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Attention, armchair planners: Now is your chance to help guide future development in the St. Louis region! As one of 11 stakeholder agencies partnering with East-West Gateway Council of Governments on the development of a Regional Plan for Sustainable Development, Metro is playing a key role in helping stakeholders craft strategies for encouraging Transit-Oriented Development [...]

It’s time again for a Grand MetroLink Station project update, don’t you think? The mild weather we’ve been having has been a boon, but no construction project ever counts on the fine weather to last forever. So let’s talk about the project status element by element: The Platform: The platform is very close to being [...]

You know those “Progress as Promised” signs you sometimes see at big construction projects? Well, this blog post is Metro’s “progress as promised” sign on the Grand station project. If you ride MetroLink past the closed Grand stop, you may have noticed a lot of work progressing on the new park-ride lot. “Great,” you might [...]

NextStop is currently experiencing issues with our blog “theme” – the skin we use to make our site pretty & functional. The problem is a validation key that has to be recognized by the theme’s servers – their servers are down, so our theme doesn’t show up. In the meantime, we’re just switching “themes” so [...]

Remember how we told you, back in March, that the Grand MetroLink Station is about to see some major improvements when the City of St. Louis takes down the Grand Avenue bridge? That project is getting very close to starting now – the City believes construction (or rather, demolition) will begin in February or March [...]

Early this morning, thieves smashed and ruined the entire front of the Earlean’s Cafe in East St. Louis, Illinois at the Emerson Park MetroLink Station. What do you say to someone when their livelihood is smashed, strewn across the pavement before their eyes? Metro – that is to say, the Bi-State Development Agency – lists [...]

In the next few months, MetroLink riders in Missouri will have a warmer experience taking the train. Starting next week, a number of Missouri MetroLink platforms without heaters will have them installed.  Shrewsbury, Clayton, North Hanley, Delmar Loop, Central West End, and Civic Center Stations were part of the first phase of heater installations.  The [...]

The folks who work on the MetroLink system – who inspect the tunnels, bridges, and tracks and generally keep everything running – work long, crazy hours (note the date/time stamp on the photo below!) but they do get to see things from a point of view that the rest of us will never get to [...]

In the next two years, Metro is currently working on a technologically advanced and easy-to-use electronic Smart Card fare system. A new computer system will be installed to make this exciting Smart Card system work.  As part this project, Metro will either retrofit or replace its aging and outdated fareboxes and ticket vending machines, which [...]

Metro and our partners at the St. Clair County Transit District are working to extend the bike trail network serving St. Clair County, Illinois, providing additional multi-modal options. Thanks to funding from St. Clair County Transit District and federal funds, a new leg of the bike trail will be constructed to extend the trail that [...]