.395 KEEP PEOPLE IN THEIR HOMES. 05:20.462 --> 05:22.798 AND I THINK THAT'S AN AWFUL LOT 05:22.864 --> 05:26.535 TO EXPECT OF A $500 CHECK. 05:26.602 --> 05:29.871 I DON'T -- I HONESTLY DON'T SEE 05:29.938 --> 05:31.907 HOW $500 ADDRESSES THE ROOT 05:31.974 --> 05:33.008 CAUSES OF CRIME IN OUR CITY. 05:33.075 --> 05:35.077 >> WELL, NO, THAT'S POLITICAL 05:35.143 --> 05:35.277 TALK. 05:35.344 --> 05:37.179 IT WILL ADDRESS IT. 05:37.245 --> 05:40.182 NOW, IT MAY BE ONE GAZILLIONth 05:40.248 --> 05:43.051 OF, YOU KNOW, IMPACT, BUT IT 05:43.118 --> 05:45.020 COULD -- IT COULD -- PROBABLY 05:45.087 --> 05:45.854 WILL MAKE SOME IMPACT. 05:45.921 --> 05:49.024 SO I MEAN, I'M NOT SAYING IT'S 05:49.091 --> 05:49.758 GOING TO SOLVE CRIME. 05:49.825 --> 05:51.593 >> I THINK IT MAKES THE 05:51.660 --> 05:52.628 POLITICIANS POPULAR WHEN THEY 05:52.694 --> 05:54.129 HAND OUT MONEY, THERE'S NO 05:54.196 --> 05:55.697 DOUBT, AND THAT'S WHY THERE WAS 05:55.764 --> 05:56.932 AN INTERESTING CAVEAT TO THIS 05:56.999 --> 05:58.200 MEASURE AND THAT WAS THAT NO 05:58.266 --> 06:01.536 NAME, IMAGE, OR LIKENESS OF ANY 06:01.603 --> 06:02.504 POLITICIAN COULD BE ATTACHED TO 06:02.571 --> 06:06.475 THOSE $500 CHECKS OR TO THE GIFT 06:06.541 --> 06:06.842 CARDS. 06:06.908 --> 06:08.210 NOW, I DON'T -- DON'T GET ME 06:08.276 --> 06:08.443 WRONG. 06:08.510 --> 06:10.345 A LOT OF PEOPLE COULD USE THAT 06:10.412 --> 06:11.780 MONEY, BUT THERE'S ALSO A TON OF 06:11.847 --> 06:13.649 LITTER OUT THERE AND IN THE 06:13.715 --> 06:15.751 1930s, WE HAD THE WORKS PROGRESS 06:15.817 --> 06:16.118 ADMINISTRATION. 06:16.184 --> 06:17.019 I WOULD HAVE LIKED TO HAVE SEEN 06:17.085 --> 06:18.587 SOME SORT OF GROUP OF PEOPLE 06:18.654 --> 06:20.656 GETTING PAID $500 TO CLEAN UP 06:20.722 --> 06:23.225 SOME OF OUR HIGHWAYS AND BYWAYS 06:23.291 --> 06:24.092 IN THE CITY OF ST. LOUIS. 06:24.159 --> 06:26.094 >> LET ME POINT OUT, THEY DO 06:26.161 --> 06:27.162 HAVE -- AND I DON'T KNOW WHAT IT 06:27.229 --> 06:29.364 IS, BUT THEY HAVE A FAIRLY 06:29.431 --> 06:30.732 SPECIFIC PLAN AND LIKE BILL 06:30.799 --> 06:31.733 SAYS, IT WILL BE INTERESTING TO 06:31.800 --> 06:34.336 SEE HOW IT IS IN PRACTICE, BUT 06:34.403 --> 06:35.404 IT'S NOT LIKE THEY'RE JUST 06:35.470 --> 06:36.672 SAYING -- I THINK IT'S FAMILIES 06:36.738 --> 06:37.939 AND THEY HAVE A BUNCH OF 06:38.006 --> 06:38.206 CRITERIA. 06:38.273 --> 06:40.175 SO MY POINT IS, THEY GOT A PLAN. 06:40.242 --> 06:41.810 WE'LL HAVE TO SEE IF IT WORKS. 06:41.877 --> 06:45.047 I THINK IT DOES MATTER AND I 06:45.113 --> 06:49.818 THINK THAT POVERTY IS ONE OF THE 06:49.885 --> 06:50.886 INDICATORS OF CRIME. 06:50.952 --> 06:52.354 >> OKAY, BUT -- 06:52.421 --> 06:54.022 >> TO THE EXTENT SOME PEOPLE ARE 06:54.089 --> 06:55.757 ABLE -- 500 MAY NOT SEEM LIKE A 06:55.824 --> 06:58.093 LOT TO EVERYBODY, BUT IT MIGHT 06:58.160 --> 07:00.629 BE THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN 07:00.696 --> 07:01.930 KEEPING THE LIGHTS ON. 07:01.997 --> 07:03.632 >> READING IN THE PAPER TODAY, 07:03.699 --> 07:04.833 BILL McCLELLAN, THAT THERE ARE 07:04.900 --> 07:06.635 800 JOBS IN THE CITY OF 07:06.702 --> 07:07.969 ST. LOUIS THAT ARE NOT FILLED, 07:08.036 --> 07:09.171 AND THIS IS A STORY TAKING A 07:09.237 --> 07:11.073 LOOK AT HOW, BECAUSE THEY CAN'T 07:11.139 --> 07:12.741 FIND PEOPLE TO WORK AS TRASH 07:12.808 --> 07:15.377 HAULERS, THE CITY IS NO LONGER 07:15.444 --> 07:16.178 SEPARATING THE RECYCLE MATERIAL 07:16.244 --> 07:17.279 FROM THE TRASH. 07:17.345 --> 07:19.081 IT'S ALL BEING COLLECTED 07:19.147 --> 07:20.148 TOGETHER, AT LEAST TEMPORARILY. 07:20.215 --> 07:21.316 WHO KNOWS HOW LONG THIS IS GOING 07:21.383 --> 07:23.118 TO LAST, BUT ONE OF THE REASONS 07:23.185 --> 07:25.387 IS THEY CAN'T FIND TRASH 07:25.454 --> 07:25.721 HAULERS. 07:25.787 --> 07:27.589 THERE'S ABOUT 30 OPENINGS THERE, 07:27.656 --> 07:30.792 BUT OVERALL IN THE CITY, 800 JOB 07:30.859 --> 07:31.860 OPENINGS AND IT IS KIND OF 07:31.927 --> 07:34.029 UNUSUAL, ISN'T IT, TO BE HANDING 07:34.096 --> 07:35.464 OUT CHECKS TO PEOPLE WHO CAN'T 07:35.530 --> 07:37.399 FIND WORK WHILE THE CITY ITSELF 07:37.466 --> 07:39.034 HAS 800 JOBS AVAILABLE. 07:39.101 --> 07:42.671 >> OH, THERE'S A VERY 07:42.738 --> 07:43.271 INTERESTING STORY BECAUSE I 07:43.338 --> 07:46.141 WOULD THINK THAT, YOU KNOW, THE 07:46.208 --> 07:47.542 POLICE DEPARTMENT MIGHT HAVE 07:47.609 --> 07:49.478 TROUBLE FINDING ELIGIBLE CITY 07:49.544 --> 07:51.680 DWELLERS BECAUSE THEY MIGHT HAVE 07:51.747 --> 07:53.749 RECORDS OR SOMETHING, BUT YOU 07:53.815 --> 07:55.050 WOULDN'T HAVE THAT PROBLEM WITH 07:55.117 --> 07:56.785 TRASH HAULERS AND I THINK 07:56.852 --> 07:59.054 THERE'S A LOT OF PEOPLE WHO 07:59.121 --> 08:01.723 WOULD REALLY LIKE A STEADY JOB 08:01.790 --> 08:03.625 WITH BENEFITS AND IT'S 08:03.692 --> 08:04.526 INCREDIBLE TO ME THAT WE 08:04.593 --> 08:06.161 HAVEN'T -- THAT THE CITY HAS NOT 08:06.228 --> 08:10.065 BEEN ABLE TO FILL THOSE JOBS. 08:10.132 --> 08:13.502 AND HEATHER NAVARRO, THE 28th 08:13.568 --> 08:16.772 WARD ALDERMAN, SAID SHE WENT 08:16.838 --> 08:18.106 ONLINE TO SEE HOW EASY IT IS TO 08:18.173 --> 08:20.175 APPLY FOR A JOB AND SHE COULDN'T 08:20.242 --> 08:20.742 DO IT. 08:20.809 --> 08:22.377 AND THEY QUOTED SOMEBODY SAYING 08:22.444 --> 08:24.446 WELL, THE SYSTEM IS FROM 1968. 08:24.513 --> 08:28.550 AND I REMEMBER 1968, AND I GOT 08:28.617 --> 08:31.953 TIES FROM 1968, BUT YOU DON'T 08:32.020 --> 08:33.388 WANT TO HAVE A COMPUTER SYSTEM 08:33.455 --> 08:34.322 FROM 1968. 08:34.389 --> 08:36.992 SO I THINK THE CITY OUGHT TO 08:37.058 --> 08:39.494 REALLY MAKE AN EFFORT TO HIRE 08:39.561 --> 08:41.296 PEOPLE AND GIVE THEM HONEST 08:41.363 --> 08:43.799 WORK, AND I'M SURE THAT THERE'S 08:43.865 --> 08:45.033 PLENTY OF PEOPLE WHO WOULD WANT 08:45.100 --> 08:47.736 THE TRASH HAULING JOBS AND SOME 08:47.803 --> 08:49.971 OF THE OTHER 800 JOBS. 08:50.038 --> 08:50.338 IT'S -- 08:50.405 --> 08:52.507 >> I'M NOT SURE THAT IT'S A 08:52.574 --> 08:54.075 MATTER OF THE CITY NOT TRYING. 08:54.142 --> 08:56.845 I THINK, YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU TALK 08:56.912 --> 08:58.713 ABOUT TRASH HAULERS AND WE'RE 08:58.780 --> 09:00.115 TALKING ABOUT POLICE OFFICERS 09:00.182 --> 09:04.019 AND HOW FAR DOWN WE ARE ON THAT 09:04.085 --> 09:09.524 SCORE AND THE I.T. NEEDS OF THE 09:09.591 --> 09:12.060 CITY, THERE ARE -- AS CHARLIE 09:12.127 --> 09:13.895 SAID, AS YOU'VE ALL AGREED, 09:13.962 --> 09:16.898 THERE ARE ALMOST 1,000 POSITIONS 09:16.965 --> 09:18.333 OPEN IN THE CITY. 09:18.400 --> 09:21.369 AND THEY -- PEOPLE OBVIOUSLY 09:21.436 --> 09:23.572 DON'T WANT THAT KIND OF WORK. 09:23.638 --> 09:25.740 >> WELL, I CAN SEE I.T. -- I CAN 09:25.807 --> 09:27.442 SEE A SHORTAGE OF I.T. WORKERS 09:27.509 --> 09:28.910 BECAUSE MAYBE AN I.T. WORKER 09:28.977 --> 09:30.011 COULD MAKE MORE IN PRIVATE 09:30.078 --> 09:30.312 INDUSTRY. 09:30.378 --> 09:32.414 AND LIKE I SAID, I CAN SEE THE 09:32.480 --> 09:33.615 PROBLEM WITH THE POLICE 09:33.682 --> 09:34.649 DEPARTMENT. 09:34.716 --> 09:37.886 BUT I DON'T SEE THE PROBLEM 09:37.953 --> 09:39.287 HIRING TRASH HAULERS. 09:39.354 --> 09:41.056 >> THEY DON'T WANT TO -- 09:41.122 --> 09:44.326 >> THAT'S A GOOD JOB, WENDY. 09:44.392 --> 09:46.394 >> LINDA THOMAS FROM THE 09:46.461 --> 09:47.929 PERSONNEL DEPARTMENT, IN THE 09:47.996 --> 09:49.130 POST-DISPATCH A COUPLE WEEKS 09:49.197 --> 09:51.766 AGO, SAID BECAUSE OF FEDERAL 09:51.833 --> 09:52.767 BENEFITS, THEY'RE COMING FROM 09:52.834 --> 09:54.536 WASHINGTON, D.C., PEOPLE ARE NOT 09:54.603 --> 09:55.637 AS MOTIVATED TO APPLY FOR SOME 09:55.704 --> 09:56.938 OF THESE JOBS. 09:57.005 --> 09:58.673 I BELIEVE SHE MADE HER COMMENTS 09:58.740 --> 10:00.141 IN A POST-DISPATCH STORY WHEN IT 10:00.208 --> 10:02.344 WAS DESCRIBED HOW THEY COULDN'T 10:02.410 --> 10:04.813 FIND 911 DISPATCHERS. 10:04.880 --> 10:09.017 >> BUT THEY'VE HAD THIS PROBLEM 10:09.084 --> 10:10.719 LONG BEFORE THE PANDEMIC, LONG 10:10.785 --> 10:12.053 BEFORE THE GOVERNMENT WAS GIVING 10:12.120 --> 10:14.256 $300 A WEEK EXTRA ON 10:14.322 --> 10:14.589 UNEMPLOYMENT. 10:14.656 --> 10:16.825 THE 911 STUFF, THAT WENT SOUTH 10:16.892 --> 10:19.594 AS SOON AS THE CITY GOT CONTROL 10:19.661 --> 10:20.428 OF THE POLICE DEPARTMENT. 10:20.495 --> 10:21.663 YOU KNOW, THEY SUDDENLY STRIPPED 10:21.730 --> 10:25.767 A LOT OF 911 WORKERS AND I'M 10:25.834 --> 10:27.669 SURE WE'VE BEEN SHORT GARBAGE 10:27.736 --> 10:29.871 HAULERS FOR A LONG TIME AS WELL. 10:29.938 --> 10:33.341 >> I THINK WHAT THEY -- IF YOU 10:33.408 --> 10:34.876 WAIVED THE DRUG TEST FOR A LOT 10:34.943 --> 10:37.145 OF JOBS, A LOT MORE PEOPLE WOULD 10:37.212 --> 10:37.379 APPLY. 10:37.445 --> 10:39.147 THAT'S JUST THE REALITY. 10:39.214 --> 10:39.648 >> THAT'S TRUE. 10:39.714 --> 10:42.617 >> AND THEN, TOO, I WANTED TO BE 10:42.684 --> 10:44.486 A JOURNALIST SINCE I WAS 12, BUT 10:44.552 --> 10:48.757 THE FIRST JOB -- AND MY MOM -- 10:48.823 --> 10:50.525 HI, MOM -- AS MY WITNESS, 10:50.592 --> 10:52.327 5-YEAR-OLD ALVIN THOUGHT THE 10:52.394 --> 10:55.931 COOLEST THING IN THE WORLD WOULD 10:55.997 --> 10:58.033 BE TO BE A GARBAGE MAN, AND I 10:58.099 --> 10:59.334 KNOW THEY'RE SANITATION WORKERS 10:59.401 --> 11:00.802 NOW, THAT'S HOW WE KNOW THEM, 11:00.869 --> 11:02.237 BECAUSE THEY GOT TO RIDE ON THE 11:02.304 --> 11:05.106 BACK OF THE TRUCK. 11:05.173 --> 11:06.341 NOW, TIMES HAVE CHANGED. 11:06.408 --> 11:08.610 NOW I'M KIND OF LIKE THIS. 11:08.677 --> 11:10.445 GOOD-PAYING JOB WITH BENEFITS? 11:10.512 --> 11:11.980 I DON'T UNDERSTAND WHY PEOPLE 11:12.047 --> 11:13.748 ARE HESITANT TO, YOU KNOW, LIKE 11:13.815 --> 11:16.117 FULFILL SOME OF THESE JOBS. 11:16.184 --> 11:18.620 I MEAN, I DON'T GET IT. 11:18.687 --> 11:20.221 >> BUT ME -- 11:20.288 --> 11:21.856 >> THE COMPUTER SYSTEM GOES BACK 11:21.923 --> 11:22.223 TO -- 11:22.290 --> 11:23.758 >> WE'VE ALL SEEN THE ONLINE 11:23.825 --> 11:25.493 REPORT OF PEOPLE SAYING THAT 11:25.560 --> 11:27.095 THEY'RE GIVING UP THEIR -- 11:27.162 --> 11:28.430 THEY'RE GIVING UP THEIR WHITE 11:28.496 --> 11:29.965 COLLAR JOBS, THEY'RE GIVING UP 11:30.031 --> 11:31.399 THEIR CORPORATE JOBS BECAUSE 11:31.466 --> 11:35.003 THEY DON'T WANT TO DEAL WITH THE 11:35.070 --> 11:37.172 ADVERSITY IN THE WORKPLACE, AND 11:37.238 --> 11:39.074 I MEAN, THOSE ARE ACTUAL TERMS 11:39.140 --> 11:41.376 THAT ARE BEING THROWN AROUND. 