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09.18.2009 5:17 pm

Grab a brush, paint a bus

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Artists and wanna-be-artists will have the chance to paint a Metro bus on Sept. 26.

From noon to 2 p.m., a bus will serve as a canvas at the 2009 Green Homes Festival at 3617 Grandel Square, in the theater district off of Grand Boulevard. It…

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08.21.2009 4:23 pm

LaHood: transit growing in priority

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

If he backs his words with money, transit will be getting more federal funds in the next few years. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said today that buses and trains need to be given greater priority in the transportation mix. This should…

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07.17.2009 1:51 pm

Signs signal return of bus service

St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Metro sign worker Rickey Smith puts up one of the new signs on the mporarily restored metro bus lines Friday morning.

Metro sign worker Rickey Smith puts up one of the new signs on the mporarily restored metro bus lines Friday morning.

The bus drivers and mechanics have been recalled, and now the green signs are going up. Several Metro employees spent…

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06.26.2009 5:50 pm

Changes in store for bus riders

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Metro will be restoring and adding bus routes on Aug. 3. Click on Metro plan to read the details:

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05.22.2009 11:06 pm

Metro plans to restore service

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Thanks to $12 million in federal stimulus funds from Missouri (and the expected signature of Gov. Jay Nixon), Metro plans to restore a third of the service it cut in March.  The restoration will be on bus service and Call-A-Ride.…

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03.31.2009 3:45 pm

Nixon ‘concerned’ about St. Louis transit cuts

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon said he’s concerned about the deep transit cuts Metro was forced to roll out on Monday, saying the effects will be felt in the local economy.

Following a speech to Boeing Co. workers near Lambert-St. Louis International Airport today,…

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02.20.2009 9:57 am

Metro begins covering ’suspended’ bus stops

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Metro transit crews today will begin placing vinyl signs over 2,300 bus stops where service will be suspended starting on March 30.

The crews were expected to begin their work in downtown St. Louis just after 10 a.m.  today. Covering all the signs at…

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02.18.2009 7:07 pm

Price of Call-A-Ride to soar for some

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

When red-white-and-blue Metro buses stop rolling to parts of the St. Louis region, it will leave members of the disabled community without a cost-effective means of transportation.

Metro transit leaders broke that news to 75 people who gathered at Paraquad offices on Oakland Avenue…

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02.09.2009 4:08 pm

2,300 Metro bus stops to get covered

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Metro will soon begin covering signs at 2,300 bus stops with notices that buses will no longer stop there after the March 30 service cuts.The vinyl sign covers that will be placed at one-fourth of the agency’s 9,000 bus stops…

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11.19.2008 4:41 pm

Grand opening at the new train station

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

The multi-colored Gateway Transportation Center is now buzzing with bus and train passengers. A grand opening will be held at 10:45 a.m. Friday at the station, just south of the Scottrade Center on South 15th Street. There will be drawings for travel vouchers…

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