Metro is getting ready to replace the crumbling bridge that carries MetroLink tracks over Vandeventer Boulevard in St. Louis.
The $5 million replacement project will require shutting MetroLink in that section for about…
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…
Jamming several hundred strangers into a small space is an excellent way to spread the flu. All it takes is one powerful sneeze and a few germy hands. The American Red Cross also sees stations as good places to educate St. Louisans about the…
Baseball fans planning to take MetroLink downtown today to All-Star Game festivities might have trouble parking. But they shouldn’t have trouble getting a train home.
As of 2:30 p.m., several MetroLink parking lots — at the Delmar, North Hanley, Forest Park, Shrewsbury, Belleville…
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…
Yeah, it’s been downsized and - some say - woefully underfunded. But St. Louis’ embattled public transportation system was recognized on MSN City Guides’ list titled “10 cities with great transit.”
The list, compiled by Jonathan Hiskes and Katharaine Wroth of Grist, included this take on St. Louis’…
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.…
Reeking elevators is a perennial problem for Metro. People seem to confuse them for urinals, making the stench overwhelming. Metro officials say their elevators are sanitized twice a day. You wouldn’t know it by taking the elevator at the Grand Boulevard station, which always…
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