11:41.443 --> 11:42.210 ADVERSITY IN THE WORKPLACE. 11:42.277 --> 11:43.945 I MEAN, THAT'S -- TO ME, THAT'S 11:44.012 --> 11:45.380 PART OF GOING TO WORK. 11:45.447 --> 11:48.049 THERE'S GOING TO BE ADVERSITY, 11:48.116 --> 11:49.551 YOU KNOW. 11:49.617 --> 11:52.988 YOU'RE PAID TO DO A JOB, SO IT 11:53.054 --> 11:54.556 SONET DEEM TO BE AN AND -- 11:54.622 --> 11:55.991 DOESN'T SEEM TO BE AN APPETITE 11:56.057 --> 11:56.424 FOR IT. 11:56.491 --> 11:57.525 >> HEY, WHILE WE'RE TALKING 11:57.592 --> 11:58.793 ABOUT THE CITY AND WE'LL MOVE ON 11:58.860 --> 12:00.462 TO OTHER REGIONAL ISSUES IN JUST 12:00.528 --> 12:03.064 A MOMENT, ALVIN REID, THIS PAST 12:03.131 --> 12:07.268 WEEK MAYOR TISHAURA JONES AND 12:07.335 --> 12:08.470 CONGRESSMAN CORI BUSH VISITED 12:08.536 --> 12:10.572 DENVER TO TAKE A LOOK AT THE 12:10.638 --> 12:12.040 STAR PROGRAM THERE. 12:12.107 --> 12:13.141 STAR STANDS FOR SUPPORT TEAM 12:13.208 --> 12:15.176 ASSISTANCE RESPONSE, A PROGRAM 12:15.243 --> 12:17.679 THAT SENDS SOCIAL WORKERS TO 12:17.746 --> 12:20.615 SOME, I GUESS -- TO SOME SITES 12:20.682 --> 12:21.516 THAT ORDINARILY WOULD HAVE BEEN 12:21.583 --> 12:22.350 VISITED BY POLICE. 12:22.417 --> 12:24.419 IN THIS CASE, IT'S TRESPASSING 12:24.486 --> 12:26.955 OR WELFARE ISSUES OR IT COULD BE 12:27.022 --> 12:28.189 A SYRINGE FOUND ON THE STREET, 12:28.256 --> 12:29.224 THINGS LIKE THAT. 12:29.290 --> 12:30.925 NOT THE MOST SERIOUS CRIMES. 12:30.992 --> 12:35.930 MAYOR LYDA KREWSON HAD TWO PILOT 12:35.997 --> 12:37.399 PROGRAMS ALONG THESE LINES. 12:37.465 --> 12:39.034 LET ME ASK YOU. 12:39.100 --> 12:40.702 DO YOU THINK THIS TRIP WILL BEAR 12:40.769 --> 12:40.902 FRUIT? 12:40.969 --> 12:42.137 >> I THINK IT COULD. 12:42.203 --> 12:49.244 I THINK YOU GO TO -- GO FOR 12:49.310 --> 12:50.078 WHAT'S THE SUCCESSFUL FORECAST 12:50.145 --> 12:51.379 AND YOU GO AND FIND OUT WHAT 12:51.446 --> 12:51.980 THEY'RE DOING. 12:52.047 --> 12:53.748 THAT'S ONE OF THE THINGS THAT 12:53.815 --> 12:54.983 THE MAYOR AND CORI BUSH AND A 12:55.050 --> 12:57.819 LOT OF POLITICIANS THAT ARE 12:57.886 --> 12:58.586 REPUBLICAN OR DEMOCRATIC 12:58.653 --> 12:59.754 ACTUALLY KIND OF ADHERE TO, 12:59.821 --> 13:01.589 MAYBE WE DON'T NEED TO SEND THE 13:01.656 --> 13:02.557 POLICE TO EVERY SITUATION. 13:02.624 --> 13:04.192 AND TO FIND OUT THE BEST WAY TO 13:04.259 --> 13:06.895 DO IT ON A TRIP TO DENVER, I 13:06.961 --> 13:10.465 MEAN, EVEN IF THEY -- YOU KNOW, 13:10.532 --> 13:12.300 OVERNIGHT, I REALLY DON'T THINK 13:12.367 --> 13:14.302 THAT'S SETTING THE WHOLE BUDGET 13:14.369 --> 13:15.170 BACK THAT MUCH. 13:15.236 --> 13:17.639 NOW, DON'T HOLD ME TO THIS, BUT 13:17.705 --> 13:18.840 I BELIEVE THERE MAY HAVE BEEN 13:18.907 --> 13:20.842 SOME TRIPS INVOLVED TO CHINA AND 13:20.909 --> 13:23.044 PLACES LIKE THAT DURING PREVIOUS 13:23.111 --> 13:24.712 ADMINISTRATIONS, YOU KNOW, WHEN 13:24.779 --> 13:28.249 WE'RE GOING TO BE THE TRADE 13:28.316 --> 13:30.518 PARTNER WITH CHINA AND -- 13:30.585 --> 13:30.985 >> CHINA HUB. 13:31.052 --> 13:34.789 >> YEAH, EXACTLY, AND WHERE DID 13:34.856 --> 13:36.424 THAT GO AND WHERE DID A LOT OF 13:36.491 --> 13:38.193 PROJECT WHERE I'M SURE A LOT OF 13:38.259 --> 13:39.694 VISITING WENT ON THAT WERE MUCH, 13:39.761 --> 13:41.029 MUCH MORE COSTLY THAN AN 13:41.096 --> 13:42.363 OVERNIGHT TRIP TO DENVER. 13:42.430 --> 13:43.565 >> I DON'T EVEN THINK IT'S -- GO 13:43.631 --> 13:45.066 AHEAD, RAY, I'M SORRY. 13:45.133 --> 13:45.767 >> NO, YOU'RE GOOD. 13:45.834 --> 13:47.001 >> I DON'T THINK IT'S A MATTER 13:47.068 --> 13:47.969 OF MONEY. 13:48.036 --> 13:50.205 I JUST THINK IT'S -- I THINK 13:50.271 --> 13:51.606 IT'S THE APPLES/ORANGES 13:51.673 --> 13:51.906 COMPARISON. 13:51.973 --> 13:53.708 ST. LOUIS IS IN THE MIDDLE OF A 13:53.775 --> 13:55.610 CRISIS IN TERMS OF CRIME AND 13:55.677 --> 13:57.312 HOMICIDE NUMBERS, AND DENVER IS 13:57.378 --> 13:59.514 NOT ON ANY OF THE FBI'S MOST 13:59.581 --> 14:00.949 DANGEROUS CITIES LISTS. 14:01.015 --> 14:02.717 SO I COULD CARE LESS WHAT IT 14:02.784 --> 14:04.486 COSTS TO GO OUT THERE. 14:04.552 --> 14:07.622 I JUST -- I DON'T KNOW THAT IT'S 14:07.689 --> 14:08.656 AN APPLICABLE -- THE STAR 14:08.723 --> 14:09.691 PROGRAM IS APPLICABLE TO WHAT 14:09.757 --> 14:11.092 WE'RE DEALING WITH HERE IN 14:11.159 --> 14:11.526 ST. LOUIS. 14:11.593 --> 14:15.897 >> I'M SURE THEY GOT PLENTY OF 14:15.964 --> 14:17.198 CRIME IN DENVER AND THEY'VE 14:17.265 --> 14:19.868 GOT -- IF IT'S A BEST PRACTICES 14:19.934 --> 14:24.005 THING, YOU CAN ARGUE SOME OF 14:24.072 --> 14:25.306 IT'S SYMBOLIC AND POLITICAL 14:25.373 --> 14:27.442 FIGURES GO TO THESE THINGS, BUT 14:27.509 --> 14:28.510 I DON'T THINK YOU SHOULD ALWAYS 14:28.576 --> 14:29.644 RULE OUT TRADE STUFF BECAUSE 14:29.711 --> 14:31.012 SOMETIMES THAT ACTUALLY, AS 14:31.079 --> 14:32.881 FARFETCHED AS IT MAY SEEM, 14:32.947 --> 14:33.581 SOMETIMES YOU HAVE TO HAVE YOUR 14:33.648 --> 14:35.083 CHIEF EXECUTIVES, WHETHER IT'S 14:35.150 --> 14:37.819 THE GOVERNOR OR MAYOR, WHATEVER, 14:37.886 --> 14:39.888 SHOW UP AND TALK TO TRADE 14:39.954 --> 14:40.188 DELEGATIONS. 14:40.255 --> 14:42.490 I MEAN, THAT'S WHAT THEY DO. 14:42.557 --> 14:45.260 JUST BECAUSE IT SOUNDS LIKE AN 14:45.326 --> 14:46.394 EXOTIC TRIP DOESN'T NECESSARILY 14:46.461 --> 14:47.829 MEAN YOU SHOULDN'T DO IT. 14:47.896 --> 14:49.731 I MEAN, BECAUSE IF OTHER CITIES 14:49.797 --> 14:51.966 HAVE PEOPLE GOING, THEIR MAYORS 14:52.033 --> 14:53.902 GOING, THEY CAN MAKE A 14:53.968 --> 14:54.202 DIFFERENCE. 14:54.269 --> 14:56.671 YOU HAVE TO PICK -- THAT'S PART 14:56.738 --> 14:58.473 OF -- IF GOVERNMENT IS GOING TO 14:58.540 --> 14:59.607 BE IN THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT 14:59.674 --> 15:01.476 BUSINESS, YOU CAN'T SAY, OH NO, 15:01.543 --> 15:04.812 WE CAN'T GO OVERSEAS BECAUSE OF 15:04.879 --> 15:08.016 THE COST OF THE TRIP. 15:08.082 --> 15:10.585 A LOT OF THOSE, THOSE ARE -- 15:10.652 --> 15:12.687 SOMETIMES THOSE TRIPS CAN BE 15:12.754 --> 15:15.190 SUBSIDIZED BY PRIVATE SECTOR 15:15.256 --> 15:15.523 FOLKS. 15:15.590 --> 15:17.425 AND I HAVE NO -- THIS IS HARDLY 15:17.492 --> 15:18.393 A MAJOR TRIP. 15:18.459 --> 15:20.094 I THINK SYMBOLICALLY, IT MAKES 15:20.161 --> 15:20.328 SENSE. 15:20.395 --> 15:22.664 >> I NEED TO GO TO SAN FRANCISCO 15:22.730 --> 15:24.532 AND VISIT THEIR PBS STATION, SO 15:24.599 --> 15:27.936 CHARLIE, LET'S WORK THAT OUT, 15:28.002 --> 15:28.336 OKAY? 15:28.403 --> 15:30.605 >> WE'LL HAVE A GOOD TIME AT THE 15:30.672 --> 15:32.240 DENVER PBS STATION, IF YOU 15:32.307 --> 15:33.875 FOLLOW MY DRIFT. 15:33.942 --> 15:34.609 >> I WOULD TAKE IT. 15:34.676 --> 15:36.010 >> I THINK IT'S GREAT THAT 15:36.077 --> 15:39.714 THEY'RE LEARNING BEST PRACTICES 15:39.781 --> 15:40.915 AND I DON'T THINK THE COST 15:40.982 --> 15:42.584 MATTERS AT ALL, BUT WENDY, YOU 15:42.650 --> 15:43.251 HAVE A POINT. 15:43.318 --> 15:45.253 LAST YEAR DENVER HAD ABOUT 90 15:45.320 --> 15:46.421 HOSM SIDES. 15:46.487 --> 15:48.089 THEIR POPULATION IS ABOUT 15:48.156 --> 15:48.323 70,000. 15:48.389 --> 15:50.191 IN A TYPICAL YEAR, DENVER HAS 15:50.258 --> 15:52.594 ABOUT 60 HOMICIDE AND YEAR, SO 15:52.660 --> 15:53.928 IT IS KIND OF APPLES AND ORANGES 15:53.995 --> 15:56.731 BECAUSE WE HAD 260 HOMICIDES. 15:56.798 --> 15:58.166 WE WERE DEALING WITH REAL 15:58.233 --> 15:59.100 VIOLENT CRIME THAT DENVER 15:59.167 --> 16:00.668 DOESN'T SEE AND THE STAR PROGRAM 16:00.735 --> 16:03.037 HAD ABOUT 1300 RESPONSES LAST 16:03.104 --> 16:04.239 YEAR WHICH, WOW, THAT'S A 16:04.305 --> 16:05.807 FRACTION OF THE CALLS THAT 16:05.873 --> 16:06.741 POLICE AT THE ST. LOUIS 16:06.808 --> 16:07.375 METROPOLITAN POLICE DEPARTMENT 16:07.442 --> 16:08.776 HAVE TO RESPOND TO. 16:08.843 --> 16:10.778 >> IF YOU WANT -- IF YOU'RE 16:10.845 --> 16:12.180 GOING FOR BEST PRACTICES, WOULD 16:12.247 --> 16:13.681 YOU WANT SOMEBODY THAT'S HAVING 16:13.748 --> 16:14.549 BETTER OUTCOMES? 16:14.616 --> 16:15.783 I DON'T THINK THAT -- THE IDEA 16:15.850 --> 16:18.152 THAT DENVER IS SOME PLACE WHERE, 16:18.219 --> 16:20.555 YOU KNOW -- I MEAN, I'VE BEEN 16:20.622 --> 16:21.122 THERE. 16:21.189 --> 16:23.458 DENVER IS GREAT. 16:23.524 --> 16:25.893 THERE'S ALL KINDS OF PRACTICES 16:25.960 --> 16:28.529 THAT GO INTO PRIMARY, BUT THE 16:28.596 --> 16:29.897 FACT THAT THEY HAVE A LOW ONE IS 16:29.964 --> 16:32.900 NOT AN ARGUMENT NOT TO GO. 16:32.967 --> 16:34.902 >> THEY HAVE 700,000 PEOPLE, WE 16:34.969 --> 16:37.405 HAVE 300,000 IN OUR CITY. 16:37.472 --> 16:39.207 >> IT'S NOT APPLES AND ORANGES. 16:39.274 --> 16:40.541 >> CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG. 16:40.608 --> 16:42.410 ISN'T THERE A GUY BY THE NAME OF 16:42.477 --> 16:44.178 WILL PINCKNEY WITH THE MAYOR'S 16:44.245 --> 16:44.479 OFFICE? 16:44.545 --> 16:45.613 HE LAUNCHED THIS PROGRAM A 16:45.680 --> 16:47.048 COUPLE OF TIMES IN ST. LOUIS AND 16:47.115 --> 16:48.449 HE'S A FORMER NEW YORK COP WHO I 16:48.516 --> 16:50.151 THINK WAS PROFILED IN ONE LOCAL 16:50.218 --> 16:51.986 PAPER RECENTLY IF I'M NOT 16:52.053 --> 16:52.353 MISTAKEN. 16:52.420 --> 16:54.455 HEY, LET'S TALK TO YOU, WENDY 16:54.522 --> 16:56.557 WIESE, ABOUT WHAT I THINK IS A 16:56.624 --> 16:59.827 TRULY UNPRECEDENTED STORY. 16:59.894 --> 17:01.829 THIS IS A BATTLE BETWEEN THE 17:01.896 --> 17:03.331 NATURAL RESOURCE DEFENSE COUNCIL 17:03.398 --> 17:04.165 AND FIRE. 17:04.232 --> 17:07.168 FIRE HAS A SUBSIDIARY THAT RUNS 17:07.235 --> 17:08.836 A PIPELINE BETWEEN HERE AND IT 17:08.903 --> 17:10.405 GOES THROUGH ILLINOIS, UP NORTH 17:10.471 --> 17:13.574 TO GET SOME OF THAT FRACKING 17:13.641 --> 17:16.044 NATURAL GAS, AND THAT FIRE 17:16.110 --> 17:20.014 PIPELINE WAS REVIEWED BY THE 17:20.081 --> 17:20.548 FEDERAL ENERGY REGULATORY 17:20.615 --> 17:21.883 COMMISSION AND APPROVED. 17:21.949 --> 17:25.586 HOWEVER, JUST RECENTLY, THE 17:25.653 --> 17:28.022 WASHINGTON, D.C., COURT OF 17:28.089 --> 17:29.324 APPEALS DECIDED TO REVOKE THE 17:29.390 --> 17:30.258 CERTIFICATION FOR THAT PIPELINE, 17:30.325 --> 17:32.827 SAYING THAT FERC, THE REGULATORY 17:32.894 --> 17:35.563 BODY, DID NOT FOLLOW ITS OWN 17:35.630 --> 17:37.332 RULES. 