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Collection Overview
Title: Bi-State Development Agency Records, 1949-1975
ID: WUA/06/wua00106
Primary Creator: Bi-State Development Agency
Extent: 6.25 Linear Feet
Arrangement:
This collection is divided into three series as follows. Within each series, the files are in original order.
Series 1: General Files
Series 2: Microfilm Holdings
Series 3: Colonel R.E. Smyser, Jr. Personal Files (1960-1972)
Languages: English
Scope and Contents of the Materials
The Bi-State Development Agency Records contain agency files from 1949-1975. This collection deals with public transportation policy and development and includes documents describing the history of Bi-State Development Agency, legislative, financial, planning and proposed development, and administrative files. Newspaper clippings regarding public transportation and Bi-State are also included. Within Col. R.E. Smyser’s personal files are committee minutes, Smyser’s daily journals, various speeches, notes, transit data, and various reports (including accountants’ reports and reports on transit studies).
Collection Historical Note
The Bi-State Development Agency was founded in 1949 through a compact between Missouri and Illinois. Since its founding, the agency has operated the Bi-State Transit System, the Gateway Arch Transportation System, the Granite City Wharf and Terminal, and the Bi-State Parks Airport in Cahokia, Illinois. Bi-State also has served as a planning agency for urban development in the City of St. Louis; the St. Charles, St. Louis, and Jefferson Counties of Missouri; and the St. Clair, Monroe, and Madison Counties of Illinois. Bi-State was the primary force in organizing the meetings and discussions that eventually led to the 1965 founding of the East-West Gateway Coordinating Council.
Today the Agency is best known for maintaining the St. Louis Metropolitan area’s public transportation, which includes MetroLink, MetroBus, and Metro Call-A-Ride transportation systems.
Administrative Information
Repository:
WUA University Archives
Accruals:
There are no accruals.
Access Restrictions:
Open
Use Restrictions:
Users of the collection must read and agree to abide by the rules and procedures set forth in the Materials Use Policies.
Providing access to materials does not constitute permission to publish or otherwise authorize use. All publication not covered by fair use or other exceptions is restricted to those who have permission of the copyright holder, which may or may not be Washington University.
If you wish to publish or license Special Collections materials, please contact Special Collections to inquire about copyright status at (314) 935-5495 or spec@wumail.wustl.edu. (Publish means quotation in whole or in part in seminar or term papers, theses or dissertations, journal articles, monographs, books, digital forms, photographs, images, dramatic presentations, transcriptions, or any other form prepared for a limited or general public.)
Acquisition Method:
This material was donated to the University Archives by Bi-State Development Agency in 1970 and 1979, and by Colonel R.E. Smyser, Jr. on September 6, 1974 and December 31, 1979.
Preferred Citation:
[Item description]. From the [collection title, series, box, folder]. University Archives, Washington University in St. Louis.
Processing Information:
Processed by Christian Frommelt in July 2009.
Finding Aid Revision History:
This finding aid was entered into Archon by Hannah Barg in June 2012.
Box and Folder Listing
Browse by Series:
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Series 1: General Files],
[
Series 2: Microfilm Holdings],
[
Series 3: Colonel R.E. Smyser, Jr. Personal Files (1960-1972)],
[All]
- Series 1: General Files
- (in original order)
- Box 1
- Folder 1: Bi-State History
- Folder 2: McKinley Bridge and Free Bridge: Newspaper Clippings, 1954-1959
- Folder 3: Preliminary Report on Columbia Bottoms Industrial Park
- Folder 4: The St. Louis Industrial Park
- Folder 5: Heartland U.S.A.
