The Loop Trolley will keep rolling along, after local politicians voted to provide more than $1 million in federal grant money for the rail line.
St. Louis County Executive Sam Page was among those voting for the deal on the East-West Gateway Council of Governments.
"No one here is a fan of the Loop Trolley," Page said. "But it's a plan that I inherited, it's a deal that previous administrations made, and when you make a deal with the federal government they expect you to keep it."
Board of Aldeman President Joe Vollmer said the city finds itself in an obligation.
"The whole discussion about the Loop trolley is someone's dream who apparently didn't get a toy train set when they were a child, and we've kind of had to pay the price for it."
St. Louis Mayor Tishaura Jones also voted yes, saying she didn't want to hurt the region's chances of getting future federal money for light rail expansion.
"I don't think that this is the time to piss the federal government off when they ask us to get this thing that nobody really likes up and running, or at least try," Jones said.
The trolley is now running four days a week, Thursday through Sundays from the History Museum in Forest Park to the Delmar Loop.
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