If the Loop trolley doesn't get more money from St. Louis County taxpayers, the entire region's federal transit funding could be in jeopardy.
That's the doomsday scenario being claimed in a report from the St. Louis Business Journal this morning. The weekly newspaper reports that Joe Edwards, the man behind the $51 million project, has been asking members of the St. Louis County Council for $500,000, saying the funds are necessary to complete the project.
The old-timey trolley — which would ferry tourists from the Delmar Loop to the Missouri History Museum using anachronistic tracks and overhead lines — has seen costs balloon to $51 million from the original $43 million budget.…