17:37.398 --> 17:40.301 AND AS A RESULT, THERE'S A STORY 17:40.368 --> 17:41.969 IN SUNDAY'S POST-DISPATCH THAT 17:42.036 --> 17:44.872 THIS PIPELINE BRINGING NATURAL 17:44.939 --> 17:46.808 GAS TO ST. LOUIS MIGHT BE 17:46.874 --> 17:47.709 MOTHBALLED AND THEY'RE EVEN 17:47.775 --> 17:49.577 TALKING ABOUT FILLING IT WITH 17:49.644 --> 17:52.046 SAND BECAUSE IMPLODING IT WOULD 17:52.113 --> 17:54.015 BE ANOTHER ENVIRONMENTAL 17:54.082 --> 17:54.282 DISASTER. 17:54.349 --> 17:55.249 HOW DO YOU FEEL? 17:55.316 --> 17:57.285 DO YOU THINK THAT SINCE THE 17:57.352 --> 17:58.519 REGULATORY BODY VIOLATED ITS OWN 17:58.586 --> 18:00.888 RULES, ALLEGEDLY, THAT THE 18:00.955 --> 18:01.856 PIPELINE SHOULD BE TAKEN DOWN? 18:01.923 --> 18:04.158 >> WELL, I MEAN, SHAME ON THE 18:04.225 --> 18:05.493 REGULATORY BODY THEN. 18:05.560 --> 18:07.428 BUT YOU DON'T PENALIZE THE 18:07.495 --> 18:10.131 NATURAL GAS CUSTOMERS HERE IN 18:10.198 --> 18:11.466 THE MIDWEST. 18:11.532 --> 18:16.738 THE WHOLE POINT WAS TO AVOID A 18:16.804 --> 18:18.840 SITUATION OR THEY HAD AVOIDED A 18:18.906 --> 18:20.408 SITUATION SIMILAR TO WHAT WE SAW 18:20.475 --> 18:21.976 IN TEXAS IN FEBRUARY DURING A 18:22.043 --> 18:24.645 DEEP FREEZE IN WHICH PEOPLE LOST 18:24.712 --> 18:26.581 THEIR LIVES, PEOPLE WERE FOR A 18:26.647 --> 18:27.815 VARIETY OF DIFFERENT REASONS AND 18:27.882 --> 18:29.016 THINGS THAT THEY HAD SIGNED UP 18:29.083 --> 18:32.186 FOR IN TERMS OF BUDGET BILLING, 18:32.253 --> 18:35.223 THEY WERE RECEIVING 12 AND 18:35.289 --> 18:38.459 $15,000 UTILITY BILLS. 18:38.526 --> 18:42.697 AND I'M SORRY THAT SOME OF THE 18:42.764 --> 18:44.098 MARKET ANALYSIS THAT SHOULD HAVE 18:44.165 --> 18:46.167 BEEN PERFORMED WASN'T PERFORMED, 18:46.234 --> 18:47.735 BUT THAT'S NOT, IN MY WAY OF 18:47.802 --> 18:50.071 LOOKING AT THINGS, THAT'S NOT ON 18:50.138 --> 18:50.338 FIRE. 18:50.405 --> 18:52.006 THAT'S ON FERC. 18:52.073 --> 18:55.276 >> WELL, THAT'S -- I MEAN, THIS 18:55.343 --> 18:57.278 ISN'T SOME, LIKE, LIBERAL THINK 18:57.345 --> 18:58.513 TANK THAT MADE THIS DECISION. 18:58.579 --> 19:00.882 THE COURT OF APPEALS, OKAY? 19:00.948 --> 19:02.283 THESE ARE JUDGES LOOKING AT THE 19:02.350 --> 19:04.852 LAW AS TO HOW -- AND OBVIOUSLY 19:04.919 --> 19:06.654 THEY WERE REVIEWING IT IF 19:06.721 --> 19:08.556 THEY'RE APPELLATE JUDGES. 19:08.623 --> 19:09.590 I DON'T KNOW WHICH SIDE 19:09.657 --> 19:11.559 APPEALED, BUT THEY LOOKED AT THE 19:11.626 --> 19:14.128 LAW AS IT WAS APPLIED BY LOWER 19:14.195 --> 19:16.898 COURT JUDGES AND MADE A 19:16.964 --> 19:17.231 DECISION. 19:17.298 --> 19:18.399 YOU CAN SAY SHAME ON THEM. 19:18.466 --> 19:21.402 IF THEY DIDN'T DO IT RIGHT, THEN 19:21.469 --> 19:23.438 THE JUDGES ARE SAYING YOU GOT TO 19:23.504 --> 19:24.372 DO IT RIGHT. 19:24.439 --> 19:26.274 IT'S NOT LIKE THERE'S SOME 19:26.340 --> 19:27.742 WRONGDOING BY THE APPELLATE 19:27.809 --> 19:27.975 COURT. 19:28.042 --> 19:29.577 >> I THINK THIS IS INTENDED TO 19:29.644 --> 19:30.678 HAVE A CHILLING IMPACT ON 19:30.745 --> 19:32.780 ANYBODY WHO WANTS TO INVEST IN 19:32.847 --> 19:33.815 PIPELINES, PERIOD. 19:33.881 --> 19:34.048 PERIOD. 19:34.115 --> 19:35.683 >> YOU CAN'T REFUTE THE LAW, 19:35.750 --> 19:35.917 WENDY. 19:35.983 --> 19:36.984 THESE ARE JUDGES. 19:37.051 --> 19:39.454 THE APPELLATE COURT HAS GOT TO 19:39.520 --> 19:40.955 BE REVIEWING BY DEFINITION A 19:41.022 --> 19:43.624 LOWER COURT THAT FOUND THAT THE 19:43.691 --> 19:45.059 REGULATORS -- AND IT'S NOT 19:45.126 --> 19:46.727 EXACTLY A NEWS FLASH THAT IN THE 19:46.794 --> 19:49.997 TRUMP ERA, THE REGULATORS WERE 19:50.064 --> 19:51.299 LOOKING THE OTHER WAY. 19:51.365 --> 19:53.534 THEY'RE SAYING YOU CAN'T DO 19:53.601 --> 19:55.236 THAT, AND SO I DON'T UNDERSTAND 19:55.303 --> 19:57.738 WHAT THE ARGUMENT IS WITH -- IS 19:57.805 --> 19:58.506 THE ARGUMENT THAT THE JUDGES 19:58.573 --> 20:01.008 SHOULD LOOK THE OTHER WAY TOO? 20:01.075 --> 20:03.244 THEY JUST ENFORCE THE LAW. 20:03.311 --> 20:04.111 >> DONE! 20:04.178 --> 20:04.612 IT'S DONE. 20:04.679 --> 20:08.549 THE PIPELINE -- I MEAN, IT'S 20:08.616 --> 20:08.983 COMPLETED. 20:09.050 --> 20:11.118 IT'S DELIVERING NATURAL GAS. 20:11.185 --> 20:12.820 >> WELL, THEY FOLLOWED THE LAW 20:12.887 --> 20:14.922 AND IF THE REGULATORS DIDN'T, 20:14.989 --> 20:17.191 THEN IT'S THE RIGHT DECISION AND 20:17.258 --> 20:18.860 WE -- WE CAN'T HAVE EVERY 20:18.926 --> 20:21.195 DECISION COME DOWN TO, WELL, YOU 20:21.262 --> 20:25.199 KNOW, IT'S BETTER FOR OUR 20:25.266 --> 20:25.433 ECONOMY. 20:25.500 --> 20:26.000 THERE IS THE ENVIRONMENTAL 20:26.067 --> 20:27.168 CONCERNS AND THEY'RE THERE FOR A 20:27.235 --> 20:28.402 REASON AND IF THEY DIDN'T FOLLOW 20:28.469 --> 20:30.137 THE RULES, THEN THIS IS THE 20:30.204 --> 20:30.705 RIGHT DECISION. 20:30.771 --> 20:31.439 >> POLITICS DOESN'T PLAY INTO 20:31.506 --> 20:33.808 THIS AT ALL, RIGHT, RAY? 20:33.875 --> 20:34.742 THIS IS PURELY LEGAL. 20:34.809 --> 20:36.377 >> WITH THE COURT OF APPEALS? 20:36.444 --> 20:37.011 I DON'T THINK SO. 20:37.078 --> 20:37.845 MAYBE IT DID. 20:37.912 --> 20:38.479 >> OKAY, OKAY. 20:38.546 --> 20:39.547 >> I DON'T KNOW. 20:39.614 --> 20:41.415 AGAIN, THE COURT OF APPEALS, 20:41.482 --> 20:43.351 WHICH IS, YOU KNOW, NOT REALLY 20:43.417 --> 20:44.385 KNOWN AS BEING ALL THAT 20:44.452 --> 20:44.986 LIBERAL -- 20:45.052 --> 20:47.154 >> LET ME JUST JUMP IN. 20:47.221 --> 20:48.656 >> REVIEWING A LOWER COURT'S 20:48.723 --> 20:49.557 DECISION ABOUT WHETHER THE LAW 20:49.624 --> 20:50.358 WAS FOLLOWED. 20:50.424 --> 20:53.961 IF IT WASN'T, THEN YOU GOT TO 20:54.028 --> 20:55.162 EITHER FOLLOW THE LAW OR DUMP 20:55.229 --> 20:56.664 SAND IN IT, I GUESS. 20:56.731 --> 20:58.199 >> WELL, TRULY UNPRECEDENTED. 20:58.266 --> 20:59.901 I'VE NEVER HEARD OF A GAS 20:59.967 --> 21:00.635 PIPELINE BEING MOTH BALLED. 21:00.701 --> 21:04.338 WE'LL SEE WHAT HAPPENS, RAY. 21:04.405 --> 21:05.673 WHILE WE HAVE YOU FRONT AND 21:05.740 --> 21:07.975 CENTER, LET ME ASK YOU ABOUT THE 21:08.042 --> 21:13.381 SENTENCE THIS WEEK OF RANDY 21:13.447 --> 21:14.515 HAYES, THE ST. LOUIS POLICE 21:14.582 --> 21:15.349 OFFICER WHO PUBLIC HEALTH 21:15.416 --> 21:16.918 PLEADED GUILTY IN THE BEATING OF 21:16.984 --> 21:19.086 HIS COLLEAGUE, MR. LUTHER HALL, 21:19.153 --> 21:20.321 AND HE RECEIVED FOUR YEARS. 21:20.388 --> 21:21.756 A JUST SENTENCE? 21:21.822 --> 21:24.091 >> WELL, IT GOES BY -- IT'S A 21:24.158 --> 21:26.460 FEDERAL CASE, SO IT GOES BY THE 21:26.527 --> 21:27.094 POINT SYSTEM. 21:27.161 --> 21:28.396 THERE'S POINTS ADDED FOR 21:28.462 --> 21:30.731 COOPERATION, POINTS TAKEN AWAY 21:30.798 --> 21:32.433 FOR THIS AND POINTS ADDED FOR 21:32.500 --> 21:32.667 THAT. 21:32.733 --> 21:34.769 THEY START WITH A RANGE AND, YOU 21:34.835 --> 21:36.771 KNOW, THERE'S NOT THAT MUCH 21:36.837 --> 21:37.104 SUBJECTIVITY. 21:37.171 --> 21:38.973 THERE'S SOME, BUT, YOU KNOW, THE 21:39.040 --> 21:40.641 JUDGE -- I HAVE TO SAY, I WAS 21:40.708 --> 21:41.275 SURPRISED BY IT. 21:41.342 --> 21:43.010 I THOUGHT IT WAS MORE THAN I 21:43.077 --> 21:44.879 THOUGHT HE WOULD GET. 21:44.946 --> 21:47.915 I WOULD BE CONCERNED IF I WAS 21:47.982 --> 21:49.250 DUSTIN BOONE WHO BASICALLY WAS 21:49.317 --> 21:50.518 TRIED FOR THE SAME -- IF THE 21:50.585 --> 21:53.721 PAPER HAD IT RIGHT, PRETTY MUCH 21:53.788 --> 21:55.723 TRIED ON THE SAME CHARGES THAT 21:55.790 --> 21:57.558 MR. HAYES WAS JUST SENTENCED, 21:57.625 --> 21:59.026 AND HE COOPERATED. 21:59.093 --> 22:00.294 I WOULDN'T BE SLEEPING TOO WELL 22:00.361 --> 22:01.963 IF I WAS, YOU KNOW, HAD THIS 22:02.029 --> 22:04.365 GONE TO A JURY TRIAL AND BEEN 22:04.432 --> 22:05.566 FOUND GUILTY OF THOSE. 22:05.633 --> 22:08.002 BUT ONCE AGAIN, YOU DON'T KNOW 22:08.069 --> 22:09.370 WHERE BOONE VERSUS HAYES ARE ON 22:09.437 --> 22:12.406 THE SENTENCING GUIDELINES. 22:12.473 --> 22:14.976 IT'S A LOT OF -- A LOT OF IT IS 22:15.042 --> 22:15.409 NOT SUBJECTIVE. 22:15.476 --> 22:17.345 SOME OF IT IS, BUT THEY'VE GOT A 22:17.411 --> 22:18.913 RANGE AND HE STAYED WITHIN THE 22:18.980 --> 22:19.113 RANGE. 22:19.180 --> 22:21.415 THE PROSECUTORS WANTED SIX. 22:21.482 --> 22:22.883 AGAIN, I WAS SURPRISED BY IT, 22:22.950 --> 22:23.317 BUT -- 22:23.384 --> 22:24.518 >> HOW ABOUT YOU, BILL 22:24.585 --> 22:25.019 McCLELLAN? 22:25.086 --> 22:29.357 >> I THOUGHT, YOU KNOW, THE 22:29.423 --> 22:33.394 SUBJECTIVE PART, I DON'T -- THE 22:33.461 --> 22:35.997 WHOLE POINT OF GETTING PEOPLE TO 22:36.063 --> 22:37.231 TESTIFY IS YOU'RE GOING TO GIVE 22:37.298 --> 22:39.000 THEM A BREAK ON THE SENTENCING, 22:39.066 --> 22:41.836 ESPECIALLY IN A CASE LIKE THIS 22:41.902 --> 22:44.305 WHERE IT'S A COP TESTIFYING 22:44.372 --> 22:46.040 AGAINST OTHER COPS, AND I HATE 22:46.107 --> 22:49.410 TO SEE THE GUY WHO TESTIFIED 22:49.477 --> 22:50.611 GETTING MORE TIME THAN THE 22:50.678 --> 22:55.349 PEOPLE WHO WITH -- PEOPLE WHO 22:55.416 --> 22:56.150 WENT TO TRIAL. 22:56.217 --> 22:57.952 IF WHAT WE WANT IN THE FUTURE IS 22:58.019 --> 23:00.187 OTHER COPS TO TESTIFY ABOUT BAD 23:00.254 --> 23:01.555 CONDUCT OF THEIR COLLEAGUES, 23:01.622 --> 23:04.058 THIS ISN'T A VERY GOOD WAY TO DO 23:04.125 --> 23:04.225 IT. 23:04.291 --> 23:05.626 >> IF A JUDGE GOES ABOVE OR 23:05.693 --> 23:07.662 BELOW THE -- THE WAY I 23:07.728 --> 23:09.563 UNDERSTAND IT, PARTICULARLY 23:09.630 --> 23:11.098 ABOVE IT, YOU -- AND I AGREE 23:11.165 --> 23:12.633 WITH YOU, BASICALLY. 23:12.700 --> 23:13.567 SURE, YOU WOULD EXPECT. 23:13.634 --> 23:15.236 THAT'S WHY I SAY I WOULD THINK 23:15.302 --> 23:16.771 MR. BOON HAS GOT TO BE CONCERNED 23:16.837 --> 23:18.506 ABOUT THAT PERHAPS, ALTHOUGH I 23:18.572 --> 23:21.242 DON'T KNOW IF IT WORKS THAT WAY. 23:21.308 --> 23:23.611 IT IS THE POINT SYSTEM. 23:23.678 --> 23:25.413 IT IS THE GUIDELINES. 23:25.479 --> 23:27.281 IF THE JUDGE VIOLATES -- 23:27.348 --> 23:28.482 >> BUT THEY CAN GO ABOVE AND 23:28.549 --> 23:29.083 BELOW, RAY. 23:29.150 --> 23:32.586 >> BUT IF THEY DO -- 23:32.653 --> 23:35.289 >> NOT ONLY CAN THEY GO ABOVE OR 23:35.356 --> 23:38.759 BELOW, BUT LIKE JOHN RALLO, IF 23:38.826 --> 23:40.027 LATER RANDY HAYES HAS HE HAS 23:40.094 --> 23:42.196 SOME SORT OF ILLNESS, WHO KNOWS 23:42.263 --> 23:43.798 IF HE'LL GET OUT OR IF HE GOES 23:43.864 --> 23:46.600 TO SOME SORT OF REHAB PROGRAM 23:46.667 --> 23:47.635 LIKE STEVE STENGER DID, MAYBE 23:47.702 --> 23:49.036 HE'LL BE OUT IN TWO YEARS. 23:49.103 --> 23:50.538 >> I'M NOT EVEN DEFENDING THE 23:50.604 --> 23:50.738 JUDGE. 