Robert Baer
If the region started now to plan for the next MetroLink expansion, eight years may pass before the new segment opens, Metro officials say.
And under questioning from from St. Louis County Councilman Greg Quinn, R-Ballwin, Metro President Robert Baer said it…
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…
Most rides went smoothly. A few went not so smoothly.
In restoring about half of the bus service it cut in March, Metro put 87 buses on the street that have been sitting in storage. The bus I rode this 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…
Metro will be restoring and adding bus routes on Aug. 3. Click on Metro plan to read the details:
Warnings went up Friday on MetroBus shelters carrying alcohol ads in St. Louis and St. Louis County.
Metro acknowledged last week that ads for Colt 45 malt liquor, which went up earlier this month, should have had disclaimers under the transit agency’s new advertising policy. Other…
Thursday is Dump the Pump Day — the national effort to get people out of their cars and on public transportation. Transit agencies nationwide will be promoting buses and light trail. Other groups will be promoting bicycling and walking.
In St. Louis,…
Metro has posted on its website which routes will return/be created/get more buses later this summer when the transit agency begins spending $12 million in stimulus funds. Missouri legislators approved the funding last month. The bill awaits Gov. Jay Nixon’s signature.
On Friday, Metro officials…
If all goes as planned, Metro will restore more bus and Call-A-Ride service in August than the agency initially announced last month. The trade off: the restored routes won’t last as long. Today transit officials unveiled a revised proposal of how to spend $12 million in federal stimulus…
Extra trains will run to get all these people to and from downtown.
Extra MetroLink trains will run Saturday to help the tens of thousands of runners and walkers get downtown for the Race for the Cure.
But wait, you say.…
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