- Folder 6: Joint Committee on Governmental Problems, St. Louis and St. Louis County, April 28, 1962
- Folder 7: Legislative File #1, 1949-1950
- Folder 8: Legislative File #2, January 1951-Decemeber 1952
- Folder 9: Legislative File #3, 1953-1954
- Folder 10: Legislation, Missouri, Illinois, and U.S. Congress and Bi-State Bill, 1957-1959
- Folder 11: Missouri Legislature File #2, 1954-1956
- Folder 12: Finances, General
- Folder 13: Finances, Missouri
- Folder 14: Finances, Illinois
- Folder 15: Illinois Appropriations, 1949-1955
- Folder 16: Missouri Appropriations, 1949-1953
- Folder 17: Financial Statements of Bi-State Development Agency as of June 30, 1955
- Series 2: Microfilm Holdings
- Box 1
- Folder 1: Reel One
- Item 1: Newspaper Clippings
- Airport, 1949-1962; Parks Airport to December 31, 1961; Parks Airport, January 1962-September 1, 1962; Columbia Bottoms #1; Columbia Bottoms #2; Bi-State History; Transit Plan #2; Transit Plan #1; McKinley Bridge and Free Bridge, 1954-1959; Planning, Formation of Regional Planning Body, East-West Gateway Coordinating Council, 1963-1964
- Item 2: Speeches, Regional and Interstate Planning #20, Col. Smyser, Conference and Workshop, May 1964 and Air Pollution Conference, January 1963
- Item 3: Speeches, Gateway Arch #19, Col. Smyser. Clayton Rotary Club, June 1966, Engineers' Club, November 1965; Slide Sequence
- Item 4: Speeches, Bi-State Transit System #18, Col. Smyser;
- Includes Electrical Board of Trade, October 1969; American Institute of Chemical Engineers, March 1969; Tempo, April 1968; League of Women Voters, April 1968; Men's Club, Centenary Methodist Church, May 1967; Public Meetings, April 1966; Employment Statistics, February 1966; League of
- Item 5: Women Voters, January 1966; Experience, Incorporated, October 1965; Amalgamated Transit Workers, October 1964; Electrical Board of Trade, November 1963; A.S.C.E., January 1963
- Item 6: Speeches, Bi-State Parks Airport #17, Col. Smyser; Public hearing, November 1964
- Item 7: Speeches, Bi-State, Its Powers, Activities and Role, Col. Smyser;
- Includes Seventh Annual Engineering Conference I.D.A., April 1968; National Association of Bank Auditors, May 1967; Greater St. Louis Federal Business Association, December 1966; Brentwood Junior Chamber of Commerce, April 1964; South West Illinois Council of Mayors, February 1964; St. Louis County Municipal League, October 1963; Wagner Electric, October 1962; S.A.M.E., March 1961; Rotary Club, October 1960
- Item 8: Speeches, Regional Planning, Mr. Belew; Includes A.S.C.E., St. Louis, September 1964
- Item 9: Speeches, Gateway Arch, Mr. Belew;
- Includes Safety Council of Greater St. Louis, June 1967; Traffic Club of St. Louis, March 1967; Illinois Optimist Club, November 1966; Southwest Kiwanis Club, May 1966; Slide Sequence; Draft of first speech, November 1965
- Item 10: Speeches, Bi-State, Its Activities and Role, Mr. Belew;
- Includes American Association of University Women, November 1969; Waterloo Rotary Club, April 1969; Rotary Club of Collinsville; League of Women Voters of North St. Louis County; Clayton High Twelve Club, October 1966
- Item 11: Speeches, Bi-State Agency and Bi-State Parks Airport, Mr. Belew; Rotary Club of East St. Louis
- Item 12: Clippings, Air Pollution, 1966 #1
- Item 13: Clippings, Airport, 1966 #2
- Item 14: Clippings, Bi-State Dock, 1966 #3
- Item 15: Clippings, Gateway Arch, 1966 #5
- Item 16: Clippings, Miscellaneous, 1966 #6
- Item 17: Clippings, Planning, 1966 #7
- Item 18: Clippings, Rapid Transit #8
- Folder 2: Reel Two, Clippings and Minutes of the Board
- Item 1: News clippings File (continued)
- Item 2: Clippings, Transit #9
- Item 3: Clippings, Transit, 1970 #9A
- Item 4: Minutes of the Board of Directors, 1949-1970
- Series 3: Colonel R.E. Smyser, Jr. Personal Files (1960-1972)
- Box 1
- Folder 1: Speeches, Bound Volumes, 1963-1968
- Folder 2: Speeches, 1963-1971, Regional and Interstate Planning
- Folder 3: Speeches, 1963-1971, Gateway Arch