23:50.805 --> 23:52.640 I'M JUST SAYING IF THEY DO, 23:52.707 --> 23:54.175 THEY'RE MORE SUBJECT TO GETTING 23:54.241 --> 23:56.277 OVERTURN TO APPEAL AND A LOT OF 23:56.343 --> 23:57.511 JUDGES DON'T WANT THAT TO HAPPEN 23:57.578 --> 23:58.212 TO THEM. 23:58.279 --> 24:04.185 >> OKAY, SPEAKING OF THE COURTS, 24:04.251 --> 24:12.259 BILL, EUGENE KROGG JR. RELEASED 24:12.326 --> 24:17.398 A EXPLETIVE IN COURT, BASICALLY 24:17.465 --> 24:18.933 EXPLETIVE YOU, THIS JUDGE GAVE 24:18.999 --> 24:20.534 THE ATTORNEY A WEEK IN JAIL FOR 24:20.601 --> 24:21.736 CURSING AT HIM. 24:21.802 --> 24:22.570 WHAT DO YOU THINK? 24:22.636 --> 24:23.771 >> WELL, I DON'T KNOW EITHER OF 24:23.838 --> 24:24.905 THOSE FELLOWS. 24:24.972 --> 24:26.674 I CALLED UP A GOOD FRIEND OF 24:26.741 --> 24:28.175 MINE AND HE DIDN'T KNOW THE 24:28.242 --> 24:31.879 LAWYER AND HE DIDN'T KNOW THE 24:31.946 --> 24:33.781 JUDGE, BUT HE KNEW THE CURSOR 24:33.848 --> 24:36.717 AND HE SAID THAT YOU -- 75 YEARS 24:36.784 --> 24:40.454 OLD, YOUNG MAN IN HIS PRIME, AND 24:40.521 --> 24:42.256 HE SAID THAT HE'S A GOOD FELLOW 24:42.323 --> 24:46.861 AND HE SAID, I'D REALLY LIKE TO 24:46.927 --> 24:47.828 KNOW WHAT WAS BEHIND THIS. 24:47.895 --> 24:50.598 BUT AS FAR AS THE JUDGE PUTTING 24:50.664 --> 24:52.733 THE GUY IN JAIL, I THINK THAT 24:52.800 --> 24:55.102 THERE SHOULD BE DECORUM IN COURT 24:55.169 --> 24:56.804 AND LIKE I THINK A JUDGE, YOU 24:56.871 --> 24:59.006 KNOW, OUGHT TO BE ABLE TO SAY TO 24:59.073 --> 24:59.774 SOMEBODY, I DON'T LIKE THE WAY 24:59.840 --> 25:01.041 YOU'RE DRESSED. 25:01.108 --> 25:02.643 THAT'S NOT RESPECTFUL TO THE 25:02.710 --> 25:02.877 COURT. 25:02.943 --> 25:05.146 AND IF SOMEBODY CURSES AT A 25:05.212 --> 25:07.014 JUDGE, I THINK THE JUDGE IS WELL 25:07.081 --> 25:09.416 WITHIN HIS OR HER RIGHTS TO SAY 25:09.483 --> 25:11.952 I'M NOT GOING TO TOLERATE THAT 25:12.019 --> 25:13.821 AND TO THROW THE GUY IN JAIL. 25:13.888 --> 25:14.955 I DON'T HAVE A PROBLEM WITH 25:15.022 --> 25:15.823 THAT. 25:15.890 --> 25:18.459 >> WELL, I JUST THINK A WEEK IS 25:18.526 --> 25:20.728 TOO MUCH. 25:20.795 --> 25:23.831 IF HE TOLD HIM, HEY, GO TO HADES 25:23.898 --> 25:25.800 AND GET ONE DAY, TOLD HIM TO 25:25.866 --> 25:28.836 KISS SOMETHING, YOU GET THREE 25:28.903 --> 25:29.036 DAYS. 25:29.103 --> 25:29.904 IT WASN'T JUST THE EXTREME 25:29.970 --> 25:31.405 LANGUAGE HE USED. 25:31.472 --> 25:33.274 I KNOW SOMEBODY WHO HAD JURY 25:33.340 --> 25:34.608 DUTY THIS WEEK AND SOMEBODY IN 25:34.675 --> 25:37.077 THE LARGE JURY FOOL REFUSED TO 25:37.144 --> 25:38.979 PUT -- POOL REFUSED TO PUT A 25:39.046 --> 25:39.814 MASK ON. 25:39.880 --> 25:41.415 APPARENTLY THEY TALKED TO HIM 25:41.482 --> 25:43.184 AND JUST ESCORTED HIM OUT OF THE 25:43.250 --> 25:43.484 BUILDING. 25:43.551 --> 25:45.319 TO ME, HE SHOULD HAVE GOT A 25:45.386 --> 25:45.619 WEEK. 25:45.686 --> 25:47.521 >> MAYBE A WEEK IS A LITTLE 25:47.588 --> 25:50.357 LONG, ALVIN, BUT IF I WAS A 25:50.424 --> 25:53.494 JUDGE, I'D WANT IT KNOWN THAT 25:53.561 --> 25:55.196 YOU DON'T COME IN AND CURSE AT 25:55.262 --> 25:59.300 ME BECAUSE YOU DON'T LIKE MY 25:59.366 --> 25:59.767 DECISIONS. 25:59.834 --> 26:08.309 >> WHY DID -- WHO CUSSED OUT 26:08.375 --> 26:10.277 THE LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE DURING 26:10.344 --> 26:11.045 THE ERIC GREITENS STUFF? 26:11.111 --> 26:12.713 WHAT ATTORNEY WAS THAT? 26:12.780 --> 26:14.081 WAS IT AL WATKINS? 26:14.148 --> 26:15.115 NOTHING HAPPENED TO HIM. 26:15.182 --> 26:17.685 >> I AGREE WITH ALVIN THAT IT 26:17.751 --> 26:19.386 SEEMS A LITTLE MUCH, A WEEK. 26:19.453 --> 26:20.487 A LITTLE SHOCK TIME FOR 24 26:20.554 --> 26:22.957 HOURS, BUT I THINK YOU MAKE A 26:23.023 --> 26:24.458 CASE FOR MAYBE THERE NEEDS TO BE 26:24.525 --> 26:26.894 SENTENCING GUIDELINES FOR CURSE 26:26.961 --> 26:29.396 WORDS, YOU KNOW. 26:29.463 --> 26:31.699 LIKE HAVE A SCALE. 26:31.765 --> 26:33.367 GEORGE CARLIN'S SEVEN DIRTY 26:33.434 --> 26:34.635 WORDS GET A CERTAIN -- 26:34.702 --> 26:36.003 >> I REMEMBER BEING IN COURT 26:36.070 --> 26:38.873 WHEN A DEFENDANT SAID TO THE 26:38.939 --> 26:40.808 JUDGE, YOU'RE A LYING SOB AND 26:40.875 --> 26:44.144 THE JUDGE JUST IGNORED HIM AND 26:44.211 --> 26:55.022 HE SAID YOU'RE A PERSIDIOUS SOB 26:55.089 --> 26:57.091 AND THE JUDGE SENT HIM TO JAIL. 26:57.157 --> 26:59.426 I ASKED THE JUDGE ABOUT IT AND 26:59.493 --> 27:01.428 HE SAID I CAN IGNORE IT, BUT IF 27:01.495 --> 27:02.963 I HAVE TO LOOK UP A WORD, HE'S 27:03.030 --> 27:04.231 GOING TO JAIL. 27:04.298 --> 27:06.333 >> WELL, JUSTICE IS SACRED. 27:06.400 --> 27:07.935 YOU HAVE THESE COURTHOUSE 27:08.002 --> 27:10.571 SHOOTINGS, YOU HAVE TO HAVE THAT 27:10.638 --> 27:11.572 DECORUM, BUT THEY SHOULD HAVE 27:11.639 --> 27:13.274 SOCKED HIM WITH A FINE AS WELL. 27:13.340 --> 27:14.408 >> SO MUCH FOR FREEDOM OF SPEECH 27:14.475 --> 27:15.276 IN A COURTROOM. 27:15.342 --> 27:16.877 THANK YOU, EVERYBODY, FOR YOUR 27:16.944 --> 27:17.111 OPINION. 27:17.177 --> 27:18.045 DON'T GO AWAY. 27:18.112 --> 27:19.980 IN A MOMENT, WE'RE GOING TO TALK 27:20.047 --> 27:21.415 ABOUT MAKING OUR AREA WALKABLE 27:21.482 --> 27:23.417 AND BIKEABLE AND HOW THAT NIGHT 27:23.484 --> 27:25.019 NEED TO MORE ECONOMIC 27:25.085 --> 27:25.419 DEVELOPMENT. 27:25.486 --> 27:27.821 CINDY MENSE OF TRAILNET AND 27:27.888 --> 27:28.522 SARAH ARNOSKY OF GREATER 27:28.589 --> 27:30.324 ST. LOUIS INC. ARE JOINING OUR 27:30.391 --> 27:31.992 FOUNDERS, BILL McCLELLAN AND RAY 27:32.059 --> 27:33.627 HARTMANN, ON DONNYBROOK NEXT UP. 27:33.694 --> 27:34.261 >> Announcer: DONNYBROOK IS MADE 27:34.328 --> 27:35.195 POSSIBLE BY THE SUPPORT OF THE 27:35.262 --> 27:35.763 BETSY AND THOMAS PATTERSON 27:35.829 --> 27:36.363 FOUNDATION AND THE MEMBERS OF 27:36.430 --> 27:39.133 NINE PBS. 28:05.664 --> 28:08.066 >> WELCOME TO NEXT UP. 28:08.133 --> 28:09.701 WE'RE JOINED TONIGHT BY CINDY 28:09.768 --> 28:11.870 MENSE OF TRAILNET AND SARAH 28:11.937 --> 28:13.805 ARNOSKY OF GREATER ST. LOUIS, 28:13.872 --> 28:13.972 INC. 28:14.039 --> 28:15.807 WELCOME TO YOU BOTH. 28:15.874 --> 28:16.408 >> THANK YOU. 28:16.475 --> 28:16.875 >> THANK YOU. 28:16.942 --> 28:18.810 >> SO TELL US, YOU'RE INVOLVED 28:18.877 --> 28:21.746 IN THE BUSINESS OF MAKING 28:21.813 --> 28:25.117 ST. LOUIS A BIKING AND WALKABLE 28:25.183 --> 28:25.984 REGION. 28:26.051 --> 28:27.486 TELL US HOW YOU'RE GOING ABOUT 28:27.552 --> 28:27.953 DOING THAT. 28:28.019 --> 28:28.587 >> GREAT. 28:28.653 --> 28:29.187 THANKS, RAY. 28:29.254 --> 28:30.122 I'LL GET STARTED. 28:30.188 --> 28:31.857 I'M CINDY MENSE, THE CEO OF 28:31.923 --> 28:34.593 TRAILNET, AND TRAIL NET, WE'RE A 28:34.659 --> 28:36.928 32-YEAR-OLD ORGANIZATION IN 28:36.995 --> 28:41.466 ST. LOUIS, A BIKEABLE/PEDESTRIAN 28:41.533 --> 28:42.000 ADVOCACY ORG. 28:42.067 --> 28:43.835 IT WORKS TO MAKE THE STREETS 28:43.902 --> 28:45.070 SAFER FOR PEOPLE TO WALKING 28:45.137 --> 28:47.172 BIKE, AND USE TRANSIT AS A WAY 28:47.239 --> 28:47.839 OF LIFE. 28:47.906 --> 28:48.840 WE HAVE A TERRIFIC PARTNERSHIP 28:48.907 --> 28:53.145 WITH GREATER ST. LOUIS, INC., ON 28:53.211 --> 28:54.112 TRYING TO MOVE BETTER 28:54.179 --> 28:55.013 INFRASTRUCTURE FORWARD. 28:55.080 --> 28:56.081 SARAH? 28:56.148 --> 28:57.716 >> THANKS, CINDY. 28:57.782 --> 29:00.352 YEAH, MY NAME IS SARAH ARNOSKY, 29:00.418 --> 29:01.386 I'M VICE PRESIDENT OF GREATER 29:01.453 --> 29:01.887 ST. LOUIS INC. 29:01.953 --> 29:03.788 I BELIEVE YOU HAD OUR CEO, JASON 29:03.855 --> 29:05.557 HALL, ON THE SHOW A COUPLE WEEKS 29:05.624 --> 29:05.891 AGO. 29:05.957 --> 29:06.691 HAPPY TO BE HERE. 29:06.758 --> 29:08.660 AS CINDY MENTIONED, FROM OUR 29:08.727 --> 29:09.461 PERSPECTIVE OF GREATER 29:09.528 --> 29:11.563 ST. LOUIS, INC., WHICH IS AN 29:11.630 --> 29:12.931 ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CIVIC 29:12.998 --> 29:14.132 ORGANIZATION, WE RECOGNIZE THE 29:14.199 --> 29:16.401 VALUE OF HAVING A BIKE AND 29:16.468 --> 29:17.569 PEDESTRIAN FRIENDLY COMMUNITY 29:17.636 --> 29:20.705 AND HOW THAT CONTRIBUTES IN MANY 29:20.772 --> 29:21.973 WAYS, BUT PARTICULARLY IT'S 29:22.040 --> 29:22.741 ECONOMIC IMPACT. 29:22.807 --> 29:25.277 AND SO REALLY WANTING TO PLAY A 29:25.343 --> 29:28.180 CRITICAL ROLE AND HELP GET 29:28.246 --> 29:29.848 THINGS MOVING FORWARD TO MAKE 29:29.915 --> 29:31.283 SURE WE ARE KEEPING UP WITH OUR 29:31.349 --> 29:32.918 PEER CITIES AND MAKING ST. LOUIS 29:32.984 --> 29:34.786 ONE OF THE BEST BIKING 29:34.853 --> 29:38.056 COMMUNITIES AND CITIES AROUND 29:38.123 --> 29:39.624 THE -- REGIONS, REALLY, AROUND 29:39.691 --> 29:40.492 THE COUNTRY. 29:40.559 --> 29:43.228 >> YOU INDICATED YOU'RE 32 -- 29:43.295 --> 29:44.029 BILL, GO AHEAD. 29:44.095 --> 29:45.263 >> NO, I WAS JUST GOING TO SAY, 29:45.330 --> 29:46.198 I LOVE TO WALK. 29:46.264 --> 29:48.300 I'M A WALKER, AND WHEN I WAS 29:48.366 --> 29:49.968 WORKING DOWNTOWN ALL THE TIME, I 29:50.035 --> 29:51.803 WOULD OFTEN GO AND WALK ALONG 29:51.870 --> 29:53.205 THE RIVER. 29:53.271 --> 29:55.740 THERE'S A RIVER TRAIL JUST NORTH 29:55.807 --> 29:59.144 OF DOWNTOWN, AND I'D WALK DOWN 29:59.211 --> 30:01.112 TO PRODUCE ROW SOMETIMES, AND 30:01.179 --> 30:04.816 THE PROBLEM WITH IT IS THE FLOOD 30:04.883 --> 30:06.484 WALL GENERALLY SEPARATES THE 30:06.551 --> 30:10.288 WALKER OR THE BIKER. 30:10.355 --> 30:12.791 THERE WOULD BE BICYCLISTS, FROM 30:12.857 --> 30:13.458 THE RIVER. 30:13.525 --> 30:14.926 I THINK TO MYSELF, HERE'S THIS 30:14.993 --> 30:17.028 GREAT RESOURCE, THE RIVER, AND 30:17.095 --> 30:18.296 I'M ON THE RIVER TRAIL, BUT I 30:18.363 --> 30:19.798 CAN'T SEE THE RIVER MOST OF THE 30:19.864 --> 30:20.298 TIME. 30:20.365 --> 30:24.336 I MEAN, HOW CAN WE UTILIZE OUR 30:24.402 --> 30:25.437 RIVER A LITTLE BIT BETTER? 30:25.503 --> 30:27.439 >> YEAH, THAT'S A REALLY GREAT 30:27.505 --> 30:27.706 QUESTION. 30:27.772 --> 30:29.007 SOMETHING THAT, YOU KNOW -- ONE 30:29.074 --> 30:29.841 OF THE THINGS THAT GREATER 30:29.908 --> 30:31.776 ST. LOUIS, INC., HAS ALSO PAR 30:31.843 --> 30:34.980 TAKEN IN THE DESIGN OF DOWNTOWN 30:35.046 --> 30:36.982 ST. LOUIS COMPREHENSIVE PLAN. 30:37.048 --> 30:38.049 ONE OF THE KEY STRATEGIES THAT 30:38.116 --> 30:41.086 WAS IDENTIFIED WAS HOW DO WE 30:41.152 --> 30:42.120 RE-ENGAGE AND CELEBRATE OUR 30:42.187 --> 30:43.288 CONNECTION TO THE RIVER. 