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Metro Transit is looking for energetic, reliable, responsible and safe drivers to join the MetroBus team as part-time operators. A Job Fair to identify interested candidates will be held on Saturday, June 1, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the MetroBus Central Facility located at 3300 Spruce Street, near Compton and Market Streets in [...]

The Board of Commissioners of the Bi-State Development Agency/Metro (BSDA/Metro) has approved a $306.3 million operating budget and $442.9 million (3 year) capital budget for Fiscal Year 2014 (FY2014).  The FY2014 budget allocates resources to run the transit system and all enterprises for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2013 with a 3.7 percent increase [...]

Without a Dispatch Center, a bus transit system cannot function efficiently. So, for this week’s Flashback Friday I wanted to highlight the folks behind the scenes of the bus operation in St. Louis. In this photo from the Museum of Transportation, you can see an unidentified St. Louis company’s Dispatcher’s office in 1946. According to [...]

We are very happy to announce that Chelsey Brooks has joined Metro Transit as our new Social Media Manager. For the last year and a half, she has been managing KREM-TV’s website in Spokane, Washington. Chelsey developed and built mobile apps, managed all the station’s social media, and appeared on a regular basis in newscasts [...]

Richard Zott is the new Chief of Metro’s Department of Public Safety. He joined Metro three and a half months ago. Prior to Metro, he was the Special Agent in Charge of the Central Field Office in St. Louis for the Defense Criminal Investigative Service (DCIS) which is part of the U.S. Department of Defense. [...]

When I first came to Metro in 2007, I wasn’t sure what I would be doing day to day, but I was excited to have an opportunity to make a difference in St. Louis. For the last five years at Metro, and the last three years here on NextStop, I have had the privilege to [...]

We’re proud to share with you that Metro’s Finance Division has received a prestigious award for the 16th consecutive year! It is the Certificate of Achievement for Excellence in Financial Reporting (CAFR) award from the Government Finance Officers Association of the United States and Canada (GFOA). “We were delighted to get the news that our [...]

Metro employees prove their commitment to communities in the region every day, serving as operators, mechanics, public safety officers and many other workers who bring public transit to St. Louis. In recent years, we’ve had several employees who have come to the aid of those in very dire situations. Another Metro employee responded at the [...]

Metro Transit led the nation in the first quarter of 2012 with the largest increase in bus ridership among transit agencies, according to the American Public Transit Association (APTA).  St. Louis is on board with transit, with bus ridership increasing 15.6% in January, February and March and placing on APTA’s top ten list of light [...]

Metro Call-A-Ride Van Operator Dale Dean doesn’t consider himself a hero. A humble man with strong faith, he just considers himself blessed to have been there to help. But Berkeley resident Dorothy Dixon considers Dean her hero. In February, Dean was dropping off a passenger when he saw Dixon’s house on fire, and rushed to [...]