- Folder 4: Speeches, 1963-1971, Bi-State Parks Airport
- Folder 5: Speeches, 1963-1971, Bi-State, Its Powers, Activities and Role
- Folder 6: Speeches, 1963-1971, Transit
- Folder 7: Speeches, 1963-1971, Bi-State Transit System
- Folder 8: Speeches, 1963-1971
- Folder 9: Speeches, 1963-1971, Back-up Material for Speech on Prospects for Rapid Transit in St. Louis, October 14, 1969
- Folder 10: Television and Radio/News Conference, May 20, 1971
- Folder 11: Speeches, Correspondence, 1961-1972
- Folder 12: Committee Minutes, July 1, 1965-December 1966
- Folder 13: Committee Minutes, January 1967-December 1967
- Folder 14: Committee Minutes, January 24, 1968-December 31, 1969
- Folder 15: Committee Minutes, January 14, 1972-June 19, 1972
- Folder 16: Committee Minutes, January 20, 1970-November 18, 1971
- Folder 17: Supplement to St. Louis Metropolitan Area Transportation, Study regarding An Interstate Unified Transit System
- Folder 18: Final Report of the Transit Committee for Presentation to the Board of Commissioners, June 6, 1961
- Folder 19: Second Supplementary Report regarding An Interstate Unified Transit System
- Folder 20: Rerouting and Service Rearrangement Study
- Folder 21: Summary of Rerouting and Service Rearrangement Study
- Folder 22: Study on 1) Acquisition of Consolidated Service Car Company and Elimination of Service Car Operation and 2) Experimental Fare on the Wellston Bus Line
- Folder 23: Downtown Routing Study, St. Louis, Missouri
- Folder 24: Report on Consolidation of Operating Stations for Bi-State Transit System, February 14, 1968
- Folder 25: Rush Hour Roadway Utilization, St. Louis Downtown Area, April 22, 1968
- Folder 26: Summary of Operational and Administrative Procedures, October 1969
- Box 2
- Folder 1: Policies and Procedures, 1963 (includes 1969 Grant Inventory)
- Folder 2: Report on Weekly Passes Used by Bi-State Transit System, Gold, Silver, and Discount, March 1970
- Folder 3: Transit Fiscal Data, Year Ending June 30, 1972
- Folder 4: Transit Fiscal Data, Year Ending February 28, 1971
- Folder 5: Transit Fiscal Data, Fiscal Year 1969
- Folder 6: Transit Fiscal Data, Fiscal Year 1968
- Folder 7: Transit Fiscal Data, 1967
- Folder 8: Transit Fiscal Data, 1966
- Folder 9: Bi-State Transit Fiscal Data, 1965
- Folder 10: Bi-State Transit Fiscal Data, 1964
- Folder 11: Bi-State Transit Fiscal Data, 1963
- Folder 12: Preliminary Report on Operations, April 1-November 30, 1963
- Folder 13: Report on Tentative Operating and Capital Budgets for Bi-State Transit System, Fiscal Year 1968-1969
- Folder 14: Amended Operating and Capital Budgets for Bi-State Transit System, Fiscal Year 1969-1970, April 30, 1969
- Folder 15: Report on Tentative Operating and Capital Budget for Bi-State Transit System, Fiscal Year 1970-1971
- Folder 16: Report on Tentative Operating and Capital Budget for Bi-State Transit System, Fiscal Year 1971-1972
- Folder 17: Report on Tentative Operating and Capital Budget, Bi-State Transit System, Fiscal Year 1972-1973
- Folder 18: Report on Budget, Fiscal Year ending February 28, 1965
- Folder 19: Report on Budget, Fiscal Year ending February 28, 1966
- Folder 20: Report on Budget, Fiscal Year ending February 28, 1967
- Folder 21: Report on Budget, Fiscal Year ending February 29, 1968
- Box 3
- Folder 1: Annual Operating Report, Fiscal Year 1972-1973
- Folder 2: Annual Operating Report, Fiscal Year 1970-1971
- Folder 3: Annual Operating Report, Fiscal Year 1969-1970
- Folder 4: Annual Operating Report, March 1, 1968-February 28, 1969, January 29, 1969
- Folder 5: Annual Report on Operations, Fiscal Year 1967-1968
- Folder 6: Annual Report on Operations, January 27, 1967
- Folder 7: Annual Report on Operations, 1965, January 31, 1966
- Folder 8: Annual Report on Operations, 1964, January 22, 1965
- Folder 9: Trust Indenture, March 1, 1963
- Folder 10: Financial Statements and Supplementary Data, June 30, 1971 (with Accountants' Report Theorem)
- Folder 11: Financial Statements and Supplementary Data, June 30, 1970, Accountants' Report