30:43.355 --> 30:44.756 SO YOU DO HAVE THE GREENWAY THAT 30:44.823 --> 30:47.025 GOES ALONG THE RIVER, BUT I 30:47.092 --> 30:48.460 TOTALLY HEAR YOU THAT THERE'S A 30:48.526 --> 30:50.161 WALL THAT DOES BLOCK THE VIEW 30:50.228 --> 30:51.463 AND THAT CONNECTION TO THE 30:51.529 --> 30:51.896 RIVER. 30:51.963 --> 30:53.231 I KNOW THAT THERE'S BEEN A LOT 30:53.298 --> 30:54.299 OF DIFFERENT OPPORTUNITIES. 30:54.366 --> 30:57.168 I KNOW THAT CINDY AT TRAILNET, 30:57.235 --> 30:58.870 THEY HELP COLLECT FOLKS TO GO ON 30:58.937 --> 31:00.105 RIVER RIDES. 31:00.171 --> 31:01.673 I DON'T KNOW IF, CINDY, YOU WANT 31:01.740 --> 31:03.141 TO SPEAK TO THAT AS WELL. 31:03.208 --> 31:03.475 >> SURE. 31:03.541 --> 31:05.944 I JUST WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE THAT 31:06.011 --> 31:09.080 THE RIVERFRONT TRAIL IS A TRAIL 31:09.147 --> 31:10.482 THAT TRAILNET ESTABLISHED IN 31:10.548 --> 31:11.283 PARTNERSHIP WITH THE CITY OF 31:11.349 --> 31:12.484 ST. LOUIS MANY YEARS AGO, SO 31:12.550 --> 31:14.886 THAT'S A LEGACY PROJECT OF OURS. 31:14.953 --> 31:16.288 IT DOES NEED -- IT NEEDS CARE 31:16.354 --> 31:17.455 AND ATTENTION SO THAT PEOPLE 31:17.522 --> 31:20.392 CONTINUE TO USE IT AND FEEL SAFE 31:20.458 --> 31:21.526 IN THAT AREA. 31:21.593 --> 31:23.962 IT DOES CONTINUE TO BE A BIT OF 31:24.029 --> 31:24.863 A CHALLENGE. 31:24.929 --> 31:26.831 WHEN THE RIVERFRONT WAS REDONE, 31:26.898 --> 31:29.501 WE DO HAVE SOME REALLY GREAT 31:29.567 --> 31:33.238 INFRASTRUCTURE THAT TRB PUT IN 31:33.305 --> 31:35.006 ALONG LEWIS K. SULLIVAN DRIVE 31:35.073 --> 31:36.241 AND THAT CERTAINLY HAS HELPED 31:36.308 --> 31:37.242 WITH THAT CONNECTION. 31:37.309 --> 31:40.512 >> FOR THOSE THAT DON'T FOLLOW 31:40.578 --> 31:41.980 YOUR WORK, HOW MUCH -- THERE'S 31:42.047 --> 31:42.647 TOO MANY PEOPLE THAT DON'T 31:42.714 --> 31:45.283 REALLY KEEP UP WITH EVERYTHING 31:45.350 --> 31:47.452 THAT'S GOING ON. 31:47.519 --> 31:49.621 HOW MUCH DIFFERENT IS ST. LOUIS 31:49.688 --> 31:51.890 TODAY THAN IN 1989 WHEN TRAILNET 31:51.956 --> 31:53.158 WAS FOUNDED? 31:53.224 --> 31:56.628 WHAT -- CAN YOU POINT TO, WHAT 31:56.695 --> 31:57.495 HAVE WE DONE TO DEVELOP OVER 31:57.562 --> 31:59.130 THAT PERIOD? 31:59.197 --> 31:59.931 >> SURE. 31:59.998 --> 32:02.067 SO ST. LOUIS HAS REALLY CHANGED 32:02.133 --> 32:02.834 OVER THE YEARS. 32:02.901 --> 32:06.338 ONE THING THAT WE KNOW IS THAT 32:06.404 --> 32:07.439 POPULATION-WISE, THIS CITY WAS 32:07.505 --> 32:09.507 BUILT FOR ABOUT A MILLION PEOPLE 32:09.574 --> 32:11.609 AND AS WE LOSE POPULATION, WE 32:11.676 --> 32:14.846 STILL HAVE THESE ROADWAYS, THESE 32:14.913 --> 32:16.348 BIG WIDE ROADWAYS WHERE THE 32:16.414 --> 32:17.749 STREETCARS USED TO BE, SO YOU'VE 32:17.816 --> 32:20.418 GOT STREETS THAT ARE 40 AND 50 32:20.485 --> 32:21.820 FEET WIDE THAT ARE ACTUALLY 32:21.886 --> 32:23.655 CONNECTING JUST NEIGHBORHOODS. 32:23.722 --> 32:27.225 AND SO WE HAVE THIS GREAT STREET 32:27.292 --> 32:29.527 GRID THAT ALSO CAN BE -- THE 32:29.594 --> 32:31.596 STREET GRID COULD BE USED IN A 32:31.663 --> 32:33.798 WAY TO MAKE SURE ROOM FOR 32:33.865 --> 32:35.900 PEDESTRIANS AND CYCLISTS TO FEEL 32:35.967 --> 32:37.102 SAFER ON THE ROADWAYS. 32:37.168 --> 32:38.570 SO WE'RE MAINTAINING A LOT OF 32:38.636 --> 32:40.672 ROADWAY AND THERE'S ROOM TO ADD 32:40.739 --> 32:41.473 IN INFRASTRUCTURE THAT WOULD 32:41.539 --> 32:44.042 MAKE IT SAFER FOR PEOPLE WALKING 32:44.109 --> 32:45.143 AND BIKING. 32:45.210 --> 32:46.311 SO THE CHANGES THAT HAVE 32:46.378 --> 32:47.746 HAPPENED OVER THE YEARS, WE USED 32:47.812 --> 32:50.615 TO BE HAPPY WITH JUST A PAINTED 32:50.682 --> 32:53.918 BIKE LANE ON THE ROAD OR SOME 32:53.985 --> 32:56.588 SHARROWS, BUT THE NATIONAL 32:56.654 --> 32:57.222 ASSOCIATION OF TRANSPORTATION 32:57.288 --> 32:58.490 OFFICIALS HAVE UPGRADED THE TYPE 32:58.556 --> 32:59.924 OF INFRASTRUCTURE THAT IS GOING 32:59.991 --> 33:01.292 TO KEEP PEOPLE SAFEST. 33:01.359 --> 33:02.694 AND SO NOW WHAT WE'RE LOOKING 33:02.761 --> 33:05.029 FOR ARE WHAT WE CALL PROTECTED 33:05.096 --> 33:06.798 BIKE LANES OR CYCLE TRACKS. 33:06.865 --> 33:09.734 SO THAT WAS -- THAT'S A PROJECT 33:09.801 --> 33:11.603 THAT, TOGETHER WITH GREATER 33:11.669 --> 33:15.573 ST. LOUIS, INC., TRAILNET HELPED 33:15.640 --> 33:17.642 PROMOTE THIS TOWER GROVE 33:17.709 --> 33:17.976 CONNECTOR. 33:18.042 --> 33:19.277 YOU ARE GOING TO SEE SOME OF THE 33:19.344 --> 33:21.146 BEST INFRASTRUCTURE IN ST. LOUIS 33:21.212 --> 33:22.614 FOR KEEPING FOLKS SAFE WHILE 33:22.680 --> 33:24.115 WALKING AND BIKING WHERE THEY'RE 33:24.182 --> 33:26.351 PHYSICALLY SEPARATED FROM 33:26.418 --> 33:26.584 TRAFFIC. 33:26.651 --> 33:27.452 THOSE ARE THE KINDS OF 33:27.519 --> 33:28.186 INFRASTRUCTURE NOW THAT WE'RE 33:28.253 --> 33:29.754 SEEING MORE AND MORE OF. 33:29.821 --> 33:31.890 THERE'S ONE PLANNED FOR 20th 33:31.956 --> 33:33.558 STREET, ONE PLANNED FOR TUCKER 33:33.625 --> 33:33.958 BOULEVARD. 33:34.025 --> 33:35.527 BOTH OF THOSE ARE FUNDED AS WELL 33:35.593 --> 33:37.962 AS TOWER GROVE, THE TOWER GROVER 33:38.029 --> 33:38.296 CONNECTOR. 33:38.363 --> 33:39.931 SO WE'RE STARTING TO SEE A SHIFT 33:39.998 --> 33:41.533 IN THAT DIRECTION. 33:41.599 --> 33:42.767 MAYBE YOU LIVE BY UNION 33:42.834 --> 33:43.034 BOULEVARD. 33:43.101 --> 33:46.438 THE CITY HAS PUT IN A PROTECTED 33:46.504 --> 33:48.273 BIKEWAY AND THEY'RE TESTING OUT 33:48.339 --> 33:49.174 NEW INFRASTRUCTURE. 33:49.240 --> 33:51.810 THESE THINGS ARE CALLED 33:51.876 --> 33:53.812 ARMADILLOS, THESE RUBBER 33:53.878 --> 33:54.913 PROTECTORS THAT ARE IN THE 33:54.979 --> 33:56.414 STREET OR THESE MOUNDS THAT 33:56.481 --> 33:57.949 WOULD KEEP CARS FROM GOING INTO 33:58.016 --> 33:59.250 THE BIKE LANE. 33:59.317 --> 34:00.552 SO IT USED TO BE ENOUGH JUST TO 34:00.618 --> 34:02.587 HAVE ROOM FOR A BIKE, BUT NOW 34:02.654 --> 34:04.389 WITH THE SIZE OF CARS AND 34:04.456 --> 34:06.458 DISTRACTED DRIVING, WHAT PEOPLE 34:06.524 --> 34:08.993 REALLY ARE DESIRING IS MORE 34:09.060 --> 34:09.828 PROTECTED INFRASTRUCTURE AND 34:09.894 --> 34:11.496 IT'S JUST REALLY EXCITING TO SEE 34:11.563 --> 34:13.064 AN ORGANIZATION LIKE GREATER 34:13.131 --> 34:15.400 ST. LOUIS, INC., EMBRACE THIS 34:15.467 --> 34:17.068 TYPE OF INFRASTRUCTURE. 34:17.135 --> 34:18.903 >> YEAH, I MEAN, WE'D LOVE TO 34:18.970 --> 34:21.973 SEE -- YOU KNOW, THINKING ABOUT 34:22.040 --> 34:23.508 THE NEIGHBORHOOD THAT THE MDA IS 34:23.575 --> 34:25.877 GOING TO, 20th STREET IS A 34:25.944 --> 34:27.345 DIRECT ROUTE UP TO THAT. 34:27.412 --> 34:29.781 THE NEW JOBS AT THE MDA, BUT 34:29.848 --> 34:31.149 ALSO HOW THAT'S GOING TO SPUR 34:31.216 --> 34:32.684 ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ALONG 20th 34:32.750 --> 34:32.917 STREET. 34:32.984 --> 34:34.352 WE'VE SEEN THAT IN A LOT OF 34:34.419 --> 34:35.787 OTHER COMMUNITIES WHERE YOU'RE 34:35.854 --> 34:37.288 CREATING THIS AMENITY THAT IS 34:37.355 --> 34:38.189 EXCITING FOR PEOPLE THAT ALREADY 34:38.256 --> 34:40.825 LIVE THERE, BUT ALSO ATTRACTS 34:40.892 --> 34:43.461 NEW RESIDENTS AND EMPLOYEES, 34:43.528 --> 34:45.163 WHICH THEN ATTRACTS EMPLOYERS, 34:45.230 --> 34:46.998 WHICH THEN ATTRACTS INVESTMENT 34:47.065 --> 34:48.233 AND MORE TAX REVENUE. 34:48.299 --> 34:50.168 IT'S REALLY A CYCLICAL PROCESS 34:50.235 --> 34:51.369 THAT DOES HAVE MULTIPLE BENEFITS 34:51.436 --> 34:54.005 IN ADDITION TO CREATING A SAFE 34:54.072 --> 34:55.607 ROUTE TO GET FROM POINT A TO 34:55.673 --> 34:56.207 POINT B. 34:56.274 --> 34:57.976 >> AND RAY, MOST OF THESE 34:58.042 --> 34:59.744 CONNECTIONS ARE CONNECTING NORTH 34:59.811 --> 35:01.713 AND SOUTH INTO AREAS OF 35:01.779 --> 35:01.980 STRENGTH. 35:02.046 --> 35:03.615 SO ST. LOUIS TENDS TO BE AN 35:03.681 --> 35:05.350 EAST-WEST CITY, RIGHT? 35:05.416 --> 35:06.451 OUR BEST CONNECTIONS, YOU'RE 35:06.518 --> 35:08.052 GOING TO SEE GOING EAST TO WEST. 35:08.119 --> 35:09.621 SO A LOT OF TIMES NORTH AND 35:09.687 --> 35:11.155 SOUTH IS CUT OUT. 35:11.222 --> 35:13.391 SO BEING ABLE TO HAVE THIS TYPE 35:13.458 --> 35:14.392 OF INFRASTRUCTURE TO CONNECT 35:14.459 --> 35:16.461 PEOPLE INTO AREAS OF STRENGTH, 35:16.528 --> 35:17.896 CONNECT THEM INTO TRANSIT, CAN 35:17.962 --> 35:19.163 REALLY BE A GAME CHANGER. 35:19.230 --> 35:20.832 >> WILL YOU BE, LIKE, RUNNING 35:20.899 --> 35:23.501 BIKE PATHS LIKE WHERE THE MDA 35:23.568 --> 35:23.701 IS? 35:23.768 --> 35:24.469 IS THAT -- 35:24.536 --> 35:26.004 >> 20th STREET IS -- 35:26.070 --> 35:27.505 >> WHAT'S THAT? 35:27.572 --> 35:29.374 >> 20th STREET HAS BEEN FUNDED. 35:29.440 --> 35:31.309 >> HOW FAR NORTH DOES IT GO? 35:31.376 --> 35:36.781 >> IT WILL REACH THE MDA. 35:36.848 --> 35:38.917 STARTING NOW IN JEFFERSON AND 35:38.983 --> 35:41.219 20th STREET AND PRIMARILY IT 35:41.286 --> 35:45.256 WILL BE A PROTECTED CYCLE TRACK, 35:45.323 --> 35:46.491 BUT THEIR DESIGN STILL NEEDS TO 35:46.558 --> 35:46.724 HAPPEN. 35:46.791 --> 35:47.792 >> AND HOW FAR SOUTH -- 35:47.859 --> 35:49.027 >> WE NEED TO MEET WITH THE 35:49.093 --> 35:51.129 COMMUNITY TO FIND OUT MORE ABOUT 35:51.195 --> 35:52.330 WHAT THEIR NEEDS ARE. 35:52.397 --> 35:53.531 >> AND HOW ABOUT SOUTH? 35:53.598 --> 35:55.233 THE SAME WAY, DID YOU DETERMINE 35:55.300 --> 35:55.900 HOW FAR -- 35:55.967 --> 35:56.901 >> THAT WILL BE TO UNION 35:56.968 --> 35:57.168 STATION. 35:57.235 --> 36:00.004 >> YEAH, THAT WILL BE A NICE 36:00.071 --> 36:03.641 CONNECTION INTO THE OTHER MAJOR 36:03.708 --> 36:05.643 GREENWAY, THE BROOKLINE 36:05.710 --> 36:06.744 GREENWAY, SO REALLY THINKING AS 36:06.811 --> 36:08.613 CINDY MENTIONED, HOW ARE WE 36:08.680 --> 36:09.614 KNITTING NEIGHBORHOODS NORTH AND 36:09.681 --> 36:11.349 SOUTH AND BEING IN CLOSE 36:11.416 --> 36:12.951 PARTNERSHIP WITH THE FOLKS OVER 36:13.017 --> 36:14.786 AT THE GREENWAY TO MAKE SURE 36:14.852 --> 36:17.388 THESE ALL COMPLEMENT EACH OTHER 36:17.455 --> 36:19.023 AND CREATE A BROADER NETWORK 36:19.090 --> 36:20.892 THROUGHOUT THE CITY. 36:20.959 --> 36:23.361 >> TO GO A LITTLE FURTHER 36:23.428 --> 36:24.762 AFIELD, THERE'S THE KATY TRAIL, 36:24.829 --> 36:29.734 CHI LIKE IT IMMENSELY -- WHICH 36:29.801 --> 36:31.502 I LIKE THE KATY TRAIL IMMENSELY 36:31.569 --> 36:33.404 AND I'VE WALKED IT A LONG WAY, 36:33.471 --> 36:37.075 BUT DO WE HAVE A WAY TO 36:37.141 --> 36:38.576 BICYCLISTS TO GET FROM ST. LOUIS 36:38.643 --> 36:40.211 TO THE KATY TRAIL EASILY? 