After working hard to claim the title of the nation’s worst transit system, St. Louis Metro got itself into such a financial bind that it had to dramatically cut bus service. So voters naturally responded by tripling the agency’s tax base, giving it another half-cent sales tax on top of the quarter cent it already got.

No doubt Metro will take this money and go build more rail transit lines that go way overbudget and put the agency in a financial bind requiring it to ask the voters for another tax increase. This will be declared another great victory for transit and proof that voters want “livability” rather than more of those filthy automobiles — even though those same voters drive for more than 90 percent of their travel.