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Downtown St. Louis will be hopping again tonight with Game 4 of the NLDS taking place at Busch Stadium. The Cardinals are in a must-win situation and with game time shortly after 5:00 tonight, fans have been descending on downtown all afternoon. Some Cards fans avoided the traffic and parking hassles last night and took MetroLink to [...]

Evening and late night MetroLink operations will be modified every night this week through Sunday night so crews can upgrade the light rail system at the East Riverfront MetroLink Station. Starting at 8 p.m. tonight through Sunday night through the end of service, Blue Line trains will only operate between the Shrewsbury MetroLink Station and the [...]

Enjoy the cooler weather and spend some time outdoors this weekend.  As promised, find below the list of the proposed MetroBus stops under consideration for removal for the following routes: #04 Natural Bridge #48 South Lindbergh These stops are being proposed for elimination as part of Metro’s Bus Stop Evaluation Program to make the system more [...]

Thousands of St. Louis area residents look forward every year to attending the Great Forest Park Balloon Glow and Race. The Balloon Glow is tonight and the Race will be held tomorrow.  The Balloon Glow will take place on the east side of Forest Park at Central Field. It is a walk through only event. You cannot drive through the [...]

David Morita is joining Metro as the new Vice President of Sales and Marketing.  Mr. Morita will lead the marketing efforts for Metro Transit as well as the Agency’s tourism and hospitality businesses. He will assume his new role on September 19. Mr. Morita brings more than 20 years of domestic and international advertising, sales [...]

Weekend MetroLink customers, convention participants, Forest Park visitors, and concert-goers should allow extra time for their MetroLink commutes this weekend due to construction activity. Starting at 8 p.m. on this Friday, September 16 through 4:30 a.m. on Monday, September 19, MetroLink will operate on a special construction schedule to accommodate work crews east of the [...]

Metro is in the process of forming a new Citizen Advisory Group that will provide another channel of communication between Metro Transit customers and Metro leaders on public transit issues in the community.  The Citizen Advisory Group will be comprised of volunteers from the community who will be selected through an application process.   Citizen Advisors [...]

Hope everyone has a great weekend. As promised, find below the lists of the proposed MetroBus stops under consideration for removal for the following routes: #49 North Lindbergh #94 Page These stops are being proposed for elimination as part of Metro’s Bus Stop Evaluation Program to make the system more efficient and faster. Please submit [...]

MetroLink service will be temporarily disrupted on Saturday, August 20, 2011, due to construction work on the Interstate 64 Bridge over MetroLink near the Illinois MetroLink rail yard in East St. Louis. Both Red Line and Blue Line customers will be shuttled by bus between the Emerson Park and Fairview Heights MetroLink Stations from start [...]

Because of my civic duty, I’m going to be unavailable this week on the blog. But don’t worry, my friends at Metro will be monitoring Facebook and Twitter. See you next week!