36:40.278 --> 36:43.715 I'M NOT A BICYCLIST, BUT FOR THE 36:43.781 --> 36:45.984 BICYCLIST TO GET TO THE KATY 36:46.050 --> 36:48.219 TRAIL AND ZIP DOWN TO DEFIANCE 36:48.286 --> 36:51.889 OR HERMAN SOUNDS LIKE A GREAT 36:51.956 --> 36:52.857 TRIP AND I DON'T KNOW HOW EASY 36:52.924 --> 36:54.192 IT IS TO GET FROM THE CITY TO 36:54.258 --> 36:55.893 THE KATY TRAIL ON A BICYCLE. 36:55.960 --> 36:57.228 >> THAT IS A GOOD QUESTION, 36:57.295 --> 36:57.962 BILL. 36:58.029 --> 37:02.767 OBVIOUSLY IF YOU START IN 37:02.834 --> 37:04.135 ST. CHARLES WHERE THE TRAIL 37:04.202 --> 37:04.469 STARTS -- 37:04.535 --> 37:06.604 >> THAT'S WHERE I START WALKING, 37:06.671 --> 37:09.340 BUT I DRIVE TO ST. CHARLES. 37:09.407 --> 37:11.509 FRIENDS WHO ARE CYCLISTS, HOW 37:11.576 --> 37:14.278 WOULD YOU BICYCLE THERE? 37:14.345 --> 37:15.947 >> PERSONALLY, I'VE TAKEN THE 37:16.014 --> 37:17.115 BUS TO CHESTERFIELD AND HOPPED 37:17.181 --> 37:18.049 ON TO THE TRAIL IN CHESTERFIELD 37:18.116 --> 37:20.585 TO GET THERE, BUT YOU'RE RIGHT, 37:20.652 --> 37:21.953 IT COULD CERTAINLY BE 37:22.020 --> 37:22.487 PRIORITIZED. 37:22.553 --> 37:24.822 SOME PEOPLE WILL USE THE TRAIN 37:24.889 --> 37:28.826 AND THEY'LL TAKE THE TRAIN TO 37:28.893 --> 37:30.194 WASHINGTON, MISSOURI, AND THEN 37:30.261 --> 37:36.234 TRY AND GET TO THE TRAIL FROM 37:36.300 --> 37:37.835 THERE IF FOLKS DON'T WANT TO GET 37:37.902 --> 37:38.636 IN THE CAR. 37:38.703 --> 37:40.104 HOW HAVE YOU DONE IT, SARAH? 37:40.171 --> 37:42.407 >> UNFORTUNATELY, THERE'S NOT A 37:42.473 --> 37:43.541 GREAT CYCLING OR PEDESTRIAN 37:43.608 --> 37:45.677 ROUTE FROM THE CITY ITSELF, BUT 37:45.743 --> 37:46.878 YOU BRING UP A GOOD POINT WITH 37:46.944 --> 37:49.280 THE KATY TRAIL, WHAT A WONDERFUL 37:49.347 --> 37:52.050 ASSET IT IS FOR THE REGION AND 37:52.116 --> 37:55.286 WE DO KNOW, COMPETING WITH SITE 37:55.353 --> 37:56.554 SELECTORS, EVERYTHING FROM THE 37:56.621 --> 37:58.923 KATY TRAIL DOWN TO THESE SECOND 37:58.990 --> 38:00.391 BIKEWAYS ARE JUST IMPORTANT 38:00.458 --> 38:02.994 ASSETS SO I THINK AS YOU'RE 38:03.061 --> 38:04.028 MENTIONING, LINKING THEM 38:04.095 --> 38:05.263 TOGETHER WOULD BE A GREAT FUTURE 38:05.329 --> 38:05.530 PROJECT. 38:05.596 --> 38:06.698 >> HOW DO YOU DECIDE WHERE TO 38:06.764 --> 38:07.265 PUT THESE? 38:07.331 --> 38:08.766 IN OTHER WORDS, IS IT -- YOU 38:08.833 --> 38:10.134 TALK ABOUT THE IMPORTANCE OF 38:10.201 --> 38:12.336 ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, WHICH IS 38:12.403 --> 38:13.604 GREAT, BUT THESE -- IT'S SORT OF 38:13.671 --> 38:15.606 A CHICKEN AND AN EGG QUESTION. 38:15.673 --> 38:19.310 DO YOU LOOK FOR PLACES THAT HAVE 38:19.377 --> 38:21.746 ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT TO SUPPORT 38:21.813 --> 38:23.381 AND COVER SUCH AS LIKE FOR 38:23.448 --> 38:25.850 EXAMPLE WHEN THE NGA IS BUILT, 38:25.917 --> 38:27.118 YOU OBVIOUSLY WOULD HAVE A PLACE 38:27.185 --> 38:29.153 TO GO TO, OR DOES IT GO IN THE 38:29.220 --> 38:30.254 OTHER DIRECTION WHERE YOU JUST 38:30.321 --> 38:33.524 DECIDE WHERE IT NEEDS TO GO AND 38:33.591 --> 38:35.927 HOPE THAT DEVELOPMENT SPRINGS UP 38:35.993 --> 38:36.661 AROUND IT? 38:36.728 --> 38:39.797 >> RAY, IT REALLY BEGAN -- SO 38:39.864 --> 38:42.200 TRAILNET BEGAN THIS EFFORT IN 38:42.266 --> 38:42.467 2016. 38:42.533 --> 38:44.702 WE LAUNCHED THIS BOLD VISION FOR 38:44.769 --> 38:46.270 HOW DO WE CONNECT ST. LOUIS FOR 38:46.337 --> 38:48.239 BETTER AND SAFER WALKING AND 38:48.306 --> 38:48.473 BIKING. 38:48.539 --> 38:50.575 THE PLAN WAS CALLED CONNECTING 38:50.641 --> 38:51.075 ST. LOUIS. 38:51.142 --> 38:53.578 IT WASN'T FUNDED BY ANYONE 38:53.644 --> 38:56.114 EXCEPT TRAILNET MEMBERS, AND 38:56.180 --> 38:57.515 JUST THROUGH TRAILNET GENERAL 38:57.582 --> 38:59.117 FUNDRAISING TO DO THIS PROJECT. 38:59.183 --> 39:01.853 AND WE WERE ABLE TO PUT THE 39:01.919 --> 39:03.921 PEOPLE -- PUT THE PEOPLE'S IDEAS 39:03.988 --> 39:04.155 FIRST. 39:04.222 --> 39:05.690 WE WORKED WITH THE CITY OF 39:05.757 --> 39:06.124 ST. LOUIS. 39:06.190 --> 39:08.025 WE HAD EIGHT DIFFERENT 39:08.092 --> 39:09.961 DEPARTMENTS FROM THE CITY OF 39:10.027 --> 39:10.862 ST. LOUIS JOINING US. 39:10.928 --> 39:12.063 JASON HALL JOINED US ON ONE OF 39:12.130 --> 39:14.832 OUR COMMITTEES AS WELL, GREAT 39:14.899 --> 39:15.900 RIVERS GREENWAY. 39:15.967 --> 39:17.301 SOME OF THE UNIVERSITIES JOINED 39:17.368 --> 39:18.002 US. 39:18.069 --> 39:19.437 WE DIDN'T HAVE ANY BUSINESS 39:19.504 --> 39:20.371 INTERESTS IN THIS. 39:20.438 --> 39:22.173 IT WAS REALLY JUST ORGANIZATIONS 39:22.240 --> 39:23.307 LOOKING AT WHAT KIND OF 39:23.374 --> 39:24.742 INFRASTRUCTURE DO WE NEED AND 39:24.809 --> 39:28.513 WHERE DO PEOPLE NEED TO CONNECT 39:28.579 --> 39:31.382 FOR ACCESS TO TRANSIT AND TO 39:31.449 --> 39:31.983 OPPORTUNITIES. 39:32.049 --> 39:34.619 WE HAD OVER 4,000 RESPONDENTS TO 39:34.685 --> 39:36.320 HELP US SORT THROUGH WHERE ARE 39:36.387 --> 39:37.321 THESE OPPORTUNITY STREETS AND 39:37.388 --> 39:38.589 WHERE DO THEY EXIST. 39:38.656 --> 39:41.092 AND SO THROUGH THAT PROCESS, IT 39:41.159 --> 39:43.294 TOOK US ABOUT TWO YEARS. 39:43.361 --> 39:44.562 SEVERAL PROJECTS, SEVERAL 39:44.629 --> 39:46.864 STREETS CAME FORWARD. 39:46.931 --> 39:49.033 WE HAVE ABOUT 12 MILES OF 39:49.100 --> 39:53.037 CONNECTIONS THAT WE PROPOSED, 39:53.104 --> 39:54.372 AND THAT'S WHERE OUR PARTNERS 39:54.438 --> 39:55.740 LIKE GREATER ST. LOUIS, INC., 39:55.807 --> 39:58.442 CAME IN AND SAID, YOU KNOW WHAT. 39:58.509 --> 40:00.711 THIS CONNECTION HERE TO TOWER 40:00.778 --> 40:01.345 GROVE PARK IS SOMETHING THAT 40:01.412 --> 40:03.080 APPEALED TO THEM. 40:03.147 --> 40:05.149 SO I CAN LET SARAH TALK MORE 40:05.216 --> 40:06.684 ABOUT THAT, BUT CURRENTLY WE 40:06.751 --> 40:09.153 HAVE ABOUT 40% OF THE ROUTES WE 40:09.220 --> 40:11.455 PROPOSED EITHER FUNDED FOR 40:11.522 --> 40:12.723 FEDERAL CONSTRUCTION OR THEY'RE 40:12.790 --> 40:14.292 ABLE TO BE TAKEN UP BY ENTITIES 40:14.358 --> 40:16.694 WHO WOULD BE ABLE TO BUILD THEM. 40:16.761 --> 40:18.196 SO THE CITY OF ST. LOUIS MIGHT 40:18.262 --> 40:20.464 BE LEADING THE EFFORT, FOR 40:20.531 --> 40:22.800 INSTANCE, ON 20th STREET AND 40:22.867 --> 40:24.635 GREAT RIVERS GREENWAY ADOPTING A 40:24.702 --> 40:26.404 CONNECTION UP TO FAIRGROUNDS 40:26.470 --> 40:28.339 PARK AS WELL. 40:28.406 --> 40:29.740 SO IT'S REALLY AN IDEA THAT'S 40:29.807 --> 40:31.976 RESONATING. 40:32.043 --> 40:33.544 >> YEAH, PERFECT. 40:33.611 --> 40:34.412 SPEAKING SPECIFICALLY TO THE 40:34.478 --> 40:36.447 TOWER GROVE CONNECTOR, AGAIN, 40:36.514 --> 40:39.917 THAT'S A 1.4-MILE PROTECTED BIKE 40:39.984 --> 40:41.485 LANE FROM TOWER GROVE PARK ALL 40:41.552 --> 40:43.387 THE WAY UP TO THE GROVE. 40:43.454 --> 40:44.889 SO YOU ASK THE QUESTION, IS IT 40:44.956 --> 40:46.190 ABOUT ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, IS 40:46.257 --> 40:47.625 IT ABOUT NEEDS. 40:47.692 --> 40:49.360 THIS WAS ACTUALLY A REALLY 40:49.427 --> 40:50.761 WONDERFUL ROUTE BECAUSE IT 40:50.828 --> 40:52.463 ALREADY IS IN ONE OF THE MOST 40:52.530 --> 40:53.631 TRAVELED BIKE ROUTES IN THE 40:53.698 --> 40:53.831 CITY. 40:53.898 --> 40:57.368 A LOT OF FOLKS ARE USING THAT TO 40:57.435 --> 41:00.238 GET TO THEIR JOBS AT THE EJC 41:00.304 --> 41:02.707 CAMPUS OR TO CORTEX, SO YOU KIND 41:02.773 --> 41:04.175 OF ALREADY HAD A GOOD LEVEL OF 41:04.242 --> 41:05.843 TRAFFIC HAPPENING, SO PEOPLE 41:05.910 --> 41:07.812 WANTED TO SEE AN EVEN BETTER 41:07.879 --> 41:08.946 INFRASTRUCTURE IN PLACE. 41:09.013 --> 41:10.848 SO THEN WHAT WE ALSO LOVED ABOUT 41:10.915 --> 41:13.618 ROUTE IS YOU'RE CONNECTING TOWER 41:13.684 --> 41:15.286 GROVE PARK TO THE BOTANICAL 41:15.353 --> 41:15.586 GARDEN. 41:15.653 --> 41:18.256 ALL THE NEW LITTLE SHOPS THAT 41:18.322 --> 41:21.993 ARE POPPING UP ON BOTANICAL 41:22.059 --> 41:24.028 HEIGHTS, YOU HAVE ENDO AND UNION 41:24.095 --> 41:26.831 LOAFERS AND IT'S BRAND NEW ICE 41:26.898 --> 41:29.300 CREAM SANDWICH PLACE, ALL THESE 41:29.367 --> 41:31.435 LITTLE INTERSECTION AND THEN YOU 41:31.502 --> 41:33.871 GO FURTHER NORTH ITEM ALONG 41:33.938 --> 41:35.473 VANDEVENTER, IT'S JUST RIPE WITH 41:35.539 --> 41:35.873 POTENTIAL. 41:35.940 --> 41:37.041 YOU ALREADY HAVE ROCKWELL 41:37.108 --> 41:38.376 BREWERY RIGHT THERE, AND THEN 41:38.442 --> 41:40.144 THERE'S ALL THESE OTHER IDEAS 41:40.211 --> 41:41.679 FOR DEVELOPMENT THAT WHEN YOU 41:41.746 --> 41:43.047 ADD SOMETHING LIKE A CYCLE TRACK 41:43.114 --> 41:46.050 TO IT, IT JUST GETS PEOPLE EVEN 41:46.117 --> 41:47.852 MORE EXCITED AND THEY WANT TO 41:47.919 --> 41:49.553 INVEST AND BE A PART OF THIS 41:49.620 --> 41:50.721 MOMENTUM THAT'S HAPPENING. 41:50.788 --> 41:52.556 >> AND THE RESEARCH SHOWS THAT 41:52.623 --> 41:53.557 THEY SPEND MORE MONEY. 41:53.624 --> 41:55.826 SO PEOPLE ON BIKES STOP MORE 41:55.893 --> 41:57.628 FREQUENTLY AND THEY SPEND MORE 41:57.695 --> 41:59.130 MONEY BECAUSE THEY'RE SHOPPING 41:59.196 --> 42:00.364 MORE FREQUENTLY AND GETTING TO 42:00.431 --> 42:02.099 KNOW THINGS ON A HUMAN SCALE. 42:02.166 --> 42:05.736 SO THEY'LL SEE, YOU KNOW, WHAT'S 42:05.803 --> 42:08.973 ON SALE AT THE SHOPS BECAUSE 42:09.040 --> 42:10.207 THEY'RE MOVING SLOWLY ENOUGH TO 42:10.274 --> 42:11.876 SEE ALL THAT AS THEY GO THROUGH. 42:11.943 --> 42:15.880 >> SEVERAL YEARS AGO, THERE WERE 42:15.947 --> 42:17.281 COMPETING BICYCLE RENTAL PLACES 42:17.348 --> 42:18.516 WHERE YOU'D SEE THESE BIKES 42:18.582 --> 42:19.784 LAYING AROUND ALL THE TIME. 42:19.850 --> 42:22.887 I MEAN, ONE WAS LIME GREEN AND 42:22.954 --> 42:23.955 ANOTHER WAS SOMETHING ELSE, AND 42:24.021 --> 42:27.358 I THOUGHT, WELL, THIS IS KIND OF 42:27.425 --> 42:27.725 EXCITING. 42:27.792 --> 42:30.428 MORE PEOPLE BICYCLING, AND ALL 42:30.494 --> 42:32.663 OF A SUDDEN, THEY WERE GONE. 42:32.730 --> 42:34.865 WHAT HAPPENED TO THAT? 42:34.932 --> 42:36.167 >> I MISS THOSE BIKES. 42:36.233 --> 42:37.668 BUT GO AHEAD, CINDY. 42:37.735 --> 42:39.670 >> WELL, I TELL YOU WHAT. 42:39.737 --> 42:41.105 I'VE ALWAYS HEARD REALLY GREAT 42:41.172 --> 42:42.606 THINGS WHEN PEOPLE SAW THE BIKE 42:42.673 --> 42:44.408 SHARE BIKES, EVEN THE CRABBY 42:44.475 --> 42:51.349 PEOPLE WHO WOULD LIKE, YOU BIKE 42:51.415 --> 42:52.683 PEOPLE, WERE EXCITED ABOUT THE 42:52.750 --> 42:54.185 BIKE SHARE BIKES. 42:54.251 --> 42:56.120 WHAT SEEMED TO HAPPEN IS IT LAID 42:56.187 --> 42:58.055 THE GROUNDWORK FOR THE SCOOTERS, 42:58.122 --> 42:58.589 WHICH ARE EASIER FOR THE 42:58.656 --> 42:59.223 COMPANIES TO PLACE. 