- Folder 12: Financial Statements and Supplementary Data, June 30, 1969, Accountants' Report
- Folder 13: Financial Statements and Supplementary Report, June 30, 1968, Accountants' Report
- Folder 14: Balance Sheet for Published Report, June 30, 1967, Accountants' Report
- Folder 15: Financial Statements and Supplementary Data, June 30, 1967, Accountants' Report
- Folder 16: Financial Statements and Supplementary Data, June 30, 1966, Accountant's Report
- Folder 17: Financial Statements and Supplementary Data, June 30, 1965, Accountant's Report
- Folder 18: Financial Statements and Supplementary Data, June 30, 1964, Accountants' Report
- Folder 19: Financial Statements and Supplementary Data, June 30, 1963, Accountants' Report
- Folder 20: Financial Statements and Supplementary Data, June 30, 1962, Accountants' Report
- Folder 21: Financial Statements and Supplementary Data, June 30, 1961, Accountants' Report
- Folder 22: Financial Statements and Supplementary Data, June 30, 1960, Accountants' Report
- Folder 23: Statement of Cash Receipts and Disbursements, June 30, 1962, Accountants' Report, Bi-State Transit Fund
- Folder 24: Financial Statements and Statement of Cash Receipts and Disbursements, February 28, 1971 (with Accountants' Report Theoren), Transit System
- Folder 25: Accountants' Report, Financial Statements, February 28, 1970, Transit System
- Folder 26: Financial Statements and Statement of Cash Receipts and Disbursements, February 28, 1969, Accountants' Report, Transit System
- Folder 27: Accountants' Report, Financial Statements, February 29, 1968, Transit System
- Folder 28: Financial Statements and Statement of Cash Receipts and Disbursements, February 29, 1968, Accountants' Report, Transit System
- Folder 29: Accountants' Report, Financial Statements, February 28, 1967, Transit System
- Folder 30: Financial Statements and Statement of Cash Receipts and Disbursements, February 28, 1966, Accountants' Report, Transit System
- Folder 31: Accountants' Report, Financial Statements, February 28, 1965, Transit System
- Folder 32: Accountants' Report, Financial Statements, February 29, 1964, Transit System
- Folder 33: Gateway Arch Transportation Facilities Fund, Accountants' Report, Financial Statements, June 30, 1964
- Folder 34: Gateway Arch Transportation Facilities Fund, Accountants' Report, Financial Statement, June 30, 1963
- Folder 35: Trust Indenture, March 1, 1963
- Folder 36: Letter from Guilfoil, Symington, and Petzall to Bi-State regarding Duties and Liabilities of Bi-State Commissioners under Covenants of the 1963 Revenue Bonds Trust Indenture, June 23, 1971
- Folder 37: Amendatory Trust Indenture, Dated as of July 1, 1971
- Folder 38: Bi-State Parks Airport, Leases
- Folder 39: Funding Plans, Parks Airport Working File
- Folder 40: National Transit Legislation, 1970-1972
- Folder 41: Data regarding Appropriation, State of Illinois, 1969-1970
- Folder 42: Data regarding Appropriation, State of Illinois, 1967-1968
- Folder 43: Data regarding Appropriation, State of Missouri, 1968 Special Session, 1969-1971
- Folder 44: Data regarding Appropriation, State of Missouri, 1969-1971
- Folder 45: Data regarding Legislation and Appropriations, State of Missouri, 1972
- Folder 46: An Interim Plan to Improve Transit Service in St. Louis, September 1968
- Folder 47: Transit Development Program, 1969-1975, August 1969
- Folder 48: Transit Improvement Program, 1971-1975, January 1971
- Box 4
- Folder 1: Regional Planning
- Folder 2: Airport Authority, Metropolitan
- Folder 3: Second Air Carrier Airport
- Folder 4: Modifications, Bi-State Board (Proposals and Studies)
- Folder 5: Air Traffic Data
- Folder 6: Parks Airport, pre-1965 Data
- Folder 7: Grain Elevator
- Folder 8: Illinois versus Bi-State, Miscellaneous Memoranda
- Folder 9: Bi-State Administrative Costs
- Folder 10: Transit Notes and Press Releases
- Folder 11: Transit Notes
- Folder 12: Special Report for Missouri State Joint Legislative Committee
