motorcitycane
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My family has lived in the Lou for over 100 years. The city used to have a nice cable-car system which allowed for people to get around the city without cars, much like New Orleans. ****, the original Ted Drewes was right off of a cable-car stop.
Then the oil companies paid to shut down cable-car systems in a number of cities, including St. Louis. The city started moving towards a busing system, and then coupled with desegregation and racial strife, the white middle-class/upper-class moved out to the suburbs. Most of the City of St. Louis hasn't been the same since. There's a couple of nice spots, and downtown is starting to make a comeback, but most of the people with decent income live in St. Louis County, which is why I've been hoping that they merge the city and county.
Isn’t that what the Texas cities did? They kind of annexed suburban areas to increase the population of the “city proper” back in the day.
More cities should go that route IMO.