42:59.290 --> 43:00.458 THEY CAN PUT MORE OF THE 43:00.524 --> 43:01.826 SCOOTERS OUT AND YOU DON'T HAVE 43:01.892 --> 43:04.628 TO BE ABLE TO RIDE A BIKE. 43:04.695 --> 43:06.097 SOME MORE DENSE CITIES ARE 43:06.163 --> 43:08.632 SEEING ELECTRIC BIKES AS PART OF 43:08.699 --> 43:10.534 THE ASSET -- THE RESOURCES THAT 43:10.601 --> 43:12.236 ARE COMING TO THEIR CITIES. 43:12.303 --> 43:14.338 ST. LOUIS YET HASN'T BEEN ON 43:14.405 --> 43:17.641 THAT LIST TO GET ELECTRIC BIKES 43:17.708 --> 43:18.776 INCLUDED AS PART OF THE 43:18.843 --> 43:19.043 OFFERINGS. 43:19.110 --> 43:20.644 I'M SURE YOU SAW THE SCOERS 43:20.711 --> 43:22.079 COMING BACK ON THE STREETS AND 43:22.146 --> 43:24.415 SCOOTERS, YOU KNOW, WE CALL THEM 43:24.482 --> 43:25.950 BIKE LANES, BUT THESE LANES, 43:26.017 --> 43:29.453 THEY'RE MULTI-USE LANES FOR 43:29.520 --> 43:32.556 PEOPLE USING MOTORIZED DEVICES 43:32.623 --> 43:35.693 LIKE WHEELCHAIRS AND ALSO FOR 43:35.760 --> 43:35.960 SCOOTERS. 43:36.027 --> 43:39.663 SO THE BIKES, I THINK THAT THEY 43:39.730 --> 43:40.898 BECAME JUST TOO EXPENSIVE FOR 43:40.965 --> 43:42.400 THE COMPANIES TO KEEP UP AND 43:42.466 --> 43:44.568 THEY CAN MAKE MORE MONEY ON THE 43:44.635 --> 43:44.835 SCOOTERS. 43:44.902 --> 43:47.538 >> ARE THE BICYCLES WORKING 43:47.605 --> 43:47.805 ANYWHERE? 43:47.872 --> 43:49.340 I MEAN, THE RENTAL BIKES THAT 43:49.407 --> 43:50.775 SEEMED LIKE WAS SUCH A GROWING 43:50.841 --> 43:51.108 THING? 43:51.175 --> 43:53.444 >> WELL, IN INDIANAPOLIS THEY'RE 43:53.511 --> 43:55.146 WORKING GREAT AROUND THE 43:55.212 --> 43:56.914 INDIANAPOLIS CULTURAL TRAIL. 43:56.981 --> 43:59.950 THEY'RE STILL USING THEM IN 44:00.017 --> 44:01.952 KANSAS CITY, BIKE WALK KC, 44:02.019 --> 44:03.487 SIMILAR TO TRAILNET. 44:03.554 --> 44:06.424 THEY ACTUALLY RUN IT WITH SOME 44:06.490 --> 44:07.858 FEDERAL SUPPORT FOR FUNDING, FOR 44:07.925 --> 44:10.327 DOING THAT. 44:10.394 --> 44:12.163 YOU'RE GOING TO SEE THEM IN D.C. 44:12.229 --> 44:12.763 AND CHICAGO. 44:12.830 --> 44:15.533 IN D.C., YOU'RE GOING TO SEE A 44:15.599 --> 44:17.101 CAR THAT'S GOING TO TAKE -- 44:17.168 --> 44:19.537 >> WHY CAN'T WE HAVE THAT HERE? 44:19.603 --> 44:21.038 WHY CAN'T WE HAVE NICE THINGS? 44:21.105 --> 44:23.040 >> I THINK BILL WANTS TO RENT A 44:23.107 --> 44:23.240 BIKE. 44:23.307 --> 44:26.177 >> YEAH, HAVING A SMOOTH 44:26.243 --> 44:27.344 TRANSITION FROM USING TRANSIT TO 44:27.411 --> 44:31.615 BEING ABLE TO USE SCOOTER OR A 44:31.682 --> 44:33.250 BIKE, I DON'T WANT TO SPEAK FOR 44:33.317 --> 44:35.386 CMT, BUT I KNOW -- I MEAN FOR 44:35.453 --> 44:36.587 METRO TRANSIT, I KNOW THEY'RE 44:36.654 --> 44:38.622 NOT AGAINST IT AND THOSE ARE 44:38.689 --> 44:40.825 CERTAINLY ADVANCES THAT WILL 44:40.891 --> 44:42.359 MAKE THE SYSTEM EASIER FOR THAT 44:42.426 --> 44:43.761 LAST MILE CONNECTION. 44:43.828 --> 44:46.497 >> AND I THINK THE OTHER PIECE, 44:46.564 --> 44:48.365 TOO, AS WE BUILD OUT THE BIKE 44:48.432 --> 44:50.301 NETWORK AND WE GET MORE CYCLISTS 44:50.367 --> 44:52.069 OUT THERE, THERE'S ALWAYS -- YOU 44:52.136 --> 44:53.437 KNOW, A LOT OF PEOPLE THAT DO 44:53.504 --> 44:54.572 BIKE A LOT IN ST. LOUIS WILL 44:54.638 --> 44:57.374 TELL YOU THERE'S A LOT OF 44:57.441 --> 44:59.110 OPPORTUNITIES FOR CONSISTS OF 44:59.176 --> 44:59.443 CARS. 44:59.510 --> 45:00.878 IT REALLY IS SOMETHING THAT 45:00.945 --> 45:02.646 NEEDS TO BE MORE NORMALIZED FOR 45:02.713 --> 45:04.748 LACK OF A BETTER TERM, FOR 45:04.815 --> 45:06.083 PEOPLE RIDING BIKES AROUND. 45:06.150 --> 45:07.785 YOU SAY YOU CAN'T HAVE NICE 45:07.852 --> 45:09.420 THINGS AND THEN PEOPLE TAKE CARE 45:09.487 --> 45:10.988 OF THEM AND THEY CONTINUE TO USE 45:11.055 --> 45:13.023 THEM. 45:13.090 --> 45:15.025 >> YOU MENTIONED JASON HALL 45:15.092 --> 45:15.860 EARLIER, WHO OF COURSE, IS THE 45:15.926 --> 45:17.761 CEO OF GREATER ST. LOUIS, INC. 45:17.828 --> 45:19.196 I ASSUME WHEN HE WAS TAKING PART 45:19.263 --> 45:21.398 IN THIS, THAT WAS PART OF ARTS 45:21.465 --> 45:23.767 TO THE PARK, CORRECT? 45:23.834 --> 45:26.137 >> YES, I HAD WORKED UNDER JASON 45:26.203 --> 45:27.705 AS ARCH TO THE PARK AND WE 45:27.771 --> 45:30.708 KICKED OFF THIS PROJECT AND 45:30.774 --> 45:31.742 CARRIED IT FORWARD. 45:31.809 --> 45:33.310 >> IS IT THE PRIVATE SECTOR THAT 45:33.377 --> 45:35.179 ARCH TO THE PARK IS INVESTING IT 45:35.246 --> 45:38.115 OR IS IT MORE OF A COMMUTER -- 45:38.182 --> 45:38.949 IN OTHER WORDS, I DON'T KNOW HOW 45:39.016 --> 45:40.017 MUCH INVESTMENT IS INVOLVED IN 45:40.084 --> 45:41.085 BUILDING THESE AND WHETHER THE 45:41.152 --> 45:42.286 PRIVATE SECTOR IS INVOLVED OR 45:42.353 --> 45:43.854 THE PUBLIC OR BOTH IN MAKING 45:43.921 --> 45:45.756 DECISIONS WHERE TO INVEST IN 45:45.823 --> 45:48.592 THESE TRAILS AND SO FORTH. 45:48.659 --> 45:50.227 >> YEAH, GREAT QUESTION. 45:50.294 --> 45:52.930 SO BECAUSE THIS PROJECT 45:52.997 --> 45:53.898 INITIALLY LAUNCHED WITH -- 45:53.964 --> 45:56.200 EXCUSE ME, WITH APPLYING TO 45:56.267 --> 45:58.569 FEDERAL GRANT MONEY, SO THIS IS 45:58.636 --> 46:00.938 VERY MUCH A PRIVATE-PUBLIC 46:01.005 --> 46:02.439 PARTNERSHIP, SO THIS PARTICULAR 46:02.506 --> 46:03.541 STRETCH, THE TOWER GROVE 46:03.607 --> 46:05.843 CONNECTOR, DOES HAVE A 46:05.910 --> 46:07.144 $5.6 MILLION FEDERAL GRANT THAT 46:07.211 --> 46:09.180 IS GOING TOWARDS CONSTRUCTION. 46:09.246 --> 46:11.348 BUT WE HAD AS ARCH TO PARK AND 46:11.415 --> 46:13.717 NOW GREATER ST. LOUIS, INC., HAS 46:13.784 --> 46:16.020 ALSO COMMITTED FUNDING FOR THE 46:16.086 --> 46:17.688 PRIVATE MATCH IN ADDITION TO THE 46:17.755 --> 46:19.623 APPLICATION PROCESS, IN ADDITION 46:19.690 --> 46:20.824 TO THE ENGINEERING AND DESIGN 46:20.891 --> 46:22.326 PHASE OF THIS PROJECT. 46:22.393 --> 46:26.397 SO, YOU KNOW, WE ARE ONE OF MANY 46:26.463 --> 46:28.132 PARTNERS THAT ARE PARTICIPATING 46:28.199 --> 46:29.733 IN THE PROJECT, BUT WE ARE ONE 46:29.800 --> 46:31.202 OF THE LEAD FUNDERS TO MAKE IT 46:31.268 --> 46:31.602 HAPPEN. 46:31.669 --> 46:33.003 BECAUSE, AGAIN, WE RECOGNIZE HOW 46:33.070 --> 46:34.238 IMPORTANT IT IS FOR OUR REGION 46:34.305 --> 46:36.273 TO GROW, TO HAVE THESE KINDS OF 46:36.340 --> 46:36.574 AMENITIES. 46:36.640 --> 46:40.611 >> CAN I SAY, HOW MUCH IS THAT 46:40.678 --> 46:41.078 INVESTMENT? 46:41.145 --> 46:43.347 >> ALL IN, IT'S -- I'M GOING 46:43.414 --> 46:45.749 TO -- I THINK IT'S ABOUT 46:45.816 --> 46:47.051 2.6 MILLION. 46:47.117 --> 46:48.586 >> FROM THE PRIVATE -- FROM ARCH 46:48.652 --> 46:50.754 TO PARK OR GREATER ST. LOUIS? 46:50.821 --> 46:51.488 >> CORRECT. 46:51.555 --> 46:52.890 >> I GUESS IT -- OKAY. 46:52.957 --> 46:54.658 >> I JUST WANT TO SAY THAT EARLY 46:54.725 --> 46:56.894 ON WHEN ARCH TO THE PARK 46:56.961 --> 46:59.163 EMBRACED THIS PROJECT, THEY PAID 46:59.230 --> 47:00.698 FOR AN ENGINEERING STUDY TO JUST 47:00.764 --> 47:03.467 MAKE US READY TO APPLY FOR THE 47:03.534 --> 47:04.702 FUNDS THROUGH THE CITY. 47:04.768 --> 47:05.636 SO THE CITY OF ST. LOUIS HAS 47:05.703 --> 47:07.137 BEEN A GREAT PARTNER WORKING 47:07.204 --> 47:08.639 THROUGH THIS AND WE'VE HAD 47:08.706 --> 47:11.008 ALDERMEN WHO DEDICATED SOME OF 47:11.075 --> 47:12.176 THEIR FUNDING TOWARD GETTING 47:12.243 --> 47:14.645 THIS DONE, SO MANY PARTNERS HAVE 47:14.712 --> 47:16.046 COME TOGETHER TO REALLY MAKE 47:16.113 --> 47:18.048 THIS A SUCCESS. 47:18.115 --> 47:20.217 >> YEAH, AND JUST TO REITERATE 47:20.284 --> 47:21.385 AGAIN, THE CITY OF ST. LOUIS, 47:21.452 --> 47:22.820 THAT'S HOW WE -- THEY'RE THE 47:22.886 --> 47:24.355 MAIN PARTNER ON THIS BECAUSE WE 47:24.421 --> 47:27.224 CAN'T APPLY FOR FUNDS FROM THE 47:27.291 --> 47:28.092 FEDERAL GOVERNMENT WITHOUT THE 47:28.158 --> 47:29.326 PARTNERSHIP OF THE CITY, SO THEY 47:29.393 --> 47:31.061 REALLY HAVE BEEN ADVOCATES IN 47:31.128 --> 47:32.329 WANTING TO SEE THESE KINDS OF 47:32.396 --> 47:34.698 PROJECTS MOVE FORWARD ALL 47:34.765 --> 47:36.066 THROUGHOUT. 47:36.133 --> 47:39.570 >> DO YOU THINK WE HAVE MORE 47:39.637 --> 47:41.038 HOSTILITY FROM DRIVERS TOWARD 47:41.105 --> 47:42.840 BICYCLES IN THIS CITY THAN IN 47:42.906 --> 47:43.440 MOST CITIES? 47:43.507 --> 47:46.143 I MEAN, YOU KNOW, BECAUSE 47:46.210 --> 47:47.144 WHENEVER THERE'S A CONVERSATION 47:47.211 --> 47:50.981 ABOUT BICYCLISTS, SOME GRUMPY 47:51.048 --> 47:53.250 OLD GUY USUALLY WILL SAY, OH, 47:53.317 --> 47:56.654 THOSE BICYCLISTS, THEY'RE ON 47:56.720 --> 47:59.223 CLAYTON ROAD, TAKING UP AN 47:59.290 --> 47:59.690 ENTIRE LANE. 47:59.757 --> 48:01.292 AND IF YOU SAY, SIR, WITH EVER 48:01.358 --> 48:04.395 TO SHARE THE ROAD, PEOPLE GET 48:04.461 --> 48:05.529 UPSET AND COMPLAIN ABOUT 48:05.596 --> 48:07.998 BICYCLISTS. 48:08.065 --> 48:10.901 IS THAT COMMON EVERYWHERE OR IS 48:10.968 --> 48:12.670 THAT MORE PREVALENT HERE? 48:12.736 --> 48:15.706 >> CAN WE EMPHASIZE, WE ARE NOT 48:15.773 --> 48:17.474 THE GRUMPY OLD GUYS. 48:17.541 --> 48:19.576 YOU JUST PUT IT -- 48:19.643 --> 48:21.712 >> YOU'RE NOT EVEN THE OLD GUYS. 48:21.779 --> 48:23.080 STILL A YOUNG GUY. 48:23.147 --> 48:25.149 >> I THINK YOU'RE KIND OF 48:25.215 --> 48:26.583 SORTING OUT THERE THINGS. 48:26.650 --> 48:28.218 THE ACTIVITY YOU SEE A CLAYTON 48:28.285 --> 48:29.853 ROAD, THAT'S OFTEN ON THE 48:29.920 --> 48:30.721 WEEKENDS, RIGHT? 48:30.788 --> 48:30.988 >> YES. 48:31.055 --> 48:34.291 >> AND YOU MIGHT SEE LARGER 48:34.358 --> 48:37.027 GROUPS OF FOLKS RECREATING 48:37.094 --> 48:37.461 AND -- 48:37.528 --> 48:38.829 >> SOMETIMES YOU JUST SEE TWO 48:38.896 --> 48:40.431 PEOPLE AND THEY'LL BE RIDING 48:40.497 --> 48:41.799 ALONG IN THE RIGHT-HAND LANE, 48:41.865 --> 48:42.966 BUT NOT SINGLE FILE. 48:43.033 --> 48:45.302 SO PEOPLE DO HAVE TO GO AROUND 48:45.369 --> 48:45.502 THEM. 48:45.569 --> 48:48.105 I MEAN, I'M -- I'M NOT 48:48.172 --> 48:51.642 IMPATIENT, BUT MANY PEOPLE ARE. 48:51.709 --> 48:52.476 >> YES. 48:52.543 --> 48:54.244 >> TWO PEOPLE SIDE BY SIDE 48:54.311 --> 48:56.347 PROBABLY TAKE LESS ROOM THAN AN 48:56.413 --> 48:56.547 SUV. 48:56.613 --> 48:58.549 >> OH, ABSOLUTELY, BUT THEY GO 48:58.615 --> 48:59.583 MUCH SLOWER THAN AN SUV. 48:59.650 --> 49:01.352 >> I WOULD SAY, I'M A BIKE 49:01.418 --> 49:02.586 COMMUTER, SO I LIVE IN YOUR 49:02.653 --> 49:05.422 NEIGHBORHOOD, BILL, AND I BIKE 49:05.489 --> 49:06.390 TO DOWNTOWN ST. LOUIS AND I 49:06.457 --> 49:08.392 WOULD SAY OVER THE LAST SEVEN 49:08.459 --> 49:11.295 YEARS, IN BIKING TO WORK, MAYBE 49:11.362 --> 49:12.730 TWO OR THREE TIMES I MIGHT HAVE 49:12.796 --> 49:14.131 BEEN YELLED AT AND TOLD TO GET 49:14.198 --> 49:14.832 ON THE SIDEWALK. 