- Folder 13: Preliminary Feasibility Study, Proposed Crystal City-Harrisonville Mississippi River Bridge
- Folder 14: Report on TSC Management of Bi-State Transit System, September 1, 1967
- Folder 15: Transit Working Papers
- Folder 16: Transit #3 Working File, General Financial Data (All 15 Companies)
- Folder 17: St. Louis Public Service, Working Papers and Memos
- Folder 18: Extract, DOT Study-Transit Aid
- Folder 19: Kansas City Area Transportation Authority (KCATA), Miscellaneous
- Folder 20: Data for City of St. Louis
- Folder 21: Transit Funding, Missouri
- Folder 22: Capital Grants, Applications
- Folder 23: Rapid Transit Funds for Preliminary Engineering
- Folder 24: Rapid Transit, Proposals and Contracts
- Folder 25: Reduced Fares for Senior Citizens
- Folder 26: Press Clippings in Support of Public Transit
- Folder 27: East St. Louis Demands
- Folder 28: Air Pollution, Diesel Engines
- Folder 29: Student Fares
- Folder 30: Transit Data, Miscellaneous
- Folder 31: Fare Increase, 1970
- Folder 32: Service Car Data, 1971
- Folder 33: Bi-State Parks Airport
- Folder 34: Racial Discrimination Charges
- Folder 35: Rapid Transit, East-West Gateway Coordinating Council (EWGCC) versus Bi-State, 1968-1972
- Folder 36: Gateway Arch
- Folder 37: Reports, Consolidated Service Car Operations, October 28, 1965
- Folder 38: Report on Value of Business to Bi-State Transit System, May 11, 1966
- Folder 39: Local Aeronautical Chart, 1967
- Box 5
- Folder 1: Smyser's Daily Journal, Book No. 1, September 19, 1960 September 30, 1961
- Folder 2: Smyser's Daily Journal, Book No. 2, October 1, 1961-May 31, 1962
- Folder 3: Smyser's Daily Journal, Book No. 3, June 1, 1962-March 31, 1963
- Folder 4: Smyser's Daily Journal, Book No. 4, April 1, 1963-December 31, 1963
- Folder 5: Smyser's Daily Journal, Book No. 5, January 1, 1964-March 31, 1965
- Folder 6: Smyser's Daily Journal, Book No. 6, April 1, 1965-December 31, 1965
- Folder 7: Smyser's Daily Journal, Book No. 7, January 1, 1966-January 31, 1967
- Folder 8: Smyser's Daily Journal, Book No. 8, February 1, 1967-December 31, 1968
- Folder 9: Smyser's Daily Journal, Book No. 9, January 1, 1969-December 31, 1970
- Folder 10: Smyser's Daily Journal, Book No. 10, January 4, 1971-July12, 1971
- Folder 11: Cooperative Agreement, Jefferson National Expansion Memorial
- Folder 12: Leases and Operating Agreements, Granite City (G.C.) Wharf and Terminal
- Folder 13: Old Post Office
- Folder 14: Memorandum Report Concerning Possible Development of the Parks Metropolitan Airport, October 1962
- Folder 15: Traffic and Earnings Report, Parks Metropolitan Airport, Landrum and Brown, Cincinnati, Ohio
- Folder 16: Should a Metropolitan Airport Authority be Established for the St. Louis Area? June 1968
- Folder 17: St. Louis Area Land Use and Transportation Planning Program, Existing Transit Service April 1968
- Folder 18: Report on Compatible Land Use of Airport Property, June 1971
- Folder 19: Rapid Transit Feasibility Study Long-Range Program, August 1971
- Folder 20: Rapid Transit Feasibility Study Long-Range Program, Supplemental Report, August 1971
- Folder 21: Rapid Transit Feasibility Study Summary
- Folder 22: SLACOG, An Analysis . . . A Phoenix Fund Study, November 1, 1974
- Folder 23: St. Louis Metropolitan Area Mass Transportation Study, Phase I Report, Analysis of Existing Transit System
- Folder 24: St. Louis Metropolitan Area Rapid Transit Feasibility Study, Phase II Report, Alternative Transit Systems
- Folder 25: St. Louis Metropolitan Area Rapid Transit Feasibility Study, Summary Report, Alternative Transit System
- Folder 26: St. Louis Metropolitan Area Rapid Transit Feasibility Study, Phase IIIA Report, July 1970
- Folder 27: St. Louis Metropolitan Area Rapid Transit Feasibility Study, Phase IIIA Summary Report, March 1970
Browse by Series:
[
Series 1: General Files],
[
Series 2: Microfilm Holdings],
[
Series 3: Colonel R.E. Smyser, Jr. Personal Files (1960-1972)],
[All]
