Here's Your Warning..

I want this commentary to serve as a warning. Don’t ever take the St. Louis Metrolink to Busch Stadium for a Cardinal game, or to Lambert Field or any other St. Louis area location. It’s just not safe.

I have my own personal experiences on the light rail system, and they are very disturbing.  I took my wife and in-laws to a Cardinal game and decided to save on parking by jumping on the Metrolink at Scott Air Force Base.

What a disaster.

The way over the river was fine. But the trip back was absolutely hellish.  You have to get in a human crush of people to squeeze yourself into a highly over crowded car..Then you witness how ineffective the police are…

A cop approached a vagrant who was obviously using the seat across from us as a place to safely sleep in air conditioned air. The vagrant wasn’t going to leave without a fight. And remarkably, the cop backed off. Yes. He turned and walked away. That left us to sit next to an angry person with no place to go.

Google Metrolink and the word violence and you can watch video of people being assaulted on line.

One of my best friends lost his son, who was assaulted and killed while waiting for a Metolink train.

The list of arrests associated with this form of mass transit is long and quite honestly, the leaders in St. Louis have no idea how to stop it.

And that’s why I am warning you. Don’t make the same mistake I made.

Don’t be cheap like me. Park in one of the stadium garages. Take the Redbird Express bus line from St. Clair Square…anything but Metrolink.

I’m not kidding. Your life might depend on it.