49:14.898 --> 49:16.033 >> THAT'S NOT SO BAD. 49:16.100 --> 49:17.868 >> BUT NOT BY BILL. 49:17.935 --> 49:18.702 NOT BY BILL. 49:18.769 --> 49:20.471 >> THAT'S NOT THAT BAD. 49:20.537 --> 49:22.840 >> I DON'T THINK IT WAS BILL. 49:22.906 --> 49:25.476 >> OKAY. 49:25.542 --> 49:26.844 NO, IT WASN'T ME. 49:26.910 --> 49:28.946 >> HE'S MORE LIKELY TO SAY GET 49:29.012 --> 49:29.380 OFF MY LINE. 49:29.446 --> 49:31.582 >> AT TRAILNET, WE ALSO WORK ON 49:31.648 --> 49:33.617 POLICY, AND SO WE HELP TO 49:33.684 --> 49:34.852 ESTABLISH AN ANTI-HARASSMENT 49:34.918 --> 49:37.454 POLICY SO THAT CYCLISTS CANNOT 49:37.521 --> 49:38.122 BE HARASSED. 49:38.188 --> 49:40.157 SOMEBODY CAN BE PROSECUTED FOR 49:40.224 --> 49:40.891 HARASSING A CYCLIST. 49:40.958 --> 49:41.525 >> REALLY? 49:41.592 --> 49:43.227 >> YOU KNOW, THROWING A PIECE OF 49:43.293 --> 49:46.130 PIZZA AT THEM HAPPENED TO ONE OF 49:46.196 --> 49:48.065 MY INTERNS, BUT WE DID ESTABLISH 49:48.132 --> 49:51.201 THAT BECAUSE WE WANT PEOPLE TO 49:51.268 --> 49:53.437 FEEL SAFE USING TRANSIT, WALKING 49:53.504 --> 49:54.605 BIKING, USING OTHER FORMS OF 49:54.671 --> 49:56.073 TRANSIT AND TRANSPORTATION AND 49:56.140 --> 49:58.275 NOT BEING DISCRIMINATED AGAINST. 49:58.342 --> 50:02.179 WOMEN FIND THAT A LOT, THAT THEY 50:02.246 --> 50:05.582 CAN BE A TARGET WHILE THEY'RE 50:05.649 --> 50:08.552 WALKING OR BIKING, AND SO WE 50:08.619 --> 50:10.020 HELPED ESTABLISH THAT POLICY IN 50:10.087 --> 50:10.421 ST. LOUIS. 50:10.487 --> 50:11.822 >> WELL, CINDY, IF YOU'RE A 50:11.889 --> 50:14.324 NEIGHBOR OF MINE, I TAKE IT YOU 50:14.391 --> 50:16.026 BICYCLE A LOT IN FOREST PARK? 50:16.093 --> 50:16.560 >> ABSOLUTELY. 50:16.627 --> 50:17.261 >> RIGHT. 50:17.327 --> 50:18.862 I MEAN, WHAT A GREAT PLACE THAT 50:18.929 --> 50:20.697 IS. 50:20.764 --> 50:23.033 >> AND PART OF THAT IS THAT IT'S 50:23.100 --> 50:24.601 PROTECTED, TOO, RIGHT? 50:24.668 --> 50:26.103 BOTH FOREST PARK HAS PROTECT TD 50:26.170 --> 50:28.505 LANES AND THIS NEW ONE WITH 50:28.572 --> 50:30.073 TOWER GROVE CONNECTOR IS 50:30.140 --> 50:31.041 PROTECTED TO HELP REDUCE SOME OF 50:31.108 --> 50:33.143 THE CONFLICT WITH CARS, BUT THE 50:33.210 --> 50:35.012 OTHER PIECE THAT'S KIND OF 50:35.078 --> 50:35.746 EXCITING ABOUT THESE NEW 50:35.813 --> 50:37.181 INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS, NOT 50:37.247 --> 50:38.782 ONLY SIT BETTER FOR BIKES AND 50:38.849 --> 50:40.417 PEDS, IT'S BETTER FOR CARS TOO 50:40.484 --> 50:41.585 BECAUSE WE'RE ALSO UPGRADING 50:41.652 --> 50:42.419 SOME OF THE SIGNALS. 50:42.486 --> 50:44.555 YOU'RE NO LONGER SITTING AT RED 50:44.621 --> 50:45.923 LIGHTS EVERY TIME YOU HIT A 50:45.989 --> 50:47.691 LIGHT, BUT THEY'RE GOING TO BE 50:47.758 --> 50:49.193 COORDINATED TO HELP WITH THE 50:49.259 --> 50:51.195 FLOW OF TRAFFIC AND REDUCE ANY 50:51.261 --> 50:52.129 IDLING TO HELP IMPROVE THE AIR 50:52.196 --> 50:52.930 QUALITY AS WELL. 50:52.996 --> 50:54.598 I THINK, YOU KNOW, WHILE WE 50:54.665 --> 50:56.733 FOCUS A LOT ON THE BIKE/PED, IT 50:56.800 --> 50:58.101 ACTUALLY DOES HAVE IMPROVEMENTS 50:58.168 --> 51:00.804 FOR CARS AS WELL. 51:00.871 --> 51:02.005 >> OKAY. 51:02.072 --> 51:08.312 >> AND IT'S WONDERFUL WORK. 51:08.378 --> 51:10.180 HAVE YOU EVER QUAUN IF I TI FIDE 51:10.247 --> 51:12.049 THE IMPACT -- QUANTIFIED THE 51:12.115 --> 51:13.217 IMPACT YOU'RE HAVING? 51:13.283 --> 51:14.485 I DON'T KNOW HOW YOU MEASURE HOW 51:14.551 --> 51:17.721 MANY PEOPLE ARE CYCLING, BUT 51:17.788 --> 51:21.091 THERE IS A WAY TO DO THAT, TO 51:21.158 --> 51:24.661 SAY WE HAVE THIS MANY MORE 51:24.728 --> 51:25.729 CYCLISTS THAN WE DID? 51:25.796 --> 51:28.465 >> THERE'S A VARIETY OF WAYS WE 51:28.532 --> 51:28.832 MEASURE. 51:28.899 --> 51:30.834 ONE OF THOSE IS APPLYING TO 51:30.901 --> 51:32.936 BECOME A BIKE FRIENDLY STEP. 51:33.003 --> 51:34.805 ST. LOUIS HAS A SILVER LEVEL, 51:34.872 --> 51:36.440 THEY MOVED UP FROM BRONZE AND 51:36.507 --> 51:38.041 WORKING TOWARD A GOLD LEVEL 51:38.108 --> 51:39.843 RECOGNITION OR PLATINUM. 51:39.910 --> 51:43.013 WE ALSO -- TRAILNET HOSTS, EACH 51:43.080 --> 51:45.182 YEAR WE DO A BIKE COUNT A 51:45.249 --> 51:46.650 BIKE/PED COUNT IN SEPTEMBER, SO 51:46.717 --> 51:48.952 WE'LL SPEND TWO DAYS OUT THERE 51:49.019 --> 51:50.153 COUNTING PEOPLE WALKING AND 51:50.220 --> 51:51.655 BIKING AT VARIOUS LOCATIONS. 51:51.722 --> 51:53.357 WE SECURE A BURCH OF VOLUNTEERS 51:53.423 --> 51:55.192 AND -- A BUNCH OF VOLUNTEERS AND 51:55.259 --> 51:57.961 YOU'LL SEE US OUT THERE WITH OUR 51:58.028 --> 51:59.363 CLIPBOARDS LOOKING NOSY AND 51:59.429 --> 52:00.898 COUNTING PEOPLE WALKING AND 52:00.964 --> 52:02.466 BIKING SO WE CAN GET A BETTER 52:02.533 --> 52:04.167 INDICATION WITH OUR OWN DATA OF 52:04.234 --> 52:06.136 HOW TRAVELED THESE AREAS ARE. 52:06.203 --> 52:07.871 AND WE CAN ALSO COMPARE IT TO 52:07.938 --> 52:09.106 CRAFT DATA. 52:09.172 --> 52:10.707 WE ALSO HAVE A LOT OF CRASH DATA 52:10.774 --> 52:12.743 ON WHERE WE'RE SEEING MORE 52:12.809 --> 52:14.978 CRASHES THAT ARE FATAL FOR 52:15.045 --> 52:17.948 PEDESTRIANS AND CYCLISTS, TO 52:18.015 --> 52:19.283 HELP THE CITY PRIORITIZE WHERE 52:19.349 --> 52:21.485 THEY PUT IN IMPROVEMENTS. 52:21.552 --> 52:22.219 >> OKAY. 52:22.286 --> 52:24.755 SARAH, A MINUTE AGO YOU 52:24.821 --> 52:26.323 MENTIONED SOMETHING ABOUT 52:26.390 --> 52:27.858 TRAFFIC LIGHTS, THAT THEY'RE 52:27.925 --> 52:31.395 BEING TIMED BETTER OR SOMETHING. 52:31.461 --> 52:32.829 WHERE DO YOU STAND ON BICYCLISTS 52:32.896 --> 52:35.332 WHO COME UP TO A RED LIGHT AND 52:35.399 --> 52:37.768 LOOK AND MAKE SURE NOBODY'S 52:37.834 --> 52:39.036 COMING, BUT THEN CROSS. 52:39.102 --> 52:41.171 I MEAN, I LOOK AT IT AND I THINK 52:41.238 --> 52:42.339 THAT'S PROBABLY A SAFE THING TO 52:42.406 --> 52:44.241 DO, BUT A LOT OF PEOPLE SAY 52:44.308 --> 52:46.209 THOSE DARN CYCLISTS, THEY DON'T 52:46.276 --> 52:48.579 PAY ATTENTION TO THE RULES OF 52:48.645 --> 52:50.080 THE ROAD. 52:50.147 --> 52:51.915 WHERE ARE YOU ON THAT? 52:51.982 --> 52:54.151 >> IT'S FUNNY WE HAD A PUBLIC 52:54.217 --> 52:55.485 OPEN HOUSE ON THE TOWER GROVE 52:55.552 --> 52:57.187 CONNECTOR YESTERDAY AND I HAD A 52:57.254 --> 52:58.555 GENTLEMAN COME IN, HE WAS AN 52:58.622 --> 53:02.359 AVID CYCLIST AND HE WAS VERY 53:02.426 --> 53:04.361 ADAMANT THAT IT WAS VERY 53:04.428 --> 53:05.896 IMPORTANT FOR CYCLISTS TO FOLLOW 53:05.963 --> 53:06.997 ALL TRAFFIC RULES BECAUSE AS 53:07.064 --> 53:09.232 SOON AS PEOPLE START BREAKING 53:09.299 --> 53:10.400 THEM, THAT'S WHEN ACCIDENTS 53:10.467 --> 53:13.270 HAPPEN AND PEOPLE GET UPSET. 53:13.337 --> 53:15.038 IT REALLY IS BEST PRACTICE TO 53:15.105 --> 53:16.173 FOLLOW TRAFFIC RULES EVEN THOUGH 53:16.239 --> 53:17.341 IT DOES LOOK CAREER. 53:17.407 --> 53:19.009 DO I FOLLOW THAT EVERY TIME, 53:19.076 --> 53:20.544 I'M -- YOU KNOW. 53:20.611 --> 53:22.579 >> ACTUALLY, THERE IS A STATUTE 53:22.646 --> 53:24.348 FOR A BICYCLIST THAT YOU CAN 53:24.414 --> 53:26.583 STOP FOR A DEAD -- IF A RED 53:26.650 --> 53:29.186 LIGHT ISN'T REGISTERING YOU AS A 53:29.252 --> 53:30.587 CYCLIST, SO KIND OF A FUZZY 53:30.654 --> 53:32.589 AREA, BUT LET'S SAY IT'S ONE OF 53:32.656 --> 53:34.157 THOSE LIGHTS THAT ONLY DETECTS 53:34.224 --> 53:37.728 CARS AND THE LIGHT DOESN'T TURN, 53:37.794 --> 53:39.763 LIKE AT JEFFERSON AND LOCUST, IT 53:39.830 --> 53:41.665 WON'T REGISTER YOU AS A CYCLIST, 53:41.732 --> 53:43.600 SO YOU WON'T GET THE LIGHT. 53:43.667 --> 53:46.069 AND SO THERE IS A LAW THAT 53:46.136 --> 53:48.605 CYCLIST GO THROUGH A DEAD RED BY 53:48.672 --> 53:50.073 COMING TO A STOP. 53:50.140 --> 53:50.807 IF THE RED LIGHT DOESN'T 53:50.874 --> 53:53.910 RECOGNIZE THEM, THEY CAN GO 53:53.977 --> 53:54.611 THROUGH IT. 53:54.678 --> 53:55.178 SO YEAH. 53:55.245 --> 53:56.880 >> NOW WE KNOW. 53:56.947 --> 53:57.714 >> YEAH. 53:57.781 --> 53:58.649 IT IS LEGAL IF IT'S NOT 53:58.715 --> 54:00.984 REGISTERING YOU. 54:01.051 --> 54:02.653 >> WELL, I CAN SEE WHERE IT'S 54:02.719 --> 54:04.187 EVEN A SAFE THING TO DO 54:04.254 --> 54:04.488 SOMETIMES. 54:04.554 --> 54:08.025 I SEE A BICYCLIST COME UP AND HE 54:08.091 --> 54:10.460 OR SHE KNOWS THAT IN A FEW 54:10.527 --> 54:11.428 MINUTES SOMEBODY MIGHT BE COMING 54:11.495 --> 54:13.030 DOWN, BUT RIGHT NOW IT'S CLEAR, 54:13.096 --> 54:14.097 BUT THE DRIVER SITTING THERE 54:14.164 --> 54:15.165 NEXT TO HIM OR HER -- 54:15.232 --> 54:16.833 >> WELL, IF A DRIVER WAS THERE 54:16.900 --> 54:23.106 WITH THE CYCLIST, THAT DOESN'T 54:23.173 --> 54:23.440 QUALIFY. 54:23.507 --> 54:25.409 I'M SAYING IF THE CYCLIST -- 54:25.475 --> 54:26.576 >> I UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU'RE 54:26.643 --> 54:26.810 SAYING. 54:26.877 --> 54:28.445 >> WE'RE OUT OF TIME, RUNNING 54:28.512 --> 54:29.579 OUT OF TIME. 54:29.646 --> 54:31.348 REALLY QUICKLY, WHERE CAN PEOPLE 54:31.415 --> 54:32.516 FIND THESE RULES OF THE ROAD? 54:32.582 --> 54:35.652 CAN YOU TELL US IN TEN SECONDS? 54:35.719 --> 54:37.487 >> YOU CAN ABSOLUTELY FIND THEM 54:37.554 --> 54:41.491 ON TRAILNET'S WEBSITE AT 54:41.558 --> 54:41.825 TRAILNET.ORG. 54:41.892 --> 54:45.262 >> ALL THE RULES OF CYCLING? 54:45.328 --> 54:48.065 WE WANT TO THANK YOU, SARAH 54:48.131 --> 54:49.900 ARNOSKY OF GREATER ST. LOUIS, 54:49.966 --> 54:51.234 INC., AND CINDY MENSE OF 54:51.301 --> 54:52.602 TRAILNET FOR DOING SUCH A GREAT 54:52.669 --> 54:55.338 JOB OF TOLERATING OUR QUESTIONS. 54:55.405 --> 54:56.873 YOU'RE WELCOME BACK ANYTIME ON 54:56.940 --> 54:57.641 NEXT UP. 54:57.708 --> 54:59.443 THANK YOU AGAIN FOR YOUR 54:59.509 --> 54:59.710 INSIGHTS. 54:59.776 --> 55:01.445 WE APPRECIATE IT AND TO OUR 55:01.511 --> 55:03.213 DONNYBROOK AUDIENCE, WE WILL SEE 55:03.280 --> 55:04.414 YOU AGAIN NEXT THURSDAY NIGHT. 55:04.481 --> 55:06.883 >> WE HOPE TO SEE YOU ON THE 55:06.950 --> 55:09.586 MOONLIGHT RAMBLE AUGUST 21st. 55:09.653 --> 55:11.488 WE'LL BE IN TOWER GROVE. 55:11.555 --> 55:11.822 >> THANK YOU. 55:11.888 --> 55:13.256 >> BYE. 55:13.323 --> 55:13.890 >> Announcer: DONNYBROOK IS MADE 55:13.957 --> 55:14.825 POSSIBLE BY THE SUPPORT OF THE 55:14.891 --> 55:15.926 BETSY AND THOMAS PATTERSON 55:15.992 --> 55:16.993 FOUNDATION AND THE MEMBERS OF 55:17.060 --> 55:20.